The Bastille Project

The Bastille project is moving on fast. We work hard to have our innovative web service up and running as quickly as possible. This will be a global service because it will be multilingual by design. We commit to support more languages in the near future and we already plan to support Indi and Mandarin (both versions).

As this is a complex project, we will open a public beta “by invitation only” in the coming weeks to visitors willing to open a record label based on our free web service. Of course the labels themselves will be publicly accessible to artists and visitors.

Everybody knows that the music industry is in crisis and they seem unable to adapt as quickly as required their business model and processes. The majors seem unable to embrace internet technologies in new and innovative ways. Be assured that they work hard in order to transform their existing organization but it is very difficult to do it when you have existing contracts, shareholders, managers and employees. It is even harder to survive in a world where small innovative companies (like us) empowered by internet technologies reinvent your own business quicker than you ever imagined.

We began to work on this project last autumn. We assessed the music industry processes and business models and then defined ours. We are currently implementing them using internet based technologies. The team behind the Bastille Project, has lot of experience in these business fields.

We are going to open a first website in the coming days. On this site you’ll find all the informations you require before to open your own personal record label.

The people interested in creating their label will be allowed to register their interest online. On the basis of “first come, first served” and within weeks, we will validate these registration requests and email invitations to access the “beta main site”. Artists, businessmen, music lovers, sound engineers or recording studios willing to manage their own label will be welcome. Artists willing to “only” collaborate with a label will have to wait until the first labels offer their services.

Your record label is your own business. As such, depending on the country you are living, there are taxes, laws and regulatory requirements that you’ll need to address and manage. It is always best that you consult your lawyer, tax adviser and/or accountant. Our service offering is a complete free web service that will provide the online tools required to manage the processes and business models required to operate on the internet your own record label… But it is only what it is : an innovative web 2.0 service…