Good morning, good evening, everyone! Friends & Music Lovers
I'm pleased to announce that this is it! The mobile App of the cheapest music streaming website FLAT.FM is available on Google Play Store, starting this month of March 2020.
But let's start at the beginning, what is FLAT.FM?
FLAT.FM was born nearly 10 years ago, a small local Russian radio station. It very quickly managed to stand out on the music market, and quite quickly this young local radio station, full of ambition to offer artists who take time to work on their Mixes, and who love what they do, to broadcast them on their radio.
Step by step FLAT.FM has become an online streaming platform, offering a catalogue of about a hundred titles (unlike MixCloud or SoundCloud, where anyone can put anything online), giving priority to quality over quantity, and following a rather strict technical specification.
Since then, a lot of progress has been made, many new artists have obtained the status of 'Musician' to be listed on FLAT.FM Streaming platform, always respecting their value which are "Quality rather than Quantity".
Music has always been a part of our lives, it accompanies us from birth to death, and has been used for everyone and everything since the dawn of time:
- When we are sad or melancholic
- When we are happy
- To accompany a war (this is no longer done today, but for a long time in history music and drums have been used to accompany armies).
- To celebrate the victory and peace
- To celebrate life we are newly born, or the simple fact of being alive
- But it is also used to celebrate death (in some cultures).
If there's one thing we've been consuming since the dawn of time, it's MUSIC. It accompanies us, comforts us, makes us travel & dream, tells us a story, makes us live an adventure, or even, some music makes us experience powerful emotions.
For hundreds of thousands of years, instruments have evolved, but the craze for music remains the same, today here is how we consume it
- On the radio
- On TV
- On our computers
- At Work
- On our Smartphones
- Connected speakers
- Street performances
- Concerts
- Festivals ...
We have free music, which is extremely easy to access, and paid music, which is just as easy to get.
But the reality today is sad (these words are only mine, and I alone do not speak on behalf of FLAT.FM), no matter where we are on earth, whether we listen to the radio, watch TV, or walk the streets, there is always background music following us everywhere, but this music is just the 'commercial' aspect of this magical ancestral art.
When we know that there are more than 20 Million musical artists in the World, we have to wonder where are the 99% that we never hear?
For the 1% that we hear, they are simply considered as a 'cash industry', these words are crude, maybe even vulgar, but they are mine (from my experience in the music world), and all the other artists who don't play 'commercial' music, for the biggest Major Labels in the world, they have no place in our musical landscape.
It is in this way that FLAT.FM Streaming platform was created, to offer you the possibility to listen and discover artists who work very well (much better than what can be heard everywhere we listen), and who are just waiting to be listened to, to be recognized for their talents, to make us vibrate, quite simply!
This streaming platform has been online for a few years, and today it is :
- More than 11,500 Mixes and Mixtapes (for thousands of hours of listening)
- 594 Artists
- An average of 12 new mixes/mixtapes added daily
All styles of electronic music are represented: Deep, Techno, House, Chill, Drum, Trance, Psy, Experimental ...
This platform offers 2 options, a Free Version and a Paid Version (split into 2 parts depending on how you wish to use your subscription)
First of all, the Free Version, what are its advantages? :
- Streaming in MP3 quality 128 kbps
- Access to the entire FLAT.FM catalogue
- Unlimited listening
- Possibility to create playlists
- Comment
- Rate
What does the Paid Version bring to us: Everything that the Free Version offers you and this:
- Unlimited Streaming in MP3 quality 320 kbps (Listen Option)
- Unlimited download in MP3 quality 320 kbps (Download Option)
This monthly subscription costs only $0.62 (price at the time of writing this article), to pay for this subscription, you can do it directly on the FLAT.FM App, by going to the bottom right, and pressing the '3 lines', and then press 'charge'.
- You can pay by credit card, in RUB (Roubles), i.e. 89 RUB → $1,25
- Pay in FLATCOIN (Cryptocurrency available on Minter Network), i.e. 884 FLATCOIN → $0.62
The advantage of using Minter Network is, firstly, to have 50% less on the price of your subscription, and secondly, to participate in the development of this Cryptocurrency created by FLAT.FM.
I challenge you to find an Online Streaming Platform, as well provided, with quality titles, talented artists, and LESS expensive than FLAT.FM.
You can now take FLAT.FM everywhere with you, for your family walk, your morning run, in car, at work, simply by downloading the App from the Google Play Store.
If you wish to discover all these services in unlimited, and free of charge, please yourself, it is there for that, and if you like what you listen to, do not hesitate to support this ecosystem, by taking a monthly subscription (it costs you less than the price of a coffee, for a unique experience of its kind).
Thank you all for taking the time to read this article, thank you to all those who already support FLAT.FM.
See you soon, and don't forget!
"Music Abuse is good for your Health and your Soul."
Christophe WILHELM
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