Do you want to own our music?
It's Bandcamp Friday and 100% of the revenue goes directly to the artists!
It’s Bandcamp Friday which means that if you purchase any of our songs on the platform today (to download & stream) then 100% of the proceeds go into our pocket with zero platform fee’s. We’ll put that right back into making and releasing more music and you’ll get to own and download the high-resolution master files forever!
All the ladies who independent, throw your hands up at me…
Since we were unceremoniously dropped from our major label in February last year (See here for that story) we’ve put so much thought and energy into setting up Belle Mt. to be self-sufficient and to operate in an incorruptible direct-to-fan model. Never again do we want to have our destiny in the hands of a company who can just pull the rug at any moment, so we’ve taken big strides to set up in a way that we can have direct contact with you our fans and keep creating without signing our rights and ownership away. This can be tough, record labels exist for two key reasons; to open up the gates that they control - i.e the gates to radio, to playlisting, to big media - and to provide advance funding for music creation and delivery - i.e the costs of recording & producing music and the costs of early unprofitable touring and large scale marketing. Because of the above its clear that sometimes you have to strike a deal with them; there are some really great music loving, mega talented people who work at labels and it’s great to have those people on your team but at what cost? Thats where leverage comes in, there are deals that can be done with the classic music industry where the artist is able to retain full ownership of their masters and offer a profit split (in favour of the artist) to a record label in return for administration and ‘Label Services’ (Marketing, radio, promo).
Our current goal is to see how far we can take this independent journey by cultivating real relationships with our fans and even friendships with some of our superfans (See our Patreon & MusicNFT communities for that). We have purposely closed some industry doors to models that feel predatory and antiquated, but we’re not closing the door to the industry entirely, we do exist within it after all. If the right admin or joint venture partnership deal were to come along somewhere down the line then we’d listen and consider, but we aren’t interested in handing over majority stakes in our masters again and we aren’t interested in handing over the control of how and when we release music again.
We feel like our music, our fans and the direct connections we have are our superpower and we’re forever thankful for you all for being with us on this journey and for being loud for us with every release.
So much love
-Matt (& Ben & Chris) 🖤
❤️ Want to go deeper? Check out our Patreon
👾 Tech Savvy? Check out our MusicNFT’s
***4 new patrons joined us last week… Welcome Marcie, Matt, Rowena, & Mihaela! 🫶***
Belle Mt. Patreon fan community; It’s been a lot of fun to get to know our fans more closely this year and to share way more of our process. Social media gets in-between us all and we’d love your help to keep on making music ✨
Click below to find out more about our Patreon community👇 if you join now, not only can you jump right in the discord chat and attend next weekends live stream hang but you get the benefit of all the previous posts we’ve shared, including an exclusive full live show video, free cover art wallpapers, and previously unheard song demos.
Belle Mt. Patreon membership comes with access to our community discord chat group, a monthly zoom hang concert with our community and other unique tier dependent perks. Most of all it helps us to stay independent and to keep making music🤘