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Beatropolis

June 4th @ Rickshaw Stop

About Me



Gazing forward; quasars pulse, hover cars hum. Pondering back; sounds from distant diasporas, beats from the streets. Beatropolis' heady mix of dope beats, edgy hooks, and delicious vocals drives a concoction of drum-n-bass, downtempo, and hip hop.

Click here to purchase our new album A LIFE IN COLOR - featuring Shing02, Audio Angel, MC Ax!oM, and more:

Click here to purchace copies of our first cd -DROP:

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/31/2005
Band Website: beatropolis.net
Band Members: Audio Angel
Ben Axiom
Chris Horgan
Christian Runge
Yoshi Sako

Collaborators:
Evan Francis (Space Heater)
David Boyce aka Black Edgar (Broun Fellinis)

Influences: Tortoise, LTJ Bukem, Roni Size, Portishead, Kruder and Dorfmeister

Sounds Like: You tell us!
Record Label: Triple C Music
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Yoshi interviewed in Japanese Newspaper - Nichi Bei Times

Watch out kidz - our own Yoshi Sako is gettin all metaphysical and shit. Apparently the best in this world comes from the heart and not the brain...Yoshi Sako - Interview The Beauty of Beatropolis Fro...
Posted by Beatropolis on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:44:00 PST

Mea Culpa

Well we made a BIG mistake! We forgot to thank/credit some of the amazing musicians that worked on our last cd. This was not intentional, and certainly is NOT the way we want to thank the people we've...
Posted by Beatropolis on Tue, 15 Jan 2008 04:38:00 PST

BEATROPOLIS interview for YO! TV.

Interview, Studio scene, live shot( w/shing02 etc...)http://www.youthoutlook.org/news/view_article.html?ar ticle_id=db3eae21ad0f7bf5d13056312dd0556b
Posted by Beatropolis on Sun, 16 Dec 2007 12:10:00 PST

Beatropolis Album Art on AT&T Wireless

BEATROPOLIS album art will be featured on upcoming promotional material for Pandra radio on ATT wireless phones!
Posted by Beatropolis on Sun, 16 Dec 2007 12:05:00 PST

Beatropolis on Epiphyte Records - Test Press!

Wow!  Two releases in two months. First Destination Lounge, and now Test Press on Epiphyte Records. Sooo cool!Anyway, Test Press is a SF event sponsored by our buddies over at Pyramind, Ingrooves...
Posted by Beatropolis on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 12:44:00 PST

Beatropolis on Pandora Podcast 2

Check out Chris Horgan - drummer for Beatropolis - breakin down the basic building blocks of EDM. This time he covers breakbeat, downtempo, and DnB. Plus a few live studio tracks from Beatropolis. Get...
Posted by Beatropolis on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 12:28:00 PST

Beatropolis featured on Destination Lounge 2!

Yo! Destination Lounge SF: 2 is finally in stores! Our track: Cowboy Song is featured alongside works by J. Boogie, Andy Caldwell, Miguel Migs and others. It's a smashing disc, and we're stoked to be ...
Posted by Beatropolis on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 12:23:00 PST

DAMNIT We’re back!

So after a nice looong summer we're back. No laying on the beach eating fruit, no more saving baby mountain gorillas in Nicaragua, no more long nights drinking Riesling under the stars...Instead we've...
Posted by Beatropolis on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 10:35:00 PST

Summer in SF

    Hey Kids. Just wanted to let y'all know that Beatro is taking a few months vacation. Chris is going to Greece, Christian is going to Mexico and the East Coast, and Yoshi, well Yoshi...
Posted by Beatropolis on Sat, 23 Jun 2007 12:40:00 PST

Beatropolis featured on Pandora.com Podcast

Did you know that Christian and Chris both work at Pandora.com? Well we do! One of the projects we recently worked on was producing muscial examples that illustrate the differences between techno - ho...
Posted by Beatropolis on Wed, 30 May 2007 11:19:00 PST