Six producers met every Tuesday at a coffee shop on Cesar Chavez. Five years later there are 142 of us.

The beginning

Austin's music economy has always favored the performer. Songwriters get rooms, bands get residencies, but producers — the engineers, beatmakers, and arrangers behind the record — were everywhere and nowhere at once.

APA started as a Tuesday-night beat-making circle in 2019. Six producers, one coffee shop, one rule: bring an unfinished track. Within a year it was sixty people in a basement, and by 2022 we had moved into a permanent room above a print shop in East Austin.

How it works

Membership is open to anyone making music in Austin. We charge a sliding-scale annual due ($0—$120) that covers room rent and equipment. Members get the keys.

What we believe

• 01Producers own their masters. We don't sign anyone.
• 02Every event is open to every member, regardless of genre.
• 03Merch profit splits back across the room.
• 04Sliding-scale dues. Always.

The team