Austin Chronicle Feature
The Austin Chronicle has a small feature on Beats Broke this week. As it turns out, Americans love Holland for more than it’s wooden shoes and hash bars…
Heres’s the scoop:
Kapabel & Inf
For the Love of the Game
Perhaps even stranger than the notion of Dutch hip-hop is that it made its American debut here in Austin via local imprint Beats Broke Records with last year’s release of Kapabel & Inf’s De Avonturen van. “The Dutch don’t get so bogged down with the commercialism of it all,” prefaces label head and Nebraska transplant Ryan Goeller, who discovered the little-known genre through his association with rapper Max Fischer. “It reminds me of the golden era of hip-hop in the Eighties, before all of the skits and shout-outs started coming in.” On Tuesday the label extends its global reach with the release of Progressions, a DJ Shadow-esque 7-inch EP from the Utrecht, Netherlands-based Arts the Beatdoctor. “Dutch is kind of a bastard language, very harsh and guttural, but a little bit romantic like French,” offers Goeller. “There’s a feeling to it that’s just as interesting as the music itself.”
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fame… should of been a picture of ryan.