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

Just now RT w shout-out for https://jlin.bandcamp.com/, but the DM thing is fucked some way---good old Twitter, oh well, check out jlin yall!!

From the Gary, Indiana footwork community, she's one of the best electronic composer-producers, or my favorite of the past few years, at least.

To my amazement the out-of-print This Heat box set (limited to 1000) Out of Cold Storage is available on Bandcamp as a physical box set with digital download. The box set costs $2 less than the digital-only version. Guess which one I bought.

that is awesome, such great music

Their pricing is bizarre - OOCS includes all the albums and EPs, but it's $70 for the digital only, $68 for the physical box set plus full digital - or for the connoisseur, buy the digital box plus digital releases of all the material already in the box for $74 - 45% off!

Thou collected all their Nirvana covers and put them on Bandcamp:

https://roboticempire.bandcamp.com/album/blessings-of-the-highest-order

dammit, i really did not log on tonight planning to spend $70 on a This Heat box set in a dead format

With inflation, I gotta think that makes it cheaper than in 2004 or 2006 or whenever that box came out. Although I don't actually remember what it cost...

Re: this little effort:

On 6/5, all of @Bandcamp's $ goes to artists, and on 6/19 to the @NAACP_LDF

Retweet this w/ a link to a Black artist you love on Bandcamp, and I will buy you an album + donate $10 here: https://t.co/PmLe0JwWJg

This is a thread of artists you should hear & support pic.twitter.com/xzQQH1g7Bd

— Musicophilia (@musicophiliamix) June 4, 2020

I'm so happy to say that with <1 day notice before the 6/5 "Bandcamp Day," we managed to get 36 folks participate, buying 72 albums so far, with a further $1k donation so far. Another $1,000 coming, and trying for another 60+ people who want albums, for the Juneteenth "Bandcamp Day". It's a small thing, I know, but given preexisting health concerns prevent my participating more directly during COVID-19, I'm glad I could do *something*.

xps thanks for the JLin headsup, expanded my library of her albums threefold

I love Jlin so much.

Please, totally participate again emil.y!

I might take you up on this on Juneteenth, heh.

great initiative, Soundslike!

can't believe I didn't get to checking out on Bandcamp yesterday. Their site was so slammed, it was tough to listen to much. Ah well, I'll get a longer list ready for their upcoming events.

Rough Trade Publishing/Bank Robber Music

This is incredible. We cannot thank each and every one of you enough. In one day we raised over $12,000 for Black Visions Collective!

This Friday, 6/19--Juneteenth--Bandcamp is directing their usual 10%-15% from all sales to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund! To support that initiative, to support Black artists, and to support direct day-to-day needs in the struggle for justice and equity for all Black people, I'm doing a small effort via my Musicophilia blog, per the below.

Basically, you share the below tweet and point people to a (or many) favorite Black artists on Bandcamp, and me and Chicago producer Mike Schpitz will buy you (2) albums by Black artists of your choice on Bandcamp, and donate $20 in your honor to the organizations in the link below. I hope you'll join in, and spread the word!

So far on June 5th (when Bandcamp ran a similar initiative, with all money going directly to artists/labels), we heard from 36 people, bought 72 albums/eps, and donated $1,000. We're hoping to get to +/- 200, and will be donating another $1,000 no matter what.

On 6/19, Juneteenth, @Bandcamp's % goes to the @NAACP_LDF

RT this thread w/ a link to a Black artist's work you love on Bandcamp, and @MikeSchpitz and I will buy you 2 digital albums + send $20 here: https://t.co/PmLe0JwWJg

These are some artists who amaze and inspire (thread): pic.twitter.com/Hq9jUUFGol

— Musicophilia (@musicophiliamix) June 17, 2020

Also, made a mix since 6/5 of my some of the best music I've heard of 2020 so far, that might be of interest to folks in filling up your cart for 6/19's Juneteenth Bandcamp Day:

'Old Souls - Part XI' (2020):https://t.co/tyV937dzyd

w/ @NAEEMmusic @NnamdiOgbonnaya @ghostpoet @Bartees_Strange @zsela @moormother @RoyKinsey @beautypill @_zeroh @blakeful @kilamanzego @MABScle @terencenance @KassaOverall @doitlikedua @serpentwithfeet @MosesSumney pic.twitter.com/n3Rg83WqW6

— Musicophilia (@musicophiliamix) June 13, 2020

FREE MUSIC, folks--please don't hesitate to join in! No catches, just trying to get artists paid and get folks to take a low-risk chance on some new music.

OK--today's the day! Don't be shy! There's no catch--I'm just trying to A) help Black artists get some much needed $ during the age of Spotify paying nothing and COVID ending shows; and B) help music lovers hear stuff they'll like and hopefully support going forward. (2) FREE ALBUMS of your choice, and we'll donate $20 to organizations that really need it!

On 6/19, Juneteenth, @Bandcamp's % goes to the @NAACP_LDF

RT this thread w/ a link to a Black artist's work you love on Bandcamp, and @MikeSchpitz and I will buy you 2 digital albums + send $20 here: https://t.co/PmLe0JwWJg

These are some artists who amaze and inspire (thread): pic.twitter.com/Hq9jUUFGol

— Musicophilia (@musicophiliamix) June 17, 2020

*bump for soundslike*

This is a great idea Soundslike...just have to figure out what I want!

bump

and

is it really alright for me to take part when my account has like 10 followers?

https://tekdotlun.bandcamp.com/album/now-thats-what-i-call-a-tek-lun-remix
https://knxwledge.bandcamp.com/album/vgms-prt-1

hm, the This Heat box arrived and it’s a black card box with an inkjet of the front and back covers stuck on by hand. CDs and book are all present and correct, but it’s not the box they showed on the site. I guess I’m glad to support them though. As long as it *is* them of course.

That's a bit shoddy. Is the version you have on Discogs? I'd feel inclined to add it so people know.

I've wondered in the past about some reissues with no real indication they're legit. Anyone know how much checking there is behind the scenes for that sort of thing?

(There are two editions of Abfahrt Hinwil - Links Berge Rechts Seen on bandcamp and I guess I should not be a cheapskate even though I only want a digital copy and buy the one with more "deluxe anniversary vinyl repressing" type details rather than the cheaper electronic-only one with no blurb, just to be slightly more sure some of my cash is going to the right people.

Also a couple of years back a bandcamp popped up promising Solid Space Space Museum vinyl preorders and it was frustrating because I wanted one but up to that point word had been that the people involved didn't want anything to do with it and it would never see the light of day officially, and I didn't want to give money to bootleggers - I passed on it and happily it now has a legit reissue through Dark Entries)

tomorrow is another bandcamp day!

One more time:

On 7/3 all $ spent at @Bandcamp goes to artists/labels, and @MikeSchpitz and I will buy you (2) digital albums by of your choice by Black artists!

Just retweet w/ a link to a favorite album by a Black artist.

Goal is 78 albums! 6/5+6/19, we bought 132 albums--keep it going! pic.twitter.com/FxNrWj7DYu

— Musicophilia (@musicophiliamix) July 2, 2020

i posted this to my twitter as part of soundslike's dealio, but i'll reup it here too in the name of being thorough: https://windimoto.bandcamp.com/album/dvs-4-alderman-bandcamp-exclusive-expanded-edition — it's awesome chicago hiphop by a bunch of guys who just love the music. my friend greg (treblefree) did a chunk of the production on it and he's one of the tightest hiphop producers i've ever heard. i'm not just saying because i know him; his stuff is extremely top gear.

also check the other releases on the proper windimoto bandcamp for some bubbling house grooves: https://windimoto.bandcamp.com

he passed away a couple years ago, but sean haley's solo album is still worthwhile and he was a chicago icon: https://windimoto.bandcamp.com/album/ronin-the-journey-of-the-lost-warrior

i feel like a shitheel for posting this because i make an appearance on the album, but you can get treblefree's super fun hiphop album from many years back. it's just a lot of detroit and chicago guys doing what they love: https://treblefree.bandcamp.com/album/the-return-of-the-dirty-cymbals (he also has a few other archival kind of things posted)

there's also treblefree and dvs' collaborative group, waldorf & statler. my favorite thing of theirs is
Nigga I Know James​!​!​! which is made up of all james brown samples. super fun stuff, but they have most of the releases on free download, obviously to avoid any legalities. but they do have volume four on name your price, if you feel so compelled.

anyway. long post. sorry.

tomorrow is another bandcamp day!

You'd never know from the complete silence from all the labels I follow.

(this is sarcasm)

The wonderful Skeletons have a new one coming out and the sneak track sounds pretty promising.

https://shinkoyo.bandcamp.com/album/if-the-cat-come-back

oh golly, look who i found hiding out on bandcamp: it's my favorite member of the back eyed peas, kim hill!

Compilation sampler of stuff on my label. Free/Pay Whatchalike until tomorrow (Saturday).

https://templo.bandcamp.com/album/data-a-templo-bandcamp-sampler

I said I was gonna try to spend less this go 'round, but now I find myself sorely tempted by Three Lobed Recordings' 20th anniversary subscription package for a cool $185 :|

yep, bandcamp friday again — 100% of sales go directly to the artists / labels until midnight.

i'm gonna buy up the sault discography, the cleo sol album, and some stray william tyler and sam prekop odds and ends. hooray for music!

this rules:
https://sonicyouth.bandcamp.com/album/rarities-2

My list today - definitely The Bathers' Lagoon Blues, maybe rebuys of their Sunpowder and Kelvingrove Baby albums. Loscil's coast/range/arc for an extra track and different art. A new Notwist 3 track EP called Ship and Styrofoam's Political Songs release. Will listen to the Spirit Fest albums (Notwist & Tenniscoats members) to maybe buy one or more. Think that's all on my immediate radar.

Spirit Fest albums (Notwist & Tenniscoats members)

Wait, what is this???

https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/admas-sons-of-ethiopia-interview

Admas— 1984 DC based Ethiopian music album that has been reissued

https://spiritfest.bandcamp.com/ - only found out about this side-project when the Ship EP was released. Kind of fills what they've been doing in the empty years between recent Notwist albums. Three albums and some singles.

With “Mirage Mirage“, avant-pop quintet Spirit Fest gifts their listeners with their richest, deepest record to date. It’s no surprise when you consider the group’s membership: Saya and Ueno, aka the duo Tenniscoats; Markus Acher, best known as singer of The Notwist; Mat Fowler, who plays with Jam Money and Bons; and Cico Beck, who’s making music with Joasinho, Aloa Input & The Notwist. If that feels like a heavyweight line-up, that’s because it is – yet the overarching mood of Spirit Fest is one of lightness and joy, of experiment and pure pop pleasure.

I also said I'd spend less this time round and then I already bought a bundle of physical CDs to be shipped from the US. Hope to buy a handful more digital albums too but nothing specific in mind as yet.

Last time round I bought mainly older stuff, some of which I'd been listening to for years so it seemed like time to go legit (Dryft - "Cell", Abfahrt Hinwil "Links Berge Rechts Seen" which got reissued but I couldn't quite justify the glossy vinyl since my record deck is broken, some Dark Entries reissues: Victrola, Solid Space, Lives of Angels), so thinking of going with mostly new stuff this time round.

Thanks for the Notwist-related recs - will take a listen.

Also, sorry, I already plugged this on an IDM thread where the artist had been mentioned previously, but while I'm here...

ilkae has his/their entire discography of offkilter electronic (I hate describing music, too bad for posting on ILM) at only $9.15 for Bandcamp Friday and is in a bad housing situation at present so any $$ will help out:
https://ilkae.bandcamp.com/

comments from other bandcamp listeners who apparently hate writing blurbs less than I do: "squiggly, streaky grooves" "strong beats" "melancholy melodies" "a fucking masterpiece" "got me into drawing utility poles"

I'm more excited by the Tenniscoats members, though I do like the Notwist well enough too.

Will check out ilkae, definitely could be up my street.

you guys mentioned the notwist and one of the sam prekop odds and ends that i was considering is a split featuring one of the guys from the notwist. i haven't heard it yet, but just fyi.

Voters’ Rights Benefit Album With Songs by R.E.M., Hayley Williams, Phoebe Bridgers, Dropping Friday for Just 24 Hours [Exclusively on Bandcamp]

https://variety.com/2020/music/news/r-e-m-phoebe-bridgers-voters-rights-benefit-album-1234758996/

new magazine edited by Grouper's Liz Harris

https://grouper.bandcamp.com/merch/presence-issue-1-in-the-mist

read about this in bandcamp's monthly experimental roundup--secret drum band's chuva

https://secretdrumband.bandcamp.com/album/chuva

heavy heavy intricate drums with synth warblings and mantra-like vocals. pretty mesmerizing.

picked up Mortal Wound's demo from 2018 and an Axeslasher album

(pvmic yea yea)

I've been financially unable to continue the "buy people music by Black artists on Bandcamp Day" effort--but a very cool music publication Hullaballoo has picked up the baton last month, and again this month:

hey team (tommy here) we're doin it again - quote rt today with a bandcamp link to a digital album by a black artist you've got your eye on, and we'll pick it up for you! all money goes direct to artists and labels on bandcamp today. we'll pick up the tab on the first 40 qrts! pic.twitter.com/An31cVMvwA

— HULLABALOO (@hullytweets) September 4, 2020

They're approaching it a little differently--you retweet sharing the album you want, and they'll buy it for you. Help spread the word about artists, get free music, get artists paid--win, win, win!

Ah, that's great that somebody's taken up the mantle, you did brilliant work. Sorry that you've not been able to continue, hope the situation isn't too bad for you.

https://christophheemann.bandcamp.com/

omg thank you so much, huge fan here