NAR Music Group

The infrastructure for New-Age R&B.

NAR Music Group is a full-stack development hub. We bypass the traditional industry bottlenecks to provide artists with premium audio, targeted distribution, and custom production.

The divisions

Three functions, one roster.

Full-stack is a claim, so here is what is actually underneath it. Three separate businesses with three different economics, run by the same people and serving the same records.

Data-driven curation. We program the rooms where New-Age R&B actually lives, providing transparent, term-based rotation to targeted audiences.

  • Placement by the week, on lists we program ourselves
  • Rooms programmed by hand, not by a submission filter
  • End of run reporting led by retention, not by reach

A curated catalogue of premium beat leases, sample packs, and elite mix/mastering services tailored strictly for the modern R&B and Rap register.

  • Non exclusive licences in MP3, WAV, and WAV plus stems
  • Sample packs cut from the same sessions as the catalogue
  • Mixing and mastering handled in house by Thirty1

Exclusive 1-on-1 custom beat consultations and sonic development with our in-house producers.

  • A producer building to your reference, key, and vocal
  • Ownership terms agreed before a note is written
  • Six questions to qualify the brief, then a call
The roster

Four people, and no layer between them and the work.

Not a marketing department with a playlist attached. The people choosing what goes into the rotation are the people producing for it, shooting it, and building the software it is sold through.

  • Sean Hamad

    Producer, Sonic Architect

    Sets what the rotation sounds like, and produces into it.

    Programs the lists himself rather than delegating to a submission filter, which is the reason they sound like anything at all. Takes custom production in blocks, and will tell you when a record does not need him.

  • Thirty1

    Producer, Mix and Master

    Builds records from the drums up, then mixes them.

    The one you want when the reference is a rhythm rather than a mood. Handles mixing and mastering for the house, so a commissioned beat and the finished record come out of the same room.

  • NH

    Media Production, Playlist Curation

    Decides what the records look like, and what goes in the rooms.

    Runs the visual side and shares the programming desk. The reason a placement and a shoot arrive looking like they came from the same house rather than from two vendors who have never spoken.

  • Q

    Platform Engineering, Marketing

    Builds the thing you are reading, and everything behind it.

    The site and everything behind it. None of it is licensed from a template.

Send a record, or build one.