Gate
The download gate — a threshold a fan passes through to unlock your track.
Press & media kit
Writing about GateCrate? Here’s the story straight.
The name, the look, the thesis, and a human to reach — everything a journalist, curator, or label needs in one place. Copy what you need; no form, no gate.
The story
A gate that hands the artist the audience.
GateCrate is a download gate for independent musicians and DJs. A fan trades an email — and, if the artist wants, a follow or a save — for a free track. The difference is who keeps the fan afterwards: the email and the CRM land with the artist, exported as plain CSV any time they ask. No platform sits in the middle holding the list hostage.
It exists because the old gate tools rent you a reach that vanishes the moment a platform changes its API. GateCrate is built the other way round: email capture never depends on any single platform, and every other step — Spotify, SoundCloud, Discord, YouTube — is one toggle you can switch off without breaking a thing.
- Name
- GateCrate
- What it is
- A download gate that turns free tracks into an owned fan list
- For
- Independent musicians & DJs — garage, DnB, dubstep, amapiano
- Site
- gatecrate.com
The artists make the music that moves the floor. They should own the room it fills.
The name
Gate + Crate.
Two words, no mystery. It says what it is and who it’s for in the same breath.
Crate
The DJ record crate, and crate-digging culture — the box your fans dig through.
Brand basics
Near-black, one restrained accent, two clean faces.
The direction is subtle on purpose. Use the token names below — they’re the variables in the actual design layer, not approximations.
Palette
- CanvasThe near-black backdrop everything sits on. Quiet, so the music is loud.
--color-bg - SurfaceCards and panels — one step up from the canvas, still calm.
--color-surface - InkPrimary text. High contrast, easy on the eyes over a long read.
--color-ink - AccentRefined iris. The one accent — used sparingly, never neon, never everywhere.
--color-accent - Accent softA restrained wash of the iris behind chips, glows, and active rows.
--color-accent-soft
Typography
- DisplayBricolage Grotesque
- Own your audience
- BodyHanken Grotesk
- The list you walk out with is the asset.
- MonoGeist Mono
- gate · crate · reup
Share card
What a link looks like when you post it.
Every public GateCrate link renders this card on Discord, X, and IG. The live template is below — the same one this page’s own share image uses.
Press kit
Own your audience.
The download gate that hands you the audience.
gatecrate · own your audience.
OgCard template — dark canvas, one iris accent, the brand mark top-left.Brand assets
Logos, palette, and a full press pack.
The downloadable bundles are being packaged. Need them before they land here? Email us and we’ll send the lot the same day.
Logo & wordmark
SoonSVG + PNG, light and dark, with clear-space rules.
Palette & tokens
SoonThe full token set — hex values and the variable names.
Press pack (ZIP)
SoonEverything above, the boilerplate, and screenshots.
Need assets or a quote today?
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Want to see it before you write it up?
Build a gate yourself in a couple of minutes — the fastest way to understand what GateCrate actually does is to run one.