Support The Sound, a new initiative that seeks to promote fair pay for musicians has been unveiled by the teams behind Tbilisi’s Bassiani and New York’s Basement. The team is looking to support artists with fair revenue when their music is played at a club or festival. They claim this is a necessary tool to recognize the artists whose music fuels DJ sets. The campaign has been backed by several clubs around the world including Dekmantel in Amsterdam, Fuse in Brussels, Tokyo’s Womb, Synthetik Minds in Los Angeles and more.
Support The Sound aims to establish a new booking approach where earnings made by DJs during their performances will be distributed fairly using Aslice’s revenue-sharing software tool for musicians created in 2022 by DJ and producer DVS1. Support The Sound members are encouraged to urge resident DJs to submit playlists to promoters, clubs, and festivals, with a future commitment to share revenues in order to “lessen the income disparity between working DJs and producers”.
Aslice CEO Ethan Holben believes that the collective action of Support The Sound will cause a ripple effect that improves the entire industry. “With DJs sharing via Aslice, producers receive compensation for the use of their work. At the same time, clubs and festivals gain easy access to streamlined playlist data for their national Performance Rights Organization, ultimately ensuring that music producers get the royalties they’re legally entitled to,” he says.
The long-term project is being set up using Aslice, which is a community-connecting platform. “When Bassiani and Basement reached out to our team with this idea and expressed that they want to help change things for the better, it truly excited us,” says DVS1.
Support The Sound is aiming to create a fairer ecosystem between DJs and producers and establish fair revenue-sharing principles. Find out more about Support The Sound
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