Fort Ancient Records

10/10/2019

Original words on this dope review of Unfortunately, written by Scratched Vinyl.

Hip Hop Reviews

23/09/2019

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nqg5ln1m6P928RmF1BsQYXkbzWlsUIpqU

13/09/2019

It's football season again. This is a reminder that Fort Ancient is First Team All City with Waldo From Cincinnati Dren AD Phonophage Samuel Steezmore Homage - CVG GrandAce Olivia Noel Nicholas Xzela Cartaya Talison Monty C. Benjamin Devin Burgess D-Eight and Habi Beaux with the cover art! Not new, but still dope!

https://open.spotify.com/album/58gTiCm7jnOZ2alv8oCcp7

First Team, an album by First Team on Spotify

31/08/2019

NEW ALBUM ALERT!!!

Unfortunately by Homage - CVG available on all digital platforms.

Homage CVG · Album · 2019 · 18 songs.

25/08/2019

The new album Unfortunately by Homage - CVG drops Friday at noon! Here are some words from the artist himself about the album:

WORDS FROM THE ARTIST:

Unfortunately is a celebration of disappointment. After all, overcoming it is the only actual test of life. A strikeout in the bottom of the ninth, a dropped ice cream cone, cancer: it’s all a varying degree of the same feeling. There are shades of disappointment, degrees. These days for me, it has been between "unfortunately, we have decided to move on with more qualified candidates" to "unfortunately, your foster baby will be returning to her drug-addicted mother next week". This album represents a time when the word seemed to be echoed in chorus to me, crushingly so at times. Rather than internalize the feelings of despair and hopelessness I felt, I wanted to showcase the inherent human quality of disappointment and all the flexible ways it is delivered to us.

We use the word to preface bad news, like being given something course to bite on while the old western doctor fishes around your innards for the missing bullet somewhere in there. It’s a coping device, a weighted blanket over sadness. But it doesn’t prevent the scarring or the sighs that go on a little too long. Or the listless days of ignoring housework and friends in favor of sitting on the couch for hours and staring at the art on the wall that came with the house when we bought it. One piece is a landscape print of a rustic barn with thunderclouds thickening in the distance. The rural valley in the painting waits for the rain to come, unable to move, but does its best to stay upright. That’s all we can do too, and that is what this album is about.

24/07/2019

Another Homage - CVG banger drops next month!

19/07/2019

We have some pretty rad shirts.

30/06/2019

Spotify playlist with over 180 Fort Ancient Records tracks! Follow us!

FORT ANCIENT RECORDS · Playlist · 318 songs · 10 likes

28/05/2019

NEW RELEASE:
MONTREAL featuring guest pilot Homage - CVG, available where digital music is consumed!

https://fortancientrecords.bandcamp.com/album/montreal

18/05/2019

ABOUT US:

Fort Ancient Records provides an auditory aesthetic unlike most listening experiences. There is narrative, setting and thematic elements in nearly everything we touch. And despite the large volume of production within the pages of our catalog, our work is not a rushed process devoid of thought and planning; It is meticulously crafted to the highest of standards and with the utmost of patience.

This music is a Cincinnati product--a locally-made good--and we constantly represent our hometown. The layered samples and the boom-bap drums that define our personal culture and upbringing are always right up front in our sound. This is the sound of the end of the 20th Century; we know it because we were there. it will all die out in time, but for now it's worth keeping in our mind and in our ears.

12/05/2019

In lieu of our first international flight, we dug up this vintage Super 8 mm film for you to enjoy. Full EP drops in a couple of weeks.

Fort Ancient Airlines releases its fifth beat-tape flight, this time internationally to Montreal. Full EP out June 2019.