Unchained Music Distribution passport
- Platform
- Boomkat
- Site
- boomkat.com
To get your music on Boomkat, distribute through Unchained Music. Releases typically go live within 24 hours to 7 days.
Boomkat is the independent Manchester retailer whose written reviews and hand picked catalog have made it a tastemaker for experimental and electronic music worldwide. Boomkat availability at Unchained Music is part of Artist Services.
Boomkat grew out of Pelicanneck, the Manchester record shop founded in 1998, and has sold music online since 2002 from its base at Ducie House, shipping vinyl, CDs, cassettes and DRM free downloads worldwide. What makes Boomkat different is the writing: every release the shop stocks gets an in house review, and those reviews have made the store a filter that serious listeners trust to find the good stuff in experimental, electronic and outsider music. Boomkat is emphatically curated. There is no submission portal, stock decisions are editorial, and music arrives through labels and distribution relationships the shop chooses to work with, which is precisely why a Boomkat listing carries weight. At Unchained Music, Boomkat is available through Artist Services, where placement is pursued as part of a release campaign for records that fit the shop.
The same four steps for every release, whichever stores you send it to.
Sign up and pick the plan that fits. Grow is one artist profile, Pro is three and adds editorial pitching.
Audio, artwork and the metadata that travels with them: titles, credits, release date and rights.
Select your stores and send the release to all of them in one go.
A person checks the release before it leaves. It typically appears on the platform within 24 hours to 7 days.
Updated September 2026
Five questions, answered for this platform specifically.
Boomkat is an independent online record store based in Manchester, England, with roots in the Pelicanneck shop founded in 1998. It sells vinyl, CDs, cassettes and downloads worldwide and is known for hand picking its catalog and writing an original review of every release it stocks.
Boomkat has no open submission pipeline; its buyers choose what the shop stocks, working through labels and distributors they trust. At Unchained Music, Boomkat placement is available for Artist Services clients, where a release that suits the shop is pitched as part of the campaign.
Yes. Alongside vinyl, CDs and cassettes, Boomkat sells DRM free downloads in formats including MP3, FLAC and WAV. Many buyers use it for both, picking up a record and the files from the same trusted counter.
The shop leans toward experimental, electronic, ambient, club and outsider music, but the real criterion is editorial: Boomkat stocks what its team rates. A distinctive record with a strong identity has a better chance there than something chasing a trend, whatever the genre label says.
No. Boomkat is the Manchester record retailer; Boomkit is an unrelated music distribution company with a confusingly similar name. If you are looking for the curated record shop with the reviews, Boomkat with an a is the one.
Set the release up in the app and it goes to this platform with the rest of them, delivered to spec and checked by a person first.
Upload the release yourself in the app, on the plan that fits, and send it to every store you want in one go.
Start DIYFor multi-release plans and label rosters, scoped with the services team before anything starts.
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