We are independent. Brooklyn, NY, since 2007.
Fool's Gold Records
Kid Cudi's first single. Danny Brown's XXX. Run The Jewels' debut. We put all three out. A-Trak and Nick Catchdubs started us in 2007, and we are still putting records out.
Who we are
RAP ON ONE SIDE.CLUB ON THE OTHER.
Two DJs started us in Brooklyn in 2007: A-Trak, the 1997 DMC world champion at fifteen who spent the mid-2000s as Kanye West's tour DJ, and Nick Catchdubs. The plan fit on a center label: put out the records we would actually play, whichever side of rap or club music they landed on.
The record backs us. Kid Cudi's first single came out on our label and went to No. 3 on the Hot 100. Danny Brown's XXX and Run The Jewels' debut were free downloads from us before they were canon. And we never stopped. We are still putting records out in 2026, distributed through Virgin Music Group.
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Our records
We are 170 plus artists deep, from Day 'n' Nite in 2008 to The Cool Kids' Hi Top Fade in 2025, pressed on gold-and-black vinyl and Record Store Day exclusives.
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Our parties
Our Day Off started as a free Labor Day party in a 2010 parking lot and grew into a multi-city franchise. Our A-Trak & Friends parties carry the torch now.
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Our radio
We ran Fool's Gold Radio as our own label mix series through the SoundCloud era, then a Beats 1 show, and it lives on as our Apple Music DJ-mix curator page.
A-Trak
Our co-founder
Alain Macklovitch. 1997 DMC world champion at fifteen, the youngest ever. Kanye West's tour DJ from 2004, scratches on Late Registration and Graduation. Half of Duck Sauce, whose Barbra Streisand hit No. 1 on the US Dance chart and earned a 2012 Grammy nomination.
A-Trak@atrakVerifiedNick Catchdubs
Our co-founder
Nick Barat. The other half of our masthead since 2007: DJ, producer, and our co-curator from the first Fool's Gold Radio mixes to the releases still rolling out today. He is on our roster himself, alongside the artists he signed.
Nick Catchdubs@catchdiniVerifiedThe press
Three lines we earned, each quoted as Wikipedia's Fool's Gold Records article records it.
Our run
2007 to right now
Nineteen years on the record, and you can check every row of it in one tap: the chart, the parties, the free downloads that turned into canon.
- 2007Two DJs press a labelA-Trak, fresh off three years as Kanye West's tour DJ, and Nick Catchdubs start us in Brooklyn: an independent home for the records we would actually play.
- 2008Day 'n' Nite goes to No. 3Kid Cudi's commercial debut single comes out through us on February 5 and climbs to No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100. The Crookers remix, which we gave away that March, takes it global.
Crookers@therealcrookersVerifiedCrookers - 2010The first Day OffA free Labor Day party in a parking lot with Yelawolf and our family becomes an institution: our Day Off editions run across NYC, LA, Atlanta, Austin, Boulder, Florida and ComplexCon through the decade.
Yelawolf@yelawolfVerifiedYelawolf - 2011
Danny Brown's XXXWe put XXX out on August 15 as a free download. It draws widespread acclaim and makes Danny Brown a star, and we announced it on our own site six days early. - 2012Barbra Streisand at the GrammysDuck Sauce, our co-founder A-Trak with Armand Van Helden, takes Barbra Streisand to No. 1 on the US Dance chart and a Grammy nomination for Best Dance Recording.A-Trak@atrakVerifiedA-Trak
Armand Van Helden@armandvanheldenVerifiedArmand Van Helden - 2013Run The Jewels, given awayEl-P and Killer Mike release their self-titled debut June 26 through us, free. It lands on the year-end lists and launches the biggest rap duo of the decade.
Killer Mike@killermikeVerifiedKiller Mike - 2015
BROCKHAMPTON's first winBROCKHAMPTON win the first VFILES LOUD competition, with A-Trak and us on the judging side of the table. VFILES' own post, reshared to our grid, tells it. - 2022Fifteen years of goldOur FG15 anniversary run: a black-and-gold vinyl compilation, Webster Hall and Public Records shows, an NYFW '23 anniversary event, and an LA blowout at The Bellwether with Hudson Mohawke and Baauer.
Hudson Mohawke@hudmoVerifiedHudson Mohawke
Baauer@baauerVerifiedBaauer - 2025A-Trak & Friends, the labelOur five-year party series becomes a sub-label built for the dancefloor, profiled by Beatportal that July. That October, The Cool Kids return with Hi Top Fade, fifteen tracks on our label.
- 2026
Still goldA-Trak curates the NBA 2K26 Season 4 soundtrack. Danny Brown's Grown Up gets its first-ever vinyl pressing as a Record Store Day exclusive. Our releases kept coming right through August.
Our roster
Whose records we press
Nineteen of the 170 plus artists on our own roster page, seventeen of them playing their own Instagram right under their own name. The whole list, A to Z, is one tap away.
Kid Cudi@kidcudiVerified
Danny Brown@xdannyxbrownxVerified
Run The Jewels@runthejewelsVerifiedOur co-founder A-Trak with Armand Van Helden. Barbra Streisand went to No. 1 on the US Dance chart and took a Grammy nomination in 2012. Both of them play on their own accounts elsewhere on this page.
The Cool Kids@thecoolxkidsVerified
Chromeo@chromeoVerified
Kavinsky@kavinskyVerified
Flosstradamus@flosstradamusVerified
RL Grime@rlgrimeVerified
Tchami@tchamiVerified
Anna Lunoe@annalunoeVerified
Lil B@lilbisgodVerified
Meyhem Lauren@meyhemlaurenVerified
Michael Christmas@michaelchristmasVerified
UNIIQU3@uniiqu3musicVerifiedNick Catchdubs@catchdiniVerifiedA-Trak@atrakVerifiedOur sub-label
A-TRAK & FRIENDS
We launched A-Trak & Friends in 2025 out of the party series of the same name: our house label for the dancefloor. Its first release was James Juke's AF-001, and its first year closed with an anniversary mix on our own SoundCloud.
Our sound
Press play on us
An hour of our sub-label's first year, the album that closed our 2025, and the tape from the anniversary. All of it on our own accounts.
James Juke: A-Trak & Friends 1 Year Anniversary Mix
On our SoundCloud
One hour of our sub-label's first year, mixed by the artist who opened its catalog.
The artists on it
James Juke@heyjamesjukeThe Cool Kids@thecoolxkidsVerifiedFool's Gold 15th Anniversary, NYFW '23
Our own recap
Life on Planets, Feels INTL
Official music video
Life on Planets@lifeonplanetsVerifiedStraight from our account
See it for yourself
Live embeds off our own account, so you can check any of it in a tap.
Our crate
Two dozen frames off our feed
Every frame below came out of one of our own posts, and every one of them opens the post it came from.
Contact
Talk to us
Every route below is one we publish ourselves. General inquiries go to our inbox and our DMs; press, licensing and store questions each have their own address.
All four addresses, the demo link and the internships page are the ones we publish on our own contact page. We publish no booking address anywhere, so none is listed here.
Still gold.
Nineteen years of records, parties and radio, and our catalog is still growing. Our DMs are open and our inbox is published.