Thread for awesome stuff on Bandcamp that costs money but is still awesome

By popular request on the Free/"Name Your Price" Bandcamp Album Compendium thread, here's a place for you to tell us about great stuff on Bandcamp that can be had for the price of a reasonable donation to the artist. Have at it!

the only thing that youre free from in this thread is music critics?

http://jesu.bandcamp.com/album/jesu-picture-disc-mix-unreleased-original-vision

This is the master that was NOT used for what became the Picture Disc Mix, this was intended to be the master, but was shelved last minute; this master was intentionally sampled at a higher rate, so as to achieve a 'pop' sound / production, unlike the mix to be found on the 'actual' jesu Self Titled, a move which would be an absolute travesty for some! And a move that was decided against at the last minute, so the master was resampled back to the original pitch and sent to be pressed as the Picture Disc. So, this master is unreleased, and available here for the first time, the 'actual' Picture Disc master, is also available here at Bandcamp.

The Picture Disc of the Self Titled Jesu album, was remixed entirely for the LTD ED Picture Disc version (1000 copies), released in 2006. An Alternative mix with quite significant differences to the original album mix; the concept was to remix it more 'cleanly', due to the original mix containing a lot of distortion. There are still clicks, etc in this mix though due to the nature of the original recording. Here, the album is now remastered in 2012, since the original Picture Disc master was intentionally mastered flat.

The catalyst for this entire remix of the album was the pressing plant who were to cut and press the picture disc - with the original master of the S/T, they claimed the original was to max'ed out and distorted to be cut to an picture disc! I was, at the time, intrigued by the concept of a cleaner, and even 'poppier' mix of this album, anyway, so set about cleaning the the thing up. Hence the re-sampled higher speed version; attempting to go even further with this 'pop' concept.
For the record, my personal favourite mix of this album IS the original mix, which is known, universally, as the debut jesu album 'S/T', the mix that made it to CD/Vinyl, etc, etc.

Justin K Broadrick. May 2012.

http://mannequinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mnq-026-s-u-r-v-i-v-e-s-u-r-v-i-v-e-lp

http://drokk.bandcamp.com - A Portishead bloke and a soundtracks bloke take on JUDGE DREDD with Carpenter-esque synth stylings. In contention for album of the year. Yes, I already talked about this one in the free Bandcamp thread and I wasn't supposed to.

http://pilotpriest.bandcamp.com/ - A more danceable take on 80s-style synth soundtracks. Jury's out on it but it's only a buck.

http://worstward.bandcamp.com - Steven R. Smith/Ulaan Kohl/Halaa Strana et al. TABLELANDS is one of the best works of the new century.

http://forleejacksoninspace.bandcamp.com/

Surprised Ned hasn't posted this here already. 96 space rock/psych/electronic/experimental/what-have-you tracks from folks like Roy Montgomery, Windy and Carl, ST37, Primordial Undermind, Subarachnoid Space, et al. Thirty bucks for I don't know how many hours of music. This was conceived as a tribute recording to critic/fan/good egg Lee Jackson, who died earlier this year at a very young age.

Disclaimer, The Roswell Incident (featuring the full original lineup of myself and Elvis Telecom) is on the album. Money from the sales price goes to funding ALS (Lou Gherig's Disease) research.

Ha, I'd missed the thread until now!

It's just under twelve hours of music.

ARE YOU KIDDING ME? #12hours

Wait. This isn't Twitter...

Hahah.

And I am so not kidding.

$1
http://xxyyxx.bandcamp.com/album/xxyyxx

Free Ka-Spel/Pink Dots:

http://legendarypinkdots1.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-denver-19-may-2012

Dammit, free thread is here: Free/"Name Your Price" Bandcamp Album Compendium

Come on, people!

http://vietgrove.bandcamp.com/

Suspicious. I might even know that band.

http://slovenly.bandcamp.com/album/the-psyched-self-titled-lp

"long player" is overstated, as it's like 9 tracks in 20 minutes

yes ned i think you might. so lets hope more people click on it.
i bought it!

*newsflash* bdeep bdeep!

NEW FROM STORMSPELL RECORDS (this came to Mr Veg's email inbox and it was too good not to share)

TAARGA

Authentic 80s Sunset Strip Hair metal. You get both volumes which basically contain all strudio recordings the band made between 1986-1989, plus tons of selected live cuts, some of which exclusive and never published previously:

CD1: Lost & Archives Vol.1 CD
CD2: Lost & Archives Vol.2 CD

Both CDs come fully packaged in jewel cases with 12-page booklets loaded with band story, liner notes, lyrics, archive photos, and tasty custom artwork by Yannick Bouchard.

http://f0.bcbits.com/z/10/75/1075820329-1.jpg

http://stormspell.bandcamp.com/album/lost-and-archives-2cd-set

STUTZ

Cult 80s melodic metal from Ohio. The band had cult following and was on verge of signing a major deal with Geffen records when grunge kiled the music...
This is a massive 3CD box set basically featuring close to everything the band has recorded during their existence (1981-1990):
CD1: Killer CD - contains their "Made in USA" LP 1983 album, originally self-released in miscroscopic quantites and impossible to find nowadays, plus 7" EP 1981, plus bonus tracks
CD2: Marching Into Hell CD - contains "Tearin' Up The Night" 1986 album (previously self-released on cassette tape only) + Bonus tracks.
CD3: Keep Runnin' CD - contains previously unreleased songs, recorded from 1988 to 1990.
All 3 CDs come fully packaged in jewel cases with 12-page booklets loaded with band story, lyrics, archive photos, and killer custom artwork by Yannick Bouchard.

http://f0.bcbits.com/z/15/57/1557918734-1.jpg

http://stormspell.bandcamp.com/album/blood-sweat-and-tears-3cd-box-set

The band had cult following and was on verge of signing a major deal with Geffen records when grunge kiled the music...

I know right? So classic.

those grunge jerks ruined EVERYTHING

I just heard a bunch old time jazz dudes sitting around grumbling about that very thing

Christ. 's albums are available on bandcamp for dirt cheap. The guy that's associated w/boards of canada. some good tracks in there

Link for the previous post: http://christmusic.bandcamp.com/

Mogwai-esque post-rock from Vietnam: http://timekeeper.bandcamp.com

LOVE this band. Live they're more violent than on the album, which I think is the way I like things, in general

http://bellows.bandcamp.com/album/as-if-to-say-i-hate-daylight

also every once in a while he puts up stuff to DL for $ because he is in college and poor.

http://humankindnessoverflowing.bandcamp.com/album/eskimeaux

Good friends wrapping up their first tour in DC as we speak;

A portion of proceeds go to charity...

"For the $5 dollars you will spend on this album $2.50 will provide 5 meals for those in need through Philabundance. $1.50 will go directly to the artist and the other $1.50 will go to future funding of charitable projects with HKO. Additional payment is sincerely appreciated and is distributed in the same ratio."

Talking last weekend to someone about DROKK, and on a similar Carpenter/etc tip he recommended Matthew Akers' The Elders Of New Detroit:

http://matthewakers.bandcamp.com/album/the-elders-of-new-detroit

that sounds cool. Thanks!

http://randomchild.bandcamp.com/album/trials

M0AR BRO-HYPE. Random Child's 3rd album. Metal ahead. 5 buxx0r

Because Shooting Guns' "Down and Out in Detroit" 7" has sold out they've made the track available as a name-your-price:

http://shootingguns.bandcamp.com/album/shooting-guns-cult-of-dom-keller-split-7

friends of mine + i helped out a little with the recording of this one. modest mouse/mountain goats influenced fun indy pop stuff. i really really love this record:

http://megagemdenver.bandcamp.com/album/colors-of-the-west

is anyone else doing the social media thing they have going?

sort of

passively, then?

or thereabouts

http://bandcamp.com/electricsound

Multi-split single-ish EP thing from Small Wonder, Bellows n Eskimeaux

http://theepoch.bandcamp.com/album/walk-away-from-me

i don't think i've mentioned saadi. saadi.

http://saadinyc.bandcamp.com/

(dodecahedron from clotheslines was the first track that really grabbed me, if you want a place to start)

Hawkeyes! Canadian psychedelic doom that just pile riff upon riff upon riff until you get crushed.

http://hawkeyes.bandcamp.com/

Anyone else suddenly getting loads of emails from Bandcamp along the lines of "New album from Arovane"? Started getting them this week with no recollection of ever having signed up to or bought anything from the site.

Not that I can see; just the 2-3 new releases a week from R. Stevie Moore (SLOW DOWN DUDE JESUS)

My buddy Sam made this analog synth record that I think is lovely

http://vaald.bandcamp.com/album/terminals

Collaborative album btw Small Wonder and Sharpless:

http://theepoch.bandcamp.com/album/second-place

Sharpless: http://music.sharplessmusic.com
Small Wonder: http://smallwonder.bandcamp.com

http://sunstonerevolvers.bandcamp.com/

was going to post this on the psych/drone thread but suspected it would be ripped apart for it being too close to brmc, warlocks, dead meadows etc, albeit in a more ramshackle, self produced, jam band kinda groove.
but given this thread has been revived ..
i have listened to this album more this week than anything else, and enjoy it more with each spin.

oh, and i seriously love the artwork as well.

I'm into Night Burger right now

http://nightburger.bandcamp.com/album/burnin-fast

http://canary-records.bandcamp.com

smooth age, from that night burger comp, is very cool. i like the faraway tribal drums and overall menacing vibe. good recommendation.

this is a REALLY good ambient/noise album:
http://droneclone.bandcamp.com/album/droneclone

an old pal's album from a few years back is up on bandcamp now
winter-vacation.bandcamp.com/album/blue-coaching
he's great

http://winter-vacation.bandcamp.com/album/blue-coaching

Sounds really good, Noel!

First track is very much my bag, bubbling and spacy - will listen properly to the whole thing tomorrow when I'm not trying to round up a few more bandcamp purchases and go to bed before 1am (oops, that was 15 minutes ago).

(aagh, I've already spent more money than I told myself I should and I haven't even checked my ever-growing wishlist yet. better go to bed...)

Noel’s album = bought. Last purchase of the day.

Massive thanks everyone for ears and support. Woah!

Can you post a link to your bandcamp Noel?

it was linkified in the first post of the revive but: https://emilstone.bandcamp.com/

Noel, this is SO GOOD.

yeah, it is.
bought and listened to it several times.
nice one noel/emil.
(i always look in my archive for noel, a d forget etc etc)

https://robertturman.bandcamp.com/album/chapter-eleven-1976-1987

never heard of the guy before but he was originally the other member of NON apparently

Debuting in 1988 as a self-released 8xCassette boxset. Chapter Eleven collects the solo recordings (1976 - 1987) from one of the earliest members of the US Industrial Noise scene, coalescing a wide swath of influences and culling experimental techniques into inventive new terrain. Carefully remastered from the original tapes, this deluxe reissue is a long-awaited rescue from obscurity.

I don't know if it's necessarily "awesome," but I do think it has a melancholic beauty to it--I put an album of improvised multi-layered acoustic music (and experimental electronic reconstructions of same) that I did when I was 20 up on Bandcamp. The more important thing is any money folks pay for it is being doubled and donated to bail funds, mutual aid funds, and social justice and civil rights funds:

Thank you, everyone who has picked up my album at Bandcamp--just donated $450 from $225 in album purchases! I'll continue to donate whatever folks pay, and double it--pass it on!https://t.co/xY4zZ2L7fH

— Musicophilia (@musicophiliamix) November 9, 2020

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Robert Turman's Flux got a lot of attention when it was reissued in the 2010ish period. I know it came out on Spectrum Spools eventually but I remember a separate reissue in the years beforehand doing the rounds on Volcanic Tongue etc

The below is from an artist on Sote's label promoting Iranian composers, on which she does some kind of incantation over genuinely innovative sounding electronics. Hard to classify! Instantly wishlisted.
https://zabtesote.bandcamp.com/album/zangaar

One last Bandcamp Friday for this cursed year--so doing the "buy people music on Bandcamp Friday" thing one last time. Had a few ILM participants during earlier Bandcamp Fridays this year--don't be shy!

On Friday, Dec. 4th, 100% of sales at @Bandcamp go to artists/labels!

Retweet w/ a link to a Black artist's music you love on Bandcamp, and we'll buy you an album of your choice by any independent Black artist/group.

Below is a thread of Bandcamp links to the best music of 2020 https://t.co/UxKocovYjR pic.twitter.com/eNRksnl2cl

— Musicophilia (@musicophiliamix) December 2, 2020

For real folks--free music, no strings attached. Just trying to put money in artists' pockwts.

Don't be shy!

this thing is incredible

https://optimomusic.bandcamp.com/album/ghana-glasgow-friendship

Wow, yeah, it is! Thanks for the reco.

yr welcome! still wrapping my head around it

https://dusttodigital.bandcamp.com/album/excavated-shellac-an-alternate-history-of-the-worlds-music

update on Bandcamp Fridays for 2021

https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/bandcamp-fridays-2021

Hey Noel, not sure if your webmail works so I'm just gonna post here - is it cool if I play 'Presence' on my radio show?

is it normal for a band / label not to automatically combine shipping? i'm trying to order three tapes from a label and bandcamp is trying to charge me $12 for shipping. i hate this!

Oh, emil.y I didn't see your post! Well, of course. Oops. xp

Not sure if you got a dl but I'll send a link.

And I think that's standard with shipping on Bandcamp, budo. I don't think the setup is sophisticated enough to automatically combine shipping although I haven't looked at it recently.

idk about that, I'm pretty sure I've lowered per-unit shipping by buying a few things from one label

I did order something from a Swiss record store a while back (via Amazon) and they deliberately sent both items separately, so there might some kind of customs reason?

this is an american label and i'm in USA so not a customs thing –– luckily there was a way to email the label and so we just dealt with it via paypal. i think this might have something to do with what they call a "fan account" vs. an account you use to host your own music (or no music at all, in my case). also my own incompetence is probably at play if i'm being fair. like bandcamp will regularly stop me from streaming records that i've alreay paid for, ON bandcamp. because according to them i don't "own them" ... whatever!

what cha'll got for bandcamp friday?

so far, i'm checking for the jazzgalaktik single that came out in december. nujazz, midtempo house vibes.

am open to recs.

Aw shit that IS today huh.

Gonna browse now

I posted my Bandcamp roundup over here:
Rolling Re-Re-Reconstructed Club Music 2021

Oneida just posted their sprawling epic "Brah Tapes" in digital form. Revisiting now.

following

also i know i've plugged it here before, but if you want some seriously great introspective streetwise chicago hiphop, i can't recommend waldorf and statler enough. they have all their stuff set to free, but you can throw them a fiver if you feel so compelled.

semi-related, you can get the entire windimoto music catalogue (of which the dvs solo album is part of) digitally for less than $20. all chicago peeps, with an assist from detroit.

new darren hayman instrumentals thing - https://darrenhayman.bandcamp.com/album/music-to-watch-news-by

new Second Language comp (mainly for the isan track) - https://secondlanguagemusic.bandcamp.com/album/drifts-flurries-a-second-language-collectanea

not listened yet so not guaranteed awesome.

Superb solo album of ambient soundscape guitar stuff by Nick McCabe.
https://nickmccabe1.bandcamp.com/album/we-are-are-we

You could combine it with this album by the young up and coming guitarist that you may know

https://sund4rsubramanian.bandcamp.com/album/electric-currents

both are name your price

lol even the bandcamp link got googleproofed

Doing this thing again--don't be shy!

Retweet this tweet, and include a link to an album you love by a Black artist on @Bandcamp...

Then on Bandcamp Friday, we'll buy you a digital album/EP of your choice by any independent Black musician(s)!

(Below are links to many amazing records if you need help choosing) https://t.co/UxKocovYjR pic.twitter.com/ITAGwJQmi4

— Musicophilia (@musicophiliamix) February 2, 2021

Thanks for the Nick McCabe tip, great!

What's the etiquette for buying stuff the day after BC Friday? Should I hold off for a day so it doesn't look like I lunched it?

Thanks for the Nick McCabe tip, great!

Def a fan of the McCabe

What's the etiquette for buying stuff the day after BC Friday? Should I hold off for a day so it doesn't look like I lunched it?

― Noel Emits

Ha, I often have this problem as my money-having time is pretty sporadic. As an artist, I honestly don't mind if people don't buy on the bandcamp days. And as a bandcamp stan, I kind of feel fine about giving them their cut too, if you only bought on fee-free days then they'd go bust.

As to upthread, I was cheeky and went ahead and played your track before you'd replied, ha. I'll send a link to the show through to your ilxmail if you like?

The 3 Chairs compilation was my grab. So much goodness, hours of groove.
https://3chairsdetroit.bandcamp.com/album/3-chairs-collection-1997-2013

was going to grab the 3 chairs comp but looks like it's gone now?
hopefully it'll be available again at some point.

Check this out I think it’s awesome https://musicforkeyboards.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-keyboards-vol-vi

Now banned in China?

hey scanner darkly it looks like it’s on rick wilhite’s page now: https://rickwilhite.bandcamp.com/album/3-chairs-collection-1997-2013

awesome, thank you!

i'm curious now what happens when an album you purchased is removed from bandcamp - i guess it just disappears?
i mostly use the sonos app to listen but always make sure to download files as well

Yeah, if you haven't downloaded the files then I think you're out of luck.

shit, I didn't know that was a thing that happened!

on Amazon Music, if you buy a digital album and the album then gets removed from their library, you still remain access to the streaming digital media, and can still download it (you just can't buy or access the album if you never had previously).

if Bandcamp shit outright disappears, I have a lot of downloading to do to my Google Drive. not sure how they can get away with that since they advertise you getting free digital access to the music along with your mp3s/FLACs, which implies some level of permanency.