How is Rapture Records different from SubmitHub or Groover?

Rapture is a single curator, Ben Ferrier, focused on afro house and deep house. SubmitHub and Groover are marketplaces routing to hundreds of curators of varying quality. At Rapture every track is heard in full by the same person who runs the playlists, for €5 per track instead of credit packs.

How long does Rapture take to review my track?

Within 72 hours. A human listens to your track in full, then sends an accept or decline decision with written feedback.

Does the €5 fee guarantee placement on a Spotify playlist?

No. The fee covers the curator's listening time and feedback. Placement depends on whether your track fits the playlist's sound. This is disclosed before payment and you accept it in the terms.

What genres does Rapture curate?

Afro house and deep house. The active playlists are Chill Afro House 2026 and Melodic Afro House 2026 (€1 submissions); a deep house room is planned. Tracks outside these genres are usually declined.

Can I submit unreleased tracks or rough demos?

Yes. You can submit unreleased tracks, demos or released songs. Use a Spotify, SoundCloud, Google Drive or Dropbox link. WeTransfer and SwissTransfer links are not accepted.

Is Rapture Records legit?

Yes. Rapture is run by Ben Ferrier from Kranjska Gora, Slovenia. Payments are processed by Stripe. The curator listens to every track personally and replies within 72 hours.

Kranjska Gora Slovenia Est. MMXXVI

Afro house, heard to the last bar.

Rapture is a small house in the Julian Alps: two Spotify playlists, one curator who plays every submission from the first bar to the last, and a label in the making. Send a track for €5 and you get a written answer within 72 hours, accepted or not.

Submit a track · €5 Read the story ↓

Saves on Chill Afro House: 16,316
Hours to a written answer: 72
Seconds of each track we skip: 0

Frontispiece. The trumpet and the veil.

The story so far

Four stages of the work

Alchemists described every great work in four stages: the blackening, the whitening, the yellowing and the reddening. Rapture has passed through three of them. The fourth is being worked on now.

Engraving: a black sun in eclipse inside a starry vault, a king and a queen seated beside an alchemical flask, dragons coiled below — Plate I. Sol niger, the black sun.

Nigredo the blackening

Fifteen seconds in the queue

Ben Ferrier is a producer and DJ from Kranjska Gora, the small alpine town in Slovenia's northwest corner. For years he released records and sent them through marketplace platforms, where curators who would never play them out skimmed each track for fifteen seconds.

Paying to be skipped is where Rapture began.

Engraving: seven robed musicians stand in a ring on cracked earth, raising a horn, a bell, a lyre, a drum and chimes toward a column of light that opens the night sky — Plate II. The circle of seven, every instrument turned to one light.

Albedo the whitening

One room, one pair of ears

So he built the service he had wanted as an artist. Every submission is played in full by the person who runs the playlists, and every artist gets a decision within 72 hours with a line of honest feedback, accepted or not.

There are no bots, no paid placements and no rotation tiers to climb.

We don't scale our attention past what two ears can give.
Ben Ferrier, curator

Engraving: a circle split between a sunlit landscape and a moonlit one, a crowned figure above, a lion and a lamb below, wreathed in leaves and roses — Plate III. Sol et luna, the day room and the night room.

Citrinitas the yellowing

Two rooms, one taste

The work turned golden in the playlists. Chill Afro House 2026 is the sunset room: lounge rhythms, warm percussion, golden-hour heat. Melodic Afro House 2026 opened later as the after-dark room, emotive and hypnotic, and it is still growing.

Submission fees pay for the ads that grow both rooms, so each accepted track reaches more listeners than the one before it.

Live on Spotify

Chill Afro House 2026

Lounge rhythms, warm percussion, golden-hour heat.

Saves: 16,316
Daily streams: 40 to 150
Accept rate: about 71%

Submit to this room · €5 →

Live on Spotify · the new room

Melodic Afro House 2026

Emotive, hypnotic melodic afro. The after-dark room.

Saves: 1,335
Opened: 2026
Submission: €1

Submit to this room · €1 →

Listen to both playlists →

Engraving: a figure in a red robe rises with open arms beneath a radiant sun, angels with trumpets around, a dragon and a unicorn in the landscape below — Plate IV. The ascent, where the work turns red and is finished.

Rubedo the reddening

The label

The last stage is the label, and it is being forged now. Ben's own records already live in these rooms: Someone Else's Love has passed 179,000 streams on Spotify.

When Rapture opens its catalogue, every release will carry its own engraved plate and roman numeral, drawn in the house style you see on this page.

From the house Someone Else's Love Ben Ferrier Released 15 Nov 2024179,966 streams Play on Spotify → From the house Oh My (Radio Edit) Ben Ferrier Released 5 Dec 202568,130 streams Play on Spotify → Rapture No. I Being engraved The first plate of the catalogue Date to be announced Hear about it first →

Stream counts from Spotify for Artists, September 2026.

The ledger

Where your five euros go

Through a marketplace

€5Your submission fee enters the platform.
−€2Leaves the music ecosystem for platform infrastructure and shareholder margin.
€2Reaches the curator: half of what they could put into growing the playlist.
€0Goes back into the playlist. It stays the same size.

Straight to Rapture

€5Your fee arrives with no platform in between.
€5The full amount stays in play: listening time, and ads for the playlist itself.
↑The audience grows, so every accepted track reaches more ears, yours included.

No platform tax: Submission platforms charge artists, then keep half of what they would pay the curator. Here they don't.
Reinvested reach: Submission money funds ads for the playlists themselves. A bigger room means more listeners for everyone who submits, now and later.
Compounding value: Without a middleman taking a cut at each step, the value compounds: a stronger playlist, a longer tail, better odds for the next track.

Submit a track

Let it be heard

About the track

A link and a single line. That's all. Ben will listen in full within 72 hours.

Artist name

Track title

Track link

Accepted: Spotify · SoundCloud · Google Drive · Dropbox
Not accepted: WeTransfer · SwissTransfer (security risk)

Release status

One line about the song

Playlist

Submission fee €5.00

Payment handled securely by Stripe, with Apple Pay, Google Pay and Stripe Link.

I understand that this submission does not guarantee a placement. The submission fee pays for Ben to listen to my track in full and decide whether it fits the playlist, not for placement itself. I accept the Terms and Privacy Policy.

Please confirm you've read and understood the terms before submitting.

You'll be redirected to Stripe to complete payment. One human listens in full within 72 hours and answers either way.

Three free spots, every month

A free submission, on us

Each month we draw three emails from this list. Winners get one track reviewed for free, with a guaranteed two-week run on Chill Afro House 2026 if accepted. Paying customers get five tickets per submission. The same list hears first when the label opens.

Drawn on the 1st of each monthWinners notified by emailOne free submission per win

Engraving: a celestial wheel of planets around an eight-pointed star, a phoenix rising from an alchemical flask below, angels and scholars at the rim — Plate V. The instruments of the house.

The workshop

Free instruments for producers

Built in the same house and free to use. AI mastering gives a free preview and charges €5 for the finished file.

Questions

What artists ask before they send

How is Rapture different from SubmitHub or Groover?: Rapture is a single curator, Ben Ferrier, focused on afro house and deep house. SubmitHub and Groover are marketplaces routing to hundreds of curators of varying quality. Here every track is heard in full by the same person who runs the playlists, for €5 per track instead of credit packs.
How long does the review take?: Within 72 hours. A human listens to your track in full, then sends an accept or decline decision with written feedback.
Does the €5 fee guarantee placement?: No. The fee covers the curator's listening time and feedback. Placement depends on whether your track fits the playlist's sound. This is disclosed before payment and you accept it in the terms.
What genres does Rapture curate?: Afro house and deep house. The active playlists are Chill Afro House 2026 and Melodic Afro House 2026 (€1 submissions); a deep house room is planned. Tracks outside these genres are usually declined.
Can I send unreleased tracks or demos?: Yes. Unreleased tracks, demos and released songs are all fine. Use a Spotify, SoundCloud, Google Drive or Dropbox link. WeTransfer and SwissTransfer links are not accepted.
Is Rapture Records legit?: Yes. Rapture is run by Ben Ferrier from Kranjska Gora, Slovenia. Payments are processed by Stripe. The curator listens to every track personally and replies within 72 hours.

All questions → How the money is spent →

Engraving: angels seated around a round table study star charts and a golden wheel

For labels and managers

Bulk submissions, playlist trades, partnerships

Labels can send a catalogue in one go, or talk to Ben about playlist trades and longer collaborations.

Working with labels →

Ready to be heard?

Submit a track · €5