Austin Sound

When he moved to Austin last year, Ryan Goeller brought with him a unique label that consisted primarily of Hip-Hop artists from Holland, an unlikely sound finding an even more unlikely home in central Texas. Beats Broke was the first label to release Dutch rap albums in the US, and the music of artists like Kapabel & Inf and Arts the Beatdoctor translates with impressive style despite the language barrier and has already been embraced in Austin and by a growing contingency nationally for adding a new energy to the genre. You can download Beats Broke’s first release (Kapabel & Inf’s De Avonturen van…) for free on the label’s website to get a taste of the Continental flavor, and look out for a number of new albums in the next year as Goeller continues to expand the scope of our small town from the inside out.

2/8/08
Now here’s something you likely haven’t heard before: Hip-Hop from the Netherlands. New label Beats Broke just started up here in Austin last year, and while we’re not sure exactly what what their connection is to Dutch beatmasters, they’re releasing a string of albums that have never appeared stateside. Most recently Beats Broke has offered up Dutch duo Kapabel and Inf’s De Avonturen van, which we assume means “The Adventures of.”

Though we have no idea exactly what they’re rapping about, it’s some pretty tight stuff.