Free to everyone. Owned by no one.
For the love of music
Before there were borders, there was a drum on one hill and an answer from the next. Now a song leaves a bedroom in Lagos and lands in a stranger’s ears in Oslo by breakfast. Nobody owns this. Everybody gets to keep it.
You already speak it
You never took a class in it. Nobody handed you a dictionary. Still, the first time a song made you cry, you understood every word.
Every corner of the earth has its own accent. A kora rippling out of Mali. A sitar in Varanasi bending one note until it aches. Steel pans ringing across Port of Spain. Ingoma drums in Rwanda, all talking at once. Tap them. Different accents, same mother tongue.
This corner of the internet sells nothing. No sign-up, no catch. A love letter, and thirty open doors.
Thirty doors out
Every one of these is real and licensed, and plenty of them are free. Click a card and you leave us for them. We don’t mind. That’s the whole idea.
- The big roomsSpotifyThe everywhere app. Free with ads, and a playlist for moods you didn’t know had names.↗
- The big roomsApple MusicLossless sound at no extra charge, and radio with real people on the mic.↗
- The big roomsYouTube MusicThe live take, the bootleg, the cover some kid filmed in their kitchen.↗
- Africa firstBoomplayAfrica’s biggest stream. Afrobeats, amapiano and Sunday gospel in one pocket.↗
- Africa firstAudiomackFree, works offline, and usually the first to catch a new African record.↗
- Africa firstMdundoEast African, free to play, and it splits the ad money with the artists.↗
- Radio & rare findsRadio GardenSpin a green globe and land on a kitchen radio in Ulaanbaatar.↗
- The big roomsAmazon MusicA smaller version comes with Prime. Unlimited opens the whole shop.↗
- The big roomsDeezerDeep French and African shelves, plus a song-catcher built in.↗
- The big roomsTidalHi-res sound that names the writers, producers and engineers. Credit where it’s due.↗
- The big roomsQobuzStudio-grade sound for people who can hear the room in a recording. Big on jazz and classical.↗
- The big roomsPandoraGive it one song and it builds you a whole station. United States only.↗
- Around the worldAnghamiThe Arab world’s own. Umm Kulthum at midnight, Khaleeji pop by morning.↗
- Around the worldJioSaavnBollywood and a dozen regional languages under one roof.↗
- Around the worldNetEase Cloud MusicChinese indie, with comment sections people write poetry in.↗
- Around the worldQQ MusicMandarin and Cantonese pop at a scale that’s hard to picture.↗
- Around the worldMelonKorea’s scoreboard. Where K-pop finds out how it did.↗
- Around the worldLINE MusicJapan’s deep cuts, plenty of which never leave the islands.↗
- Around the worldJOOXThai, Indonesian, Malay and Cantonese hits, with a karaoke mic built in.↗
- Around the worldYandex MusicThe deepest Russian-language shelves anywhere.↗
- Radio & rare findsNTS RadioHundreds of shows by people with very particular taste. Nothing like a playlist.↗
- Radio & rare findsKEXPSeattle radio paid for by its listeners, famous for bands playing live in a small room.↗
- Radio & rare findsMixcloudHours-long DJ sets and radio shows from every city that has a scene.↗
- Radio & rare findsSoundCloudWhere bedroom producers post first. Demos, rough edges and all.↗
- Radio & rare findsBandcampStream it, then buy it straight from the artist. Most of the money actually gets there.↗
- Radio & rare findsInternet Archive AudioOld radio and decades of concert tapes, free and legal to play.↗
- Radio & rare findsFree Music ArchiveMusic you’re genuinely allowed to use in your own videos and films.↗
- Radio & rare findsMusopenClassical recordings and sheet music in the public domain. Yours to keep.↗
- Radio & rare findsJamendoIndependent artists sharing their work under Creative Commons.↗
- Radio & rare findsShazamFor the song playing in the café that nobody can name.↗
03
A gift with no strings
Someone bought this address and handed the keys to everyone. No label owns it. No platform rents it. It’s here so that when you go looking for music, you land somewhere that only wants you to listen.
Gave it away · dushime.com