Chrome Music
is back.
Now it’s an app. All our music, every mixtape, old and new.
Invite only. No App Store, no open sign-up. The first invite codes go to this list.
A friend saved you a spot. Sign up and they move up the line.
Pick a DJ.
He plays.
Tap one and he starts playing. Then pick your mood. The Host and the Selector are open, the others you unlock in the app.
Tap a record · it's up next · hit MIX
Bring your own music
Upload your tracks. The app finds the beat for you, so everything you mix lands in time. Your collection stays private.
Your own effects on the pads
Shout-outs, jingles, horns. Load your own sounds and fire them mid-mix, the way DJs always have.
01We’re back.Sixteen years of intergalactic sound wars. A transmission from Captain Chrome.
We left the mothership in 2010.
Sixteen years of intergalactic war followed. The space bankers took the charts, the bad music barons took the airwaves. Terrible music. Worse entertainment. We made it through.
Now we’re back to reclaim it. The age of the space bankers is over. Next stop: a good future.
SignedCaptain Chrome, Dubplate Space Pirate
02Streaming fatigue much?!New music, all the time. Open the case and dig.
Open the case.
Dig through the new ones.
Every record in here is new, made by us. Tap the case, then swipe through the fan and pull one out.
New music, all the time.
No promises, no daily drop. But every week, every month, fresh sound lands in the case.
And yes, we make it with AI. Loud and proud. For years we had to beg singers and neurotic rappers to say the right thing. Now we just say it ourselves. The message was always the point, and at YUM YUM it’s the same as ever: Love is the message.
Back then we made mashups, bootlegs and beats with whatever we could get our hands on. Now we can do it with voices too. The playing field just got levelled. No label, no mainstream, no rules to follow. Just the fun of it.
And you? Make your own mixtapes. Everyone can be a pirate now.
03The Dubplate Pirate Manifesto.Six rules we learned in the sound wars.
The Dubplate Pirate
Manifesto.
I cut my own records.
At least two fresh dubplates a week, for no one but me. Acetates you could hold, flip, drop on the deck and play loud. Hundreds of them still sit in my treasure chest.
Then the laptops boarded. Serato and friends, fair play, they have their uses. But they hoisted a glowing screen between the DJ and the crowd. Pale faces, lit from below. The crowd became an audience, the DJ an animator doing squats on stage, everyone jumping on command. Somewhere at sea, the vibe went overboard.
Give a circle, small or big, a good DJ and something to groove to, and it comes right back. That’s what this ship is for.
I never bought my favourite records. I had them cut.
Two dubplates a week, minimum, still warm from the lathe. A pirate doesn’t count his loot, he plays it. Hundreds of acetates are still in my shelf, waiting for the next raid.
Then came the laptops. Nothing against them, every ship needs a navigator. But nobody dances to a navigator. The screen moved between the DJ and the room, the faces went pale, and the party became a fitness class: one guy doing squats up front, everyone else jumping on command.
We’d rather groove. In a circle, small or big, with a DJ who looks you in the eye. That’s what this app is for.
Two dubplates a week.
Hundreds of acetates in the shelf. Records you could hold, flip and play loud.
Then the screens came, and the DJs disappeared behind them. Pale faces. Squats on stage. Jumping on command. The vibe died quietly.
We’re bringing it back: records in your hand, eyes on the people, groove over show.
- Hold your music. A record in one hand, a beer in the other.
- Look at the people, not at the screen.
- Groove beats the show. No squats required.
- Dance while you play. Flirt while you mix.
- The screen is a tool, not a home. Thanks to AI, it will soon sit quietly on the side.
- Break out of the mental prisons called social media. Come back to the room.
SignedCaptain Chrome, Dubplate Space Pirate
04Play music. Level up.The more you play, the more opens up. Tons of freebies.
Play music.
Level up.
Just listen. The more you play, the more opens up. Unlock tons of freebies:
- Never-heard-before songs
- New tracks
- New mixtapes
- New albums
- Other DJs
- New features
- Build your own DJ
- New skins
05Spin the past.The blog years, 2004 to 2012. One spin, one post.
Chrome Music was one of the earliest music blogs. From 2004 on, labels, from independents to the majors, sent us their promos so DJs could download and play them. We were a record pool for laptops.
At the same time we pushed our own sound: the YUM YUM parties, our remixes and our mixtapes. Today the records come with beat grids, and the decks fit in your pocket.
Spin the past.
Land in the app.
Before the app there was the blog. Spin the wheel and pull out a post from back then. Every one of them leads somewhere new.
Hit the red button. The wheel decides.
06Get the app.Right in your browser. No App Store.
Get the app.
Right in your browser.
No App Store. One tap puts it on your home screen.
- Listen right away: mixtapes from us and from our friends.
- Unlocked with an invite code: the DJ desk and the YUM YUM record collection. No code yet? Someone you know has one, or win one in the quiz.
Not ready to install? Leave your email. We write once, when your invite code is ready.
One more thing.
We'll tell you when it opens.
By email or on Telegram. We write when the door opens, and when your code is ready.