Boiler Room partners with Apple Music on DJ Mixes

Some of the mixes include sets from Honey Dijon at Sugar Mountain, Ben Klock from the first Boiler Room space in Berlin and a catalogue of mixes since the launch of the platform in 2010. In addition, the set also features the lockdown series, Streaming From Isolation.

Every week, Boiler Room Radio on Apple Music 1 will showcase historic DJ Mixes and share in-depth interviews with the DJs, artists and producers.

Boiler Room says all the royalties from the streams will go directly to the rights holders. However, details regarding how the royalties are being calculated and paid out from the mixes have not been made public.

“The partnership launches with the common aim to compensate all artists involved in a DJ set,” Boiler Room said. “Not only does that mean payment for DJs but crucially also, compensation for the artists, producers and songwriters behind the music in the mix.”

Boiler Room also said it will continue to bring new recordings and historic archive to Apple Music with a shared belief that artists, songwriters, producers, and DJs should be equitably compensated for their work. 

For some time, DJ mixes on music-streaming platforms were not favoured by the companies due to the complexities of licensing such material, while services such as SoundCloud let users upload mixes but don’t generate royalties.

Boiler Room follows mixed-audio distribution platform Dubset, which has been working with Apple Music for a number of years. In December last year, Deezer launched a pilot of DJ mixes and said that every featured artist would get their fair share of revenues when their mix is played.