Free/"Name Your Price" Bandcamp Album Compendium

I don't know man, are you listening to ambient for innovation and excitement? Because I think you might have the wrong genre for that.

Anyway, I've been to Indio, if I lived there I would probably be making music that sounded like that.

would you find this more appealing if it were called music for butterflies? they're just moths with prettier clothes.

I don't know man, are you listening to ambient for innovation and excitement? Because I think you might have the wrong genre for that.

― Gamera died for our sins (J3ff T.), Tuesday, January 24, 2012 12:46 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I'm an ambient man, have been so for 10+ years. The opposite of "innovation and excitement" - which is what I guess you are getting at in your definition of ambient - does not make for (good) ambient, per sé. At least not in my book. Ambient can be unsettling, unnerving as anything else. Ambient itself shines all around the spectrum of what most people call "ambient". From great snoozer-ambient to unsettling, scary ambient.

Butterflies don't eat your clothes. At least I don't think they do. Although that would explain a lot…

I think moths wear their outfits with pride, and rightfully so

Sorry man, cheap joke. I've just recently started getting into ambient, and I dig it a lot, but I guess I have trouble recognizing when ambient is cliché. I'm still at the stage with that genre where my critical insight basically comes down to "I like this" or "I don't like this."

"this is scary"

loving the teenage strangler stuff

oh i should have mentioned this...my friend's band Dallas Orbiter

http://www.dallasorbiter.com/

did a thing in 2011, where they released a free digital "single" each month...a-side was new original, b-side was a cover

i think they have a unique sounds...i dunno, kinda of an odd yet poppy space rock...like somewhere between a less-chopsy walt mink and can or something?

the originals are all great and the cover selections are cool and diverse, include songs by Blue Oyster Cult, Al Stewart, Brian Eno, an unreleased song by a former member of Punchdrunk (Punchdrunk's rhythm section became the original Hold Steady rhythm section), Glen Campbell, Baader Meinhoff, Love & Rockets, John Cooper Clarke, Bombay Sweets, The Zombies

& Rita Coolidge

a couple of recent melbourne things

heavily reverbed screamy 60s garage thing

http://rayonmoon.bandcamp.com/

entertaining lofi garage thing, drummer is a friend of mine

http://bidetmate.bandcamp.com/

http://huggorm.bandcamp.com/
Swedish garage rock!

http://threedimensionaltanx.bandcamp.com/
Spacey psychedelicy stonery jams!

http://jessevalentinemusic.bandcamp.com/album/free-mega-album-30-tracks
Beepy dance music!

http://dreamlandrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/various-artists-around

substantial compilation of experimental/drone/acoustic/electronic stuff, mostly but not entirely australian, lots of really good things

hey look name-your-price stuff from my favorites!

http://legendarypinkdots.bandcamp.com/

http://edwardka-spel.bandcamp.com/

http://recordsonribs.com/artists/strapthebutton/
British JAMS collective (but like psychedelic and good, not like Phish)!

Think when I downloaded the free Cosmic Dead record last year it gave me Three Dimensional Tanx as a recommendation (or maybe it was vice versa). That was a very good day.

the new elephant micah album is name your price for the digi version

http://productofpalmyra.elephantmicah.com/releases

Weird. Pre-ordered the vinyl of the Elephant Micah before Xmas, & at the time, rather than getting the whole thing to download, they only gave you one track (& that was the one that was already free on the site). Thought they were just trying to stop people spreading it around before the release date, but now on release it turns out it's Name Your Price thing anyway. I must be missing something about this strategy.

last year I wrote 242 songs as part of a song-a-day project. going on holiday and moving house put a stop to getting 365 but anyway... these are my favourite ones. http://kidsteel.bandcamp.com/album/the-year-of-magical-thinking

huggorm and three dimensional tanx -- yes!

also everyone should dl this excellent peter gordon song seandalai (i think?!) played in outloud the other day (yesterday? i have no idea what day) it! is! the best!!! it builds and builds and then AGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH 8 min of totally awesome
http://soundcloud.com/pglolo/machomusic-76

it was two days ago
whatever day it was, (and hell, whatever day it is) that song totally rules and is available for free/legal dl

that PG song is SO DAMN GOOD.

Pretty much everything that fastnbulbous has been linking to has been gold.

http://vitriolrecords.bandcamp.com/album/collected-lp
Next-level intelligent French hardcore!

http://verma.bandcamp.com/
Noisy Krautrock!

http://www.nuclear-death-terror.com/music.html
See band name!

(The first band is called Birds in Row, see my review of their record in the latest issue of Decibel)

australian indiepop. crunchy in a darling buds sort of way

http://scalemodels.bandcamp.com/

COMPILATION FOR A CAT

Noise/drone/out/showtunes/everything. Really for a cat! So pay something.

(sorry can't post the link right now but google it)

Also: DADA TRASH COLLAGE, who kinda sound like the name

Also?

ELIZABETH VELDON

Trust.

I should note that veldon is NOOOOOOOISE

Links to the stuff Raymond mentioned:

http://dadatrashcollage.bandcamp.com/

http://elizabethveldon.bandcamp.com/

Any recommendations as to good Elizabeth Veldon records, Raymond? She's quite prolific.

Thanks!
Start with "could you please stop raping me" - not for the politics (tho most of her stuff is political) but because it's gnarly.

Also check: "Iona" and "flow my tears" off the top of my head

Some of this stuff is more "experimental " than noise, per se

Got that Verma stuff a while ago. Very good.

http://spoekraket.bandcamp.com/
Droning shoegaze psych and other buzzwords that you will like!

http://schwarz.bandcamp.com/album/esp-ritus-del-desierto-yo-os-invoco-2
Electrorock en Espanol!

http://humanerror.bandcamp.com/
Epic dystopian breakbeat instrumentals!

http://thecitykill.bandcamp.com/album/days-full-of-joy
Female-fronted downer postpunk!

http://lowt-ide.bandcamp.com/

nice dreampop/shoegazy stuff featuring a member of the prids

http://wemisstheearth.bandcamp.com/

the Dada Trash Collage is A+ fun

OOOHHHHHHHHHHHHH BADNESS!

http://st37.bandcamp.com/album/glare

^spacerock classic. Orig. released in '95; I discovered it last year; it's one of my favorites.

I had hit up the band on MySpace and they seemed to imply that this was going to get a physical CD release too; as much as it goes against the grain of this thread, I really really really really hope that comes to pass...

Whoa, that Peter Gordon song IS amazing! Thanks so much for that, definitely never heard it before.

Also, really excited for that ST37 link. Thread is gold.

Garage rock from Champaigne, IL
http://thedirtyfeathers.bandcamp.com/

heavenly dreampop/powerpop thing from sydney, EP out in march, this song is totally beautiful

http://dayravies.bandcamp.com/

Sonoi: most recent band of Adam Busch, formerly of Manishevitz (early Jagjaguwar band, truly great):

http://sonoimusic.com/album/tropics-of-holland

Really cool, atmospheric rock. Occasionally a little "out" but always stately and well-crafted. Both Verlaine and Robert Wyatt influences evident (to me at least).

I like how the Dirty Feathers has a "do not play on your shitty laptop speakers" warning.

http://shop.tkde.net/album/live-i-forsee-the-dark-ahead-if-i-stay
Live album from the descriptively-named Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble!

http://fuguguffu.bandcamp.com/album/darker-rooms
Exquisite noise caused by our own crut!

http://abunai.bandcamp.com/album/round-wound
Krautrock jams from the turn of the century!

awesome psych rock, sounds like something rockadelic would have put out

http://darksun.bandcamp.com/

Never thought to look up Abunai! on Bandcamp. Great band, sadly the band member's post-Abunai! material has been pretty much ignored. Joe had a really good record out on Camera Obscura & Brendan has had a couple of great outfits & recorded a solo album or 2, but don't think any of it has seen the light of day yet.

ok that Dark Sun link is AWESOME!

crut stuff is dope but imma get all rockist and say slightly mo songs, slightly less noize plz