"The folks at Broklyn Beats prefer the real crackle of a ragged needle on vinyl to some fancy computer effect that mimics it. Cofounder Crito Thornton (aka Criterion) started his music career in Minneapolis playing saxophone in the crusty-punk/no-wave band Dogfight. He also spent 13 years there publishing fanzines and almost a decade working for a politicized punk organization called the Profane Existence Collective. He moved to Brooklyn and started Broklyn Beats in 1998 as a CD-R label with fellow squatter and “free partier” Heather Leitner (aka Doily, a friend from Minneapolis)" - Liz Armstrong, Chicago Reader