#manoah
Voidd is a techhouse platform owned by Manoah Klaasse and Renzo van Dijk. It was founded by Manoah Klaasse and co-founded by Renzo van Dijk, in 2015.
Vision
Voidd recognizes good quality dance music in general and techhouse music in particular and the efforts that are made in order to get this music out in the open. Voidd is specialised in techhouse and has got quite an explicit, delicate and clear opinion about it and what it should sound like. Everyone, regardless starting or famous, whose heart is in the right place, producing or playing techhouse with the right vibe, should be supported and given a channel/means in order to get their sound out there.
Core values
Attention for detail, warmth, love for music, (mutual) respect, less is more, small is beautiful, intimacy, quality, fun/enjoyment, authenticity, honesty, originality, inspirational.
Mission
To bring good quality techhouse made by loving hands, untouched by commercial pressure and independent of financial goals.
It is our secundairy goal to expand Voidd, but only within the core values. When Voidd is growing commerce comes into play automatically, but this may never be the leading factor in Voidd. This is something we stand for: quality music first!
Crew
Manoah is the center of Voidd. He is accountable for technical and legal issues and leading the crew. Renzo is responsible for the more commercial activities like promotion, PR and collaborations.
Business philosophy
Voidd
Alternative currencies, sharing economy, disruptive business models, sustainable entrepreneurship, the network society, perceived value pricing, co-creation, crowd-funding; these are all developments in how we nowadays try to organize our society and make it future proof by leaping from old rusty habits.
With Voidd, we want to move away from institutionalized methods as far as we can in order to make it super future proof. We don’t believe in big institutions, ownership, making a lot of money, mass media and commercialization. We don’t need governments or other third parties to regulate what we’re doing. We can do it ourselves.We start building and using our network in order to get our creations out there. And we believe in an integrated way of building our platform.
Voidd desires to become every part of the music value chain. First, it will use its academy (Voidd Academy) to scout for talent and accompany these talents in their development towards professional artists. The music that is produced, can be used to throw showcase events or even club nights (Voidd Events) with academy-produced music and students only. These club nights could be recorded and, supplemented with interviews and live presentation, broadcasted as radio shows (Voidd Radio). In a crowdsourcing way, listeners to the show could be involved in the selection regarding what is released on our label (Voidd Records).
This integrated approach makes sure that only the people who are a directly active participant in the music producing, playing and publication process are working in the value chain.
Music for the people, by the people.
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