Who We Are

Ramen Music hand-picks the best new tracks from independent musicians of all genres and delivers beautiful online issues every 2 months to our subscribers.

Think of us like a music label that doesn’t produce or manage artists. Or like a pimped out music blog that pays our artists and pro-actively delivers music in a visually rich and interactive package. We aim to be your tech-savvy independent music dealer, working overtime to feed you awesome tunes in an easy to digest and elegant fashion.

Ramen Music is not a startup; we are a small musician-run private business. We do not have investors. However, we do (for a limited time) have investor subscriptions!

Here are the faces behind Ramen:

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Sudara Williams

Founder, Benevolent Bear-tator

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Samo Korošec

Minister of Visual Information

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Philipp Conrad

Special Agent (Public Reconnaissance)



Ramen Music sports an international team of highly-trained and dangerous curators who listen to every single music submission. (Without them, Sudara would be running around in circles pulling his hair out.)

Our History

In December 2007, Sudara (with Samo's design and concept help) launched alonetone, giving musicians a place to upload and host their music.

The goal: A non-commercial home for DIY/independent musicians. No ads. No sign-up fees. Open Source.

Since its launch, alonetone has become the home to 30,000 songs by over 2200 artists and bands, and has delivered over 1.5 million streams and downloads.

What We Believe In

Ramen is dedicated to the following:

  • Musicians deserve fair contracts and livable compensation.
  • Genres don’t matter (good music does).
  • We should be able to share the music we purchase without restrictions.
  • New technologies are new opportunities, not new threats.
  • Integrity, honesty & quality always trumps making a quick buck.

Doing It Right

We’re a small, tight operation (read: mainly run by 1 guy). We have very few costs. This allows us to forward a lions share of our revenue to our artists (who certainly deserve it!)


This is not typical for a music company. Most labels are bloated with hierarchy and expenses. The move to digital distribution brought distribution costs down to virtually nothing, but labels have been slow to change, paranoid about sharing & piracy, keeping their prices high and still paying artists next to nothing:



As musicians ourselves, we decided not to wait for the Music Industry to catch up with what listeners and artists want; We decided to build it ourselves.

We are just getting going; sure, it may be a while before we can pay artists what we believe they are worth. But the important thing is our artists come first. After all, they are doing most of the work!

What’s with the name?

The name comes from the idea of being “Ramen Profitable.”

Our two main goals:

  • To enable musicians to survive humbly and fairly on their music without selling their soul to a corporation (Put ramen on their table).
  • To be modestly profitable as a music business. To avoid bloated monetary investments, unnecessary hierarchy, sky-high marketing costs, etc (Put ramen on our table).

I need help or would like to contact Ramen Music

If this is a general inquiry, subscription question or if you are a customer, email subscribe@ramenmusic.com.

If you are an artist, or have a question about our submission process or your submission, email submissions@ramenmusic.com.