Free/"Name Your Price" Bandcamp Album Compendium

guy i went to college with -- pretty good!
http://martinroyle.bandcamp.com/

just switched my 2010 record to free/name-your-price:
http://chants.bandcamp.com

it's a weirdo kitchen-sink electronic record. all live instruments, elements of jazz, dub, dance, breaks, morricone rock, etc.

This record is one of the best things I've heard all damn year. Instrumetal doom of the highest order (yes, I dropped the n from instrumental on purpose). Feel the riffage of Iron Mtn:

http://ironmtn.bandcamp.com/album/iron-mtn

Fantastic Finnish psych/kraut dudes with a hilarious made-up bio that claims they've been around since 1970 and that Andreas Baader plays bass for them.

http://hiskodetria.bandcamp.com/album/static-raw-power-kraut-demo

really like that album cover

or album art. I guess it's not really a cover for anything.

Thanks for the recommendations, guys, this stuff is great!

Meanwhile, I have a request – anyone find any good Zombi/Goblin type stuff for free download on there? I've been looking for some.

Fresh crop!

http://quilt.bandcamp.com/
Nerdy folk-prog!

http://thehangedmanandthemoon.bandcamp.com/album/just-one-shot
Jazzy psych!

http://witchescoven.bandcamp.com/
Throwbacky metal!

http://witchstone.bandcamp.com/album/ep
Sludge/doom EP

http://digdown.bandcamp.com/album/live
live new orleans-style brass band

http://talesofmurderanddust.bandcamp.com/
Scandinavian shoegaze! With a sitar!

My friend has been running a twitter account called audiocloud based around a very similar idea to this thread - he personally curates a selection of bandcamp links to freely available independent music that he's enjoying, laying it out nicely using the album art embedded in each tweet and the twitter 'favourites' facility. Although he doesn't use ILX, I have shown him this thread for interest & inspiration and because it fitted with what he'd been doing for a while, and thought that you folks might enjoy his take on it too...

https://twimg0-a.akamaihd.net/profile_images/1226251422/audiophileRADIOblue.jpg

Only tangentially related question: Is there a way to adjust the volume when streaming on Bandcamp pages?

http://digdown.bandcamp.com/album/live
live new orleans-style brass band

― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Monday, April 16, 2012 12:54 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i finally remembered to listen to this and it's great

http://olivetroopsos.bandcamp.com/album/atol

^^ post-rave/droney improvisations

New Roswell Incident track up today for those who wish to drone.

http://theroswellincident.bandcamp.com/album/high-orbital

There's probably one in there I missed, too.

Does Bandcamp do subscriptions/notifications and I just missed that?

i finally remembered to listen to this and it's great

thanks nick! i think it's pretty representative of how the band sounds live, warts & all (lots of warts).

Talk about sleeping on a band for nearly 20 years! Snail recorded their debut at Razor's Edge in SF, where Sleep recorded Holy Mountain, put out an EP, disbanded, got back together and released Blood in 2009, and now Terminus. Only available at name yr price temporarily.

http://snailhq.bandcamp.com/album/terminus

Blood was great! Have to give Terminus a go.

That's pretty good, though on the busy side, at least the intro track. I'm still much more into the languid/doomed side of the stonerverse.

New Bellows single:

http://bellows.bandcamp.com/track/see-bright-be-fine

http://sunpreachers.bandcamp.com/album/faces-of-ashes
French stoner/psych. Really kicks on on "Nail King".

http://trippywicked.bandcamp.com/album/going-home
St Albans band Trippy Wicked & the Cosmic Children of the Knight formed in 2006, and play bluesy stoner rock with a touch of sludge/doom, along the lines of Wo Fat. 2009 album Movin On is worth hearing too.

http://drokk.bandcamp.com

Okay, it's not free unless you stream, but it's fiiiiiiiiiiiiiine. 70s-80s SF synth soundtrack paradise.

Whoa, it's been a while. Here's some good stuff:

http://perturbator.bandcamp.com/album/terror-404
80s John Carpenter/Zombi-esque synth soundtrack stuff! Name is dumb, music isn't!

http://biomass.bandcamp.com/
Epic, repetitive Kraut jams!

http://animalweapon.bandcamp.com/album/good-luck
Chill, glitchy electronica!

http://guacho.bandcamp.com/album/vol-i
Toasty stoner jams, man!

http://weareape.bandcamp.com/album/the-dirger
Heavy stoner jams, man!

http://re-stoned.bandcamp.com/album/vermel
Instrumental stoner jams, man!

Perturbator is the winner in the bunch so far. Perfect flipside to the DROKK record.

Yeah, they really nail that 80s soundtrack vibe without turning into "chill wave" or whatever.

ha perturbator is sick

The EP is pretty good, too – eight bit cover of "I Ran!"

Here's some more stuff along those lines. Apparently it is called "dream wave." Or something:

http://alphaboymusic.bandcamp.com/album/electronic-feelings

http://playmaker.bandcamp.com/album/future-to-fantasy

http://adderallcanyonly.fieldhymns.com/album/fists-of-dayton

Dreamgazewavechillbaton. Core.

I wish people would stop naming things that I might actually want to listen to things that make me never want to listen to them.

namegate.

namewave

in that vein, I also wish "bandcamp" was called something better than "bandcamp," b/c it really is a good platform

word

namename

Alpha Boy isn't bad so far, but it's not the instant smash hit that Perturbator was. I want to say there's something twee about it that's keeping me from diving in entirely, but that's ridiculous, right?

No, I feel the same way. I think that that's the "wave" part.

I've been scouring Bandcamp for stuff they really scratches that John Carpenter, synthesizer itch, and Perturbator (God, I wish they had a better name) are one of the only ones I found that really do it in a satisfying way. A lot of the others feel like they have this kind of indie/hipster sensibility to them that puts a layer of distance between the music and the listener. of the three I linked above, I feel like the Adderall Canyonly captures that sense of digital dread the best.

And DROKK. DROKK is mighty.

Perturbator is a pretty awful, but fitting name. And I passed them along to Benjamin Marra, who does a comic called NIGHT BUSINESS which bleeds this stuff. He seems to dig it.

Adderall Canyonly isn't bad, though. I'm officially calling this digitaldreadwave, even though it's trying to sound like it was recorded on analog equipment.

in that vein, I also wish "bandcamp" was called something better than "bandcamp," b/c it really is a good platform

― this guy's a gangsta? his real name's mittens. (Hurting 2), Wednesday, May 30, 2012 4:34 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

i was talking to someone recently who confessed to being turned off by the name Band Camp, which kind of surprised me because while it's not especially ideal or inspired, it's a good functional name and not something i had to grudgingly get used to saying/hearing constantly the way i did with "myspace" or "twitter" or a hundred other obnoxiously named web platforms.

(1) it reminds me of American Pie
(2) it makes me picture all of the bands using it as chubby dorks

i played in school band and went to band camp (thankfully for the last time just after American Pie was released) and got horrendously sick of hearing "one time at band camp" jokes, and that association still doesn't really occur to me or grate that much re: the site's name

and i mean, if that's the first website you've seen that you imagine being populated by chubby dorks...

I think there's a larger problem with internet music marketing of removing too much of the mystery and danger from music. Posting your album on a site called "band camp" definitely contributes to that kind of result.

I could care. I've found more music out of Bandcamp this year than any other single source. Not to mention publishing my own work.

bandcamp is OK but i really miss myspace & wish something with more of its functions would replace it instead of this slick stubbornly minimalist thing. drifting through bands through their friend bands, getting in touch with cool bands to play out of town shows, were really positive aspects & good uses of the internet