Partnerbeats is a small independent label disguised as a marketplace. We work with 187 producers, ship 30 beats a week, and never sell anything we wouldn't release ourselves.
The major labels stopped listening to demos around 2013. Spotify's recommender stopped working a few years later. The result is a generation of producers making genuinely good records that nobody can find.
Partnerbeats started as a Tuesday-night listening session in a converted post office in East London. Three of us, a hard drive, and the rule that nothing leaves the room unless every person in it would put it on a record.
Every beat in our catalog has been listened to in full by a human. We don't host AI-generated tracks. We don't host derivatives that lift uncleared samples. The producer always owns the master, and we always pay them when their beat sells.
Right now: 2,419 beats, 187 producers, 8 genres. We add roughly 30 a week. Producers submit through a curator, not a queue. We say no to about 90% of submissions, and we tell people why.
One price, exclusive license, royalty-free. Sync, sample, replay, remix. Release on Spotify, Apple, YouTube, vinyl, sync to film. The masters stay with the producer; the use is yours forever.
We're building tools, not subscriptions. AI search that actually finds the right beat. Stem separation on demand. Vocal-fit testing. Tools that pay for themselves the first time you ship a record.
{ MANIFESTO } If you can hum it, we can find it. If you can sell it, we can license it. If you can ship it, we can stem it. Otherwise — we don't sell it.
Curator, ex-Warp. 12 years in independent A&R. Listens to every submission first.
Builds the catalog tools. Audio DSP, search, stem separation. Ex-Splice.
Visual identity, type, motion. Runs the journal. Ex-Bandcamp Daily.
Sync deals, label co-releases, radio. Ex-Domino.
Backend, Stripe, infra. Keeps the lights on. Ex-Cloudflare.
Producer onboarding, customer questions. Replies within 4 hours.