Free/"Name Your Price" Bandcamp Album Compendium

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

i like the noise! and the songs, but i appreciate the ability to do both (well) a whole lot.

so do i! it was only a 'slightly'

LL otm; i listened to the first five tracks of the fuguguffu album and it sounded p incredible.

another vote for dark sun here too, while we're at it -- it was perfect to listen to while i puttered around in the early evening and tried to forget about work.

http://papir.bandcamp.com/album/papir
Recommended when you download one of the Dark Suns albums! Basically sounds like you'd expect!

http://istimerealrecordings.bandcamp.com
Homemade psychedelia!

OH THIS IS CONVENIENT:

http://theepoch.bandcamp.com/

^ Just went live. Cover art by me.

But seriously. "Label" comp; feat. Sharpless, Bellows and Small Wonder (and some other stuff inc. Maxo, who is a 8-bit dude and weirdly prolific)

Sharpless:
http://jackgreenleaf.bandcamp.com/

Bellows:
http://bellows.bandcamp.com/releases

Small Wonder:
http://smallwonder.bandcamp.com/

Maxo:
http://maxoisnuts.bandcamp.com/

I've actually kinda stopped writing pop songs :/ I recorded all those vocal tracks when I was 20.

crut, your voice was a truly delightful surprise. much deeper than i expected!

^^^^

I have to admit, I thought a few of the 'pop' songs were inspired by John Maus

Wiht - The Harrowing of the North
http://wihtleeds.bandcamp.com/album/the-harrowing-of-the-north

Stoner/psych, two long instrumental songs. I'm torn between feeling like a fuckwit for missing this year (I saw the good reviews in blogs, just totally spaced on checking it out) and being delighted to have found something new and great.

this PAST year

Brotherhood Of Sleep - Dark As Light
http://brotherhoodofsleep.bandcamp.com/album/dark-as-light

Stoner/psych. This one was on my list, but may not have been on Bandcamp when I checked previously.

On the same tip as Brotherhood of Sleep:

http://spelljammer.bandcamp.com/album/inches-from-the-sun

http://threemileisland.bandcamp.com/

^played with these guys last night. Their set was a wildly hallucinatory mix of drone-metal and sampled film dialogue (mostly from obv sources: Network, og Willy Wonka, etc) but now am listening to Transcendental Hamburger and there's a bit of that (along with a modicum of slap bass) but it is much more straightforward stripped down stoner metal. No guitars; only bass and drums. Digging it quite a bit. Hella nice guys, too.