What if there was a place focused on the industry where you could share your content and connect with like minded people with no filler, no fluff, no annoying ads, no algorithm to please just the quality material from the professionals that matter in your scene?!
Well then you HAVE to check out BassVault!
The site is described as “Your directory of DJs, producers, MCs and the industry pros behind them from around the world”.
The best part?! It’s absolutely free! You can customize your profile, direct embeds let your music be played without having to navigate away to get your tunes and mixes heard! No drama, no extra, just artists and innovators in the industry fueling the machine. You can set up an account in minutes.
The sorting features make it a breeze to find and connect with like minded industry professionals for the ultimate networking tool. It’s easy to navigate with user friendly features and a sleek, comfortable design. You can also post events in a place they will be easy to find. And did I mention there’s no algorithm? 😉 HUGE bonus!
I had the pleasure of chatting with one of the founders of BassVault to really get into what it’s all about! Let’s see what PardeeBoi DnB had to say.
AN INTERVIEW WITH BASSVAULT:
Answered by Lawrence Pardee aka PardeeBoi DnB
Tell us a bit about yourselves and BassVault. What is your mission and what made you decide to bring this idea to fruition?
Honestly, we are just three friends who had a great idea and ran with it. All of us are djs and two of us are producers. We are artists just like the people on our site and we have our own profiles too. But enough about us, lets get into BassVault.
BassVault originally started as DNB4IFE, with a much narrower goal: creating an artist hub specifically for Drum & Bass artists in North America. As we developed the idea, we started talking about the bigger picture. We realized that the concept could benefit artists across electronic music, not just Drum & Bass. We also wanted to build something that could eventually reach artists and fans around the world. That’s what led us to rebrand as BassVault and open the platform up to all genres of electronic music. Our mission is simple: give artists a place to showcase themselves without requiring them to constantly create content just to stay visible to their own followers. Today, social platforms often make artists feel like they have to constantly post, interact, and create new content just to reach the people who already chose to follow them. We wanted to approach that differently. BassVault is designed to be an artist hub first. An artist can create a profile that essentially replaces a traditional EPK, with their biography, branding, music, mixes, social links, and other important information all in one place. The difference is that instead of simply giving a promoter a list of links and making them leave the EPK to find the artist’s music, BassVault allows artists to embed their music directly into their profile. A promoter can visit the artist’s profile, learn about them, listen to their tracks and mixes, and find everything they need without jumping between multiple websites. When an artist shares their BassVault profile, they have their own personalized URL based on their username, giving them a professional link they can send directly to promoters, labels, booking agents, and fans. BassVault isn’t designed to only serve artists, either. We want to give the entire music ecosystem a place to establish a professional presence. Record labels, promoters, booking agents, media outlets, A/V companies, and other industry professionals can create their own profiles as well. The goal is to make those profiles interconnected. An artist can connect with a record label, a promoter can connect with an artist, and media or A/V companies can connect with the people and organizations they work with. Ultimately, we want BassVault to give artists more control over how they present themselves and how they connect with the people who support them.
What are some of your favorite features on the site and how do you think this idea will push the industry and artists forward?
One of my favorite features is our profile theming system, because it allows artists to make their BassVault profile feel like their own space. Artists can choose backgrounds from our library, customize the colors of their profile, change the transparency and appearance of their information panels, choose light or dark panel styles, customize their fonts, and even change the color and effects of their artist name. So instead of every artist having the exact same profile, each profile can have its own identity.
Another feature I really like is the ability to bring music from other platforms directly into BassVault. Artists can embed content from services such as SoundCloud, YouTube, Beatport, Bandcamp, Spotify, Audius, Instagram, andTikTok. We’re not trying to replace those platforms. We’re giving artists a central home where all of that content can come together. Another major feature is our event organizer. Any artist or industry profile can create an event and tag the people and organizations involved — including performers, promoters, and other industry profiles. Venue information can also be entered directly into the event. Once an event is created, it doesn’t just live in one place. It appears on the site-wide event calendar, and it also appears on the profiles of everyone who has been tagged in that event. The site-wide calendar can be filtered by genre, country, state or regional equivalent, city, and date. We’re building it to work internationally, so we’re not forcing every part of the world into a U.S.-specific structure. Where a country uses provinces, territories, regions, or another equivalent to a state, the system can accommodate that structure. I think that’s an important part of what makes BassVault different. An event isn’t just an isolated post. It becomes a connected piece of information within the network. For example, if a promoter creates an event and tags three performers, the event can be discovered through the calendar, the promoter’s profile, and the performers’ profiles, while the venue information is included directly with the event. It creates multiple paths for people to discover the same event. And that’s really the larger philosophy behind BassVault. We don’t want information to exist in isolated profiles. We want the different parts of the music industry to be connected to one another. That’s not limited to artists, either. Record labels, promoters, booking agents, media outlets, A/V companies, and other industry professionals can create profiles and connect with the people and organizations they work with. Regular users can create profiles and customize them as well. Those users become an important part of the ecosystem because they’re the fans. They can follow artists, like and comment on content, share music, create status updates, and share music they discover from other platforms. We don’t want BassVault to only be a place where artists promote themselves. We want it to be a place where artists, fans, and the entire music industry can connect around the music and the events happening around it.
What do you envision for the future of Bass Vault? Are you planning to continue to keep improving the platform? Any plans for an eventual app or will it stay web based only?
Absolutely. BassVault is something we intend to continue developing for a long time. My vision is for BassVault to become a tool that connects the entire music ecosystem — not just artists and fans, but record labels, promoters, booking agents, media, A/V companies, and other industry professionals. Every one of those people and organizations can have their own professional profile, and those profiles can connect with one another. An artist can be associated with their label, their booking agent, the promoters they’ve worked with, or the media and A/V companies they’ve collaborated with. That creates a network where discovering an artist can also lead you to the people and organizations around that artist. A promoter could discover an artist and immediately find their label or booking contact. A label could discover an artist and see the professional network surrounding them. A fan could discover an artist and then discover the label, promoter, event, or media outlet connected to them. We also don’t necessarily want BassVault to remain limited to electronic music forever. As the platform grows, we’d like to open it up to additional genres while still allowing users to control what they experience. We’re looking at ways to use filtering so that if someone only wants to see Drum & Bass, they can focus on Drum & Bass. If someone loves house, techno, hip-hop, rock, or multiple genres, they can build their own experience around what they actually enjoy. And yes, there is currently a mobile app in development. We don’t have a release date we’re ready to announce yet, but bringing BassVault to mobile is definitely part of the plan.
What would your reply be to someone who says they don’t have time for another social site?
I’d tell them that BassVault isn’t really designed to be another social media site. It’s a tool first. It’s an artist hub, an event organizer, a professional profile, and a community all working together. And ironically, Ithink the fact that someone doesn’t have a lot of time is one of the reasons they might benefit from BassVault. A lot of social platforms require artists to constantly create content and fight for visibility. You can have thousands of followers and still have no guarantee that those followers will actually see what you post. We wanted to take a different approach. When you share something on BassVault, the goal is for it to actually reach the people who chose to follow you, rather than requiring you to constantly figure out what an algorithm wants from you. Your time should be spent making music, performing, building your career, and connecting with people — not figuring out how to beat an algorithm. That’s really the philosophy behind BassVault.
Thanks for your time and dedication to nurturing the scene feel free to add anything else you want to share here:
I think the biggest thing I’d like people to understand about BassVault is that we’re building it because we’re part of the scene too. We’re artists, we’re fans, and we’ve experienced firsthand how difficult it can be tokeep up with all of the different platforms, algorithms, profiles, links, and ways artists are expected to promote themselves. We don’t think artists should have to become full-time content creators just to have a career in music. BassVault is our attempt to build something different — a platform that puts the artist and the music first. We’re starting with electronic music because that’s where our roots are, but the bigger vision is much larger. We want BassVault to become a place where artists can build their identity, fans can discover music, promoters can find talent, labels can find artists, and the professionals surrounding those artists can connect with one another. We’re not trying to change what artists create. We’re trying to give them a better place to share it. And we’re just getting started.
The BassVault Team:
BassVault is the move! You literally have nothing to lose.
