The Bassmint Story

When the majority of House enthusiasts think of places that bleed House music, places such as Chicago, Miami, New York, and San Francisco are most commonly mentioned. Boston has always been one of the last places anyone ever mentions as a hot spot for quality music. Well, classic rock & the Boston Symphony are for surely mentioned, but no word is a heard necessarily for House music. This stigma is rightly justified because Boston’s social community is composed of mainly college students and young professionals. This thriving community tends to be addicted to the radio and “pop” culture. The Boston House scene has been through many difficult trials and tribulations. But times are changing. Like a phoenix, the house scene has been able to fall from the heights and rise from the ashes of the DEEP! And in that deep… you can find Bassmint.

With the mainstream dance music era of the late 90s craze ending, House music had return to it’s roots in the underground. With the return of small quality music labels, House music has been able to evolve. The combination of over 15 years of industry experience and the success of early production works, close friends, DJ’s, and production partners Carl Joachim and Chad Will decided in Fall of 2005 to launch their own label. Realizing the amount of work required to run a successful label, Carl and Chad decided to employ the help of their close friend Bo Johnson (djVox). Their combined dreams and visions were to create a company in which it’s only goal was to find, produce, and release quality House music in a market overloaded with too much run-of-the-mill material. Bassmint Recordings LLC emerges out of the overrun “pop” culture in Boston.

Bassmint was created to harness the dirty, twisted, and unique sounds present within modern Deep House music. At Bassmint the focus has and always will be on the music. Each artists and producer signed to the label has been hand picked from the upper crust of the house community alongside the most talented up and coming unsigned artists from around the globe.

“We don’t want just any house track. We want dirty, electro, funky, jazzy, yet classy house that peels the paint off of walls. Any label can feature mass quantities of tracks, but it is Bassmint that churns out the minty fresh products. We want to provide quality house music that leaves you needing and thirsting for more. A sound that makes you lose it on the dance floor!”

Bassmint Recordings strives to bring a unique palette of material that has not been heard before and to bring back some sounds that may have been long forgotten.

Carl and Chad have built an outlet for small upcoming artists, whose music might never see the light of day and for quality artists. Bassmint’s first release “Bumpin’N’Jackin,” by Carl and Chad featuring a remix by Demarkus Lewis, caught the attention of people such as The Sound Republic, Halo, Hippe, DJ Heather, Slater Hogan, and received good support at the 2006 Winter Music Conference. Following the success of the first release, Bassmint 002 featured “At the Disco” by Slater Hogan and John Larner with a remix by Eudaemonic (Carl Joachim, Bo Johnson, and Chad Will), and the first release by Ex-Chitown Patriot called “The Potta.” All the songs on this release have received phenomenal support from top artists such as Kaskade, Chris Grant, Ion, The Sound Republic – to name a few – and continue to be charted and featured on mix CDs by artists all over the world.

With the success of the first two releases, Bassmint Recordings now pushes forward with releases from artists such as Joey Silvero, Groove Federation, The Bald and the Beautiful, and Craig Hamilton – to name a few – and will be expanding their music format on to vinyl. Keep an eye out for each release on the quality label that is pushing to renew the House music scene. Bassmint believes that House is about making people dance, so with that in mind: “If you didn’t shake it, we didn’t make it.”