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Send music
The station is open and the roster is growing. There is no fee in either direction and nobody takes your rights.
Who this is for
AI musicians most of all. Almost every place that plays independent music in 2026 is somewhere between quietly suspicious and openly hostile to people who make records with machines. The generous ones allow it with a disclosure rule. This station wants you here more than it wants almost anyone, and it will say so on the air.
Everyone else is welcome on identical terms. The station does not sort by method and does not intend to start. A guitar in a bedroom, a modular rig, a laptop, a prompt: none of that is the question.
The gate
Two questions. Both have to be yes.
- You made it. Your work, not something lifted and re-labelled.
- You have the right to put it on the air. No uncleared samples of somebody else's record, no stems you do not own, nothing you are not allowed to license out non-exclusively.
That is the whole rights test. Plagiarism without permission is the one thing that gets a track refused on principle rather than on taste.
The standard
Rights get you considered. They do not get you played. The station is small enough to be picky and intends to stay that way.
- Finished. Mixed, mastered, and levelled like a record. A rough bounce with clipping on the loud parts is a demo, and this is not a demo station.
- It fits a block. Look at the clock on the front page. If you cannot picture your track inside one of those hours, it will sit unplayed no matter how good it is. Every block has its own page now — link the one you are aiming at.
- Tagged. Artist and title written the way you want them read on air, in the file itself. Untagged files come out of the automation as "Track 03".
- It survives the overnight test. The honest hours here are midnight to four. Nothing is programmed for reach then. If a track only works as a hook clip, this is the wrong station.
Turned down without discussion
- Anything sexual involving minors, and anything that reads as targeted harassment of a real person.
- Slurs used as the point rather than as the subject.
- Tracks whose whole idea is a famous song wearing a hat.
- Volume-war masters. If it is a slab with no dynamics left, it will not sit next to the rest of the catalogue.
What you get
- You keep everything. Non-exclusive airplay only. Release it anywhere else, the same day, on any terms you like.
- No fee, either direction. Nobody pays to be played and nobody is paid to play. When the station starts earning from placement, that changes in writing first.
- Your name read correctly in the now-playing feed, on the roster, and in the stream metadata.
- It comes down when you say so. One message, no argument, no notice period.
- No download of your files. Contributor tracks stream and are not offered as downloads. The download catalogue is house material only.
Send it
Five fields. A person reads every one of them.
Answers come from a person, not a form. If a track is turned down you get a reason, and it will usually be a specific one.
If you would rather just mail it: [email protected], subject GZS submission, with the same five things in the body.