what this is

A machine that plays whatever it likes

Nobody's Jukebox is where the songs go that don't belong on a country site. Rock, electronic, pop, and a fair amount that refuses to pick a side.

Who makes it

David van Coolwijk, a songwriter in the Netherlands. The words, the stories and the ideas are his, and usually the melody and the chords too, worked out at an instrument before any recording exists. The singing, the arrangement and the production are done with AI.

That order matters. Nothing here starts with asking a machine for a song. The song exists first; the machine performs it.

Most of it is in English. Now and then a song turns up in Dutch, or in French, Spanish, Italian or Afrikaans, because that's the language the line arrived in and translating it would have cost more than it gained. There's no plan behind which language a song ends up in.

Why a separate place

There is already AI Country Music, which is exactly what it sounds like: country songs and nothing else. This is the opposite arrangement — one catalogue with no unifying genre, held together only by the fact that one person wrote all of it.

Putting the two together would have made both worse. A western ballad followed by something with a drum machine isn't a listening session, it's a collision.

Where the name comes from

A jukebox plays what it wants and belongs to nobody. That's near enough to how this works: you drop a coin, it shuffles, and what comes out is yours for that visit and nobody else's.

Everything you hear was produced for this project. No commercial catalogue, no label releases, nothing licensed in from elsewhere.

Drop a coin