Dapstrem Entertainment
Nairobi digital music distributor and publisher founded by DJ Lytmas (Merrick Alvids Owino), also offering white-label distribution tech to sub-distributors.
- Based in
- Nairobi, Kenya
- Founder
- Merrick Alvids Owino (DJ Lytmas)
- Website
- dapstrem.com
Dapstrem Entertainment is a Nairobi-based digital music distribution and publishing company, founded by Kenyan DJ and entrepreneur Merrick Alvids Owino, known professionally as DJ Lytmas. It works with artists, producers, managers and label owners, delivering releases to DSPs including Spotify, Apple Music and TikTok, and offers revenue-tracking and promotional services such as playlisting.
Beyond direct-to-artist distribution, the company offers a white-label package aimed at sub-distributors and smaller labels entering the distribution business, covering the audio and video supply chain, global delivery, royalty payment and analytics reporting under a customised platform. It lists its office in Westlands, Nairobi.
Dapstrem’s own marketing describes it as Africa’s leading distributor with more than 20,000 independent artists and over 1,000 sub-distribution partners; those figures are self-reported and have not been independently verified.
