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Fatsouls Records
50 releases tracked from 2007 · 46 producers · latest sep 2026
Scene: Soulful house
9 tracks · 7 charting artists · 14 days on genre charts per track, on average · on the charts since Jul 2026 · active
Founded in 2007 by Said Adelekan, San Francisco-based Fatsouls Records aims to help maintain the integrity of house music. The label is also the driving force behind local events like Atmosfere and Essence of Sound.
◢ what the catalogue measures
sound
52% one genreAfro House, then Soulful House and Deep House
52% of the 50 releases we can tag · 7 of the last 12 we could tag
tempo
±2 BPM124 BPM typical, 121–125 across four in five releases
50 of 50 releases carry a tempo reading
chart tier
no tier35 chart entries
chart entries per record since July; 3 bars = most; no tier = no charts or under 10 records/yr
career stage
11.6 yrs medianProducers here had a median 11.6 years of releases before their first record on the label
across 8 producers whose earlier history we can follow
first records
last debut
1 month ago
new here Muzungu (Sep) · Ardio Zemog (Jun)
format
55% solo/duoSolo and duo records alongside multi-artist releases
counting compilations too, 29 of 53 · 3 various-artists compilations
◢ how often the roster changes
2
new names a year
averaged over the last 24 months, counting producers whose earlier history we can trace
4 of 9
get a second record
producers who debuted here over a year ago
4.5
releases a year
9 records in 24 months
◢ first records here, by year
Grey counts releases that year. Full colour counts producers whose first record on this label falls in that year — including producers with no traceable earlier history, a wider population than the per-year rate above.
◢ on the charts, week by week
new entries
week of 12 oct: 3 new entries · 0 top-20 placements · avg rank ▲ 5.8 places
pathDefected Records, Open Bar Music +4 → Fatsouls Records → Manuscript Records Ukraine6 before · 1 afterpath into
Fatsouls RecordsDefected Records5Open Bar Music5POJI Records4Club Session3Fatsouls RecordsManuscript Records Ukraine36 before · 1 after ↓◢ path into Fatsouls Recordswhere Fatsouls Records artists released before and after
close ↑
01 · before · artists released here first
- Defected Recordstier 15 artists
- Open Bar Musictier 15 artists
- POJI Recordstier 14 artists
- Club Sessionno tier3 artists
- MoBlack Recordstier 13 artists
- Offering Recordingstier 33 artists
show all 6 ↓show fewer ↑
02 · this label
Fatsouls Records
03 · after · released here next
- Manuscript Records Ukrainetier 23 artists
each count = artists here who also released there, out of 21 traced
also releasing on (shared artists): Merecumbe Recordings (4), Nervous Records (4), Pasqua Records (4), ENSOULED (3), M2SOUL Music (3), Quantize Recordings (3), unquantize (3)
7 producers here have released on no other label we track, of 46
◢ who's on it
8 artists charted on this label in the last 8 weeks · 11 have pages here
sending a demo
- Merecumbe Recordings (4), Nervous Records (4) and Pasqua Records (4) share producers with this roster in the same period.
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