Category: Music Stores

Songs.hu online music store offers great music in MP3 format in a wide variety of genres: Alternative, Blues, Children, Classical, Contemporary, Electronic, Folk, Hip Hop, Jazz, Metal, Pop, Psychedelic, Punk, Reggae – Ska, Rock, Spoken Word, Traditional popular songs, World Music. Songs.hu was established by the Hungarian Musicians’ Union and is operated by the Union’s own non-profit company, the Hungarian Live-Music Arts Company for Public Benefit. The Company employs musicians to run Songs.hu and while they are, of course assisted by lawyers, accountants and IT professionals, strategic decisions always remain in the hand of musicians.

Hangvető (SoundSower) is the largest world, revival, traditional and Gypsy music distributor in Hungary today. Founded by three leading labels in this field – Etnofon (the first Hungarian independent folk label), FolkEurópa (Kálmán Balogh, Tükrös, Makám) and X-Produkció (Boban Markovic Orkestar) – it offers more than 150 quality releases of Carpathian and Balkan music. Besides the CDs of the founders Hangvető distributes many other labels: Gramy (including the Best World Music Album Prize winner Djabe), Orpheia (Bea Palya, Folkestra), Murphy Music Media (Etchno, Romano Trip), just to mention a few. They also distribute some of the best selling bands like Besh o droM, Felix Lajko, Muzsikás and Mitsoura.