As a former audio engineer, he said he noticed that Bassnectar tracks often included uncredited elements and samples from other artists. I was just a music nerd that understood what was going on and wanted to shed light on it. That was theft pure and simple. It was unbelievable to me. The pattern spans from as early as the mids to as recently as spring of last year.
In the case of electronic music and sampling, Lane said there is an ethical code among DJs that Ashton crossed. Ashton has been called out for stealing other types of art, too. In April , visual artist and animator Max Hattler accused Ashton , then later sued him, for using his art during live performances without permission or payment. The case was ultimately settled. There was hope that this platform would allow ill.
Gates to grow and find his own audience as a result. Other well-known bass music producers have alluded to the controversy in support of victims, including Peekaboo , G. Jones , and Apashe. But no male collaborators besides Lane have spoken publicly about their personal experiences.
He said that his doing so is actually one more example of him being manipulated by Ashton. According to Lane, the two spoke when the evidenceagainstbassnectar Instagram surfaced. He chalked up much of his experience to the unfortunate realities of the brutal music industry. She said that Ashton unacceptably used a portion of one of her original songs without credit or permission, then made ultimately hollow promises about how he would rectify the situation.
LeSesne initially shared her story in a Twitter thread on July 7, after learning of the other allegations against him.
He also made a number of attempts to locate the owner of the original work. LeSesne in creating his new, transformative work and out of respect would very much like to work out a fair compensation agreement. Ultimately, she said she was offered more royalty payments, but has yet to receive them.
Streaming makes very little money for artists. According to the website sets. LeSesne said that throughout her experience, she never found much support from either the Bassnectar fandom or the larger music world. He said that a later Bassnectar remix of the track sounded almost exactly the same. His Twitter stream is filled with messages of support for the Black Lives Matter movement. Be Interactive, the nonprofit launched in and run by the Bassnectar team that has since rebranded as Interactive Giving Fund, raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for charity, including a grant specifically for projects that support LGBTQ rights.
He had no trust for anyone he ever worked with. Electronic music producer and singer Mimi Page said she had a glimpse of the man behind the curtain, too. She said that her original work was taken by Ashton to further a falsely compassionate, feminist facade that tricked even more women. She wrote that many women told her they discovered Bassnectar through that song. On Spotify alone, the song has been streamed nearly 8 million times.
Her website features a photo of the event, her arms spread in celebration in front of the huge crowd. An artist is required to pay their dues and the exposure Mimi received was candidly invaluable. As of late September of last year, her website did say that, but by late January of , any written mention of Bassnectar had been removed.
Later in after the Red Rocks performance, when she performed with Bassnectar at the music festival Lightning in a Bottle, Page wrote in her letter that Ashton paid her nothing and she had to change in a port-o-potty. Another longtime collaborator, Jason—whose name has been changed because he fears repercussions in the music industry for speaking—told VICE he felt similarly underpaid and under-credited for his work.
According to Jason, despite all the work he did on Bassnectar tracks, Ashton was also frequently dismissive of his music career. He was one of several people VICE spoke to that said that Ashton discouraged them from the music industry. Page said that Ashton told her that if the business was too hard financially, she should make music her hobby rather than her work. According to several people VICE spoke to, Ashton also had a habit of making promises he never followed through on, which kept himself in a position of power and control.
She said he asked her to DM him on Twitter pretending to be a fan sharing her work, so that he could then share that work with his team without revealing the nature of their relationship. The work is in her portfolio, but she said he directed her not to talk about it inside the scene. She was also credited using an alias.
He recalled that he even went so far as to schedule an entire tour believing that his album would come out beforehand on Amorphous. The plans fell through both times. Many successful electronic music artists create their own record labels.
Still, controlling the label offered him even more leverage over other artists and few checks on his behavior. In filings with the state of California , Ashton is listed as the C. He holds the same positions at Bassnectar Touring, Inc.
In April , the U. For many Bassnectar fans, being a Basshead was about much more than attending concerts. They also participated in community engagement projects through the Bass Network, a group created to facilitate volunteer projects that was run mostly by young, unpaid fans. In addition to Twitter, Ashton allegedly met several of the fans that felt they were groomed by him through the Bass Network, including Sarrantonio, who won her meet and greet with Ashton because of a contest organized by the group.
The Bass Network also ran the Ambassador program, which offered Bassheads free show entry—and a group photo with Ashton—in exchange for volunteering. As ambassadors, Kelsey Long, Emma, and Hannah tried to live those values. All three say they met him through the Bass Network and eventually entered into sexual relationships with him that they now see as abusive.
She was 19 at the time. She recalled them having sex for the first time the next year, in , and also like the other women, she said he took on a mentor-like role with her. She said their physical relationship lasted until His words left an impact. When men show interest in me I become really turned off and uncomfortable. Her experience continued to follow a familiar pattern: she said he snuck money into her bag, made her keep everything secret, and ultimately made her feel isolated from the community she had loved.
Hannah started volunteering for the Bass Network in and said she had sex with Ashton for the first time when she was 22 after his event, Basscenter, in Colorado in July She said he was adamant that she told no one about the nature of their relationship and became very angry when he found out that other people knew. Hannah described accidentally booking a room in the same hotel as him for his Halloween show that year, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, which she said angered him even further.
He did that probably four to five, maybe six more times. She recalled having consensual sex on a few more occasions with him after that night and texts she shared with VICE show that their sporadic interactions remained friendly through last year.
Sarrantonio also said that she sent explicit photos to Ashton at his asking as recently as last year, after she too experienced a moment of physical aggression from him. He locked eyes with me in a threatening way. That was freaky; I remember being very scared. In , another woman, Tarah Sondeland, said she also experienced physical aggression from Ashton.
She was 19 at the time and recalled meeting him backstage at a Bassnectar show. She said that Ashton put his hands underneath her jacket, shirt and pants line and his face into her neck. Sondeland stayed in touch with Ashton over email and text for a couple of years, but the conversation faded over time and she became disillusioned with the Bassnectar scene. She kept quiet about her bad experience because of fear of being slut-shamed or labeled a groupie.
At the end of , Ashton allegedly returned to the Twitter Basshead fandom to message Amber Uffelman, 20 at the time, who also volunteered at Bassnectar shows.
Uffelman said they met in his hotel room in New York City in , where he was in town to play a secret show in Brooklyn, and she remembers a strangely long hug.
She recalled Ashton asking her to cuddle in bed, but she rejected the idea. He 1st released his album in On July 3, , he announced that he will be stepping back from the music. Bassnectar seems to be single. However, if we get any information regarding his love life, we will keep you updated.
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From there, a string of dance-chart-topping albums followed, including 's Noise vs. Beauty , his first number one. Additionally, a significant amount of Bassnectar 's music also has a strong activist streak, which he uses to promote social and political causes, as well as to foster a sense of community.
Born Lorin Ashton in Santa Cruz in , he was raised in a bohemian environment and claims to have been introduced to the power of bass by the rumbling of a minor earthquake he experienced as a child.
As a teenager, he was exposed to world music by an uncle who brought him a set of hand drums and recordings of African and Latin music; at the same time, the youngster had become a serious thrash metal fan, and was also interested in grunge particularly Nirvana and hardcore rap especially N. Ashton taught himself to play guitar and formed an extreme metal band, becoming a fixture on the local grindcore scene until he attended his first rave in the fall of He was immediately won over by the sense of community in the rave scene as well as the music, and he began attending raves as often as he could, as well as helping to organize and promote events.
In , Ashton started learning how to DJ, and coupled with his earlier experience in percussion, he recorded four-track demos with his band and studied electronic music at the University of California in Santa Cruz, soon mastering the basics of spinning and producing dance music.
Later that same year, the first Bassnectar album, Freakbeat for the Beatfreaks, was released; Ashton produced and released on his own label, Amorphous Music. While his first few albums earned him a buzz on the indie electronic scene, the fourth Bassnectar album, 's Diverse Systems of Throb , expanded his audience and influence. Divergent Spectrum , released in , was his first album to reach the Billboard charts. Beauty , reached number
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