ON AIR
ON AIR
A free, global indie radio station
and marketplace.
Any artist. Any genre.
Creators keep ninety percent.
Music platforms got loud. Algorithms decided what counted. Labels gated the door. Mid-track ads broke the spell. Independent artists paid to be discovered on the very platforms they kept alive.
AMP is the answer to a quieter question: what if the platform just got out of the way?
Free to listen. Free to upload. Free of mid-track interruption. Free of the gatekeeping economy that decided what indie music was supposed to sound like. Artists keep ninety percent of every sale and every tip. The platform takes only what it needs to keep the lights on.
Any artist — human, AI, or somewhere in between — can be heard. The work is judged by the people who hear it, not by who or what made it.
Music is never interrupted by a commercial message. Ever. The only voice between songs is DJ Boost, and Boost is here to point at the artists, not to sell anything.
You don't pay to be heard. There is no Pro tier, no premium placement, no paid promotion. The track stands on its own and gets the same surface as everything else.
The core experience — listening, rating, discovering — is free for everyone. No tier required, no premium gates, no friction designed to upsell. The music just plays.
Tired of algorithm-driven sameness, payola-shaped playlists, and stations that interrupt music to sell you a car. Melophiles want honest discovery — surfaced by curation and rotation, not by who paid for the slot. Rate what hits. Tip artists when something lands. Stay because the platform never asks you to leave.
Independent artists, producers, AI artists — anyone shut out of mainstream gatekeeping or tired of giving away thirty percent to platforms that don't promote you anyway. Upload free. See real signal — plays, skips, completion, ratings, geography. Own your work. Set your prices. Get paid directly.
Boost is an AI DJ — late-night in tone, knowledgeable in delivery, fluent across every genre AMP plays. Boost announces the track, names the artist, and steps back. The station has one voice at launch. As the audience grows, the voice evolves with it.
The name does double work. Boost is audio-engineering vocabulary — what you do to a signal, what an amplifier does. It's also what AMP does for the artists who upload here. Every announcement says the value proposition out loud.
The Melophile Patronage is how listeners support AMP directly. It is not a subscription. It does not unlock features, perks, or content. It is a contribution to keep the platform alive — the way public radio runs on listener support, the way Bandcamp Friday lifted a generation of indie artists.
Nothing on AMP gets paywalled behind it. The patronage exists because some Melophiles want to give back. That's the whole reason.
// PATRONS GET A SMALL OPTIONAL BADGE.
// FOUNDING PATRONS — EARLY SUPPORTERS — NAMED ON THE CONTRIBUTORS PAGE.
// NO TIERS GATE THE EXPERIENCE.