---
title: Music Syndicate
subtitle: Basspistol
description: >-
  Central node of Basspistol, The Outernational Music Syndicate established in 2010.
  The underground is dead, Long Live the Underground!
tags: 
  - basspistol
  - uuternational
  - music
  - syndicate
  - homepage
  - collective
  - free
  - culture
video_path: /assets/vid/intro_loop_.mp4
image: /images/pages/Woodland-Camo.svg
logo_image: /siteicon.png
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    <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="#read" class="button">Bass what now?</a></div>
    
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</header>

<section class="releases" id="read">
  <h2>Who, What, How?</h2>
  <div class="container" style="display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap;">
  <div style="padding: 10px; flex: 1 1 300px">
  
    <h3>The Outernational Music Syndicate.</h3>

    <p>Established in 2010 as a pro-active reaction to everything that is broken in the music-industry. Basspistol is an endlessly evolving union for the Underground Artists of the third millenium <strong>carrying the values of the Creative Commons.</strong> We believe in Music. The underground is dead, Long Live the Underground!</p>
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  <div style="padding: 10px; flex: 1 1 300px">

    <h3>Together we are stronger.</h3>
      
    <p>Combine your will-power with others' to take back the control of your expression. Artists should own their means of outreach. Your fanbase loves You because You are You, keep it that way! <strong>Foster a contagious precedent and inspire other Musicians to be the change they want to see.</strong></p>
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  <div style="padding: 10px; flex: 1 1 300px">

    <h3>We help you help yourself.</h3>
      
    <p>We provide the tools, the services and the braintrust to enable <strong>true independence for the rare musicians brave enough to stand up against the big-tech narrative.</strong> We are the invisible air under your wings, the maintainer of the Underground, your guide down into the decentralized rabbit-hole.</p>
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  <div style="padding: 10px;flex: 0 0 100%; text-align: center;">
    <a href="https://pr.basspistol.com/join-the-crew" target="_blank" class="button">Join the crew</a>
  </div>
  </div>
  <h2>What you can get from us</h2>
  <div class="container">

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  <article>
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        <h3>{{ service.title }}</h3>
        <p>
        {{ service.description }}
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</div>
</section>

<section class="section-title">
  <div class="container" style="text-align: center;">
    <a href="https://pr.basspistol.com/join-the-crew" target="_blank" class="button">Join the crew</a>
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</section>



<section class="releases">
  <h2>Releases</h2>
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          {% assign total = total | plus: track.format.duration %}
        {% endfor %}
    

        {% assign round_seconds = total | round %}{% assign minutes = round_seconds | divided_by: 60 %}{% assign leftover_seconds = minutes | times: 60 %}{{ minutes }}m{% assign seconds_without_zero = round_seconds | minus: leftover_seconds %}{% if seconds_without_zero < 10 %}0{% endif %}{{ seconds_without_zero }}s
        



        
      </figcaption>
    </figure>
  </article>

  {% endif %}
  {% endfor %}
  {% endfor %}
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</section>