Free/"Name Your Price" Bandcamp Album Compendium

i can't believe this isn't on here already, now i can't remember where i heard of it, but it's fantastic

http://literature.bandcamp.com/album/arab-spring

fantastic c86ey indiepop with marr-ish guitars, one of my favourites of the year

fucking loving this 4 tracker that is free.

http://thedirtynil.bandcamp.com/

Been too long, the fields have grown fallow.

http://outofprintmoncton.bandcamp.com/
A whole bunch of out-of-print (as the label name would imply) punk/hard rock/metal from Canada! Been enjoying Mood Cadillac and Earth A.D..

http://radarmenfromthemoon.bandcamp.com/
Heavy instrumental space rock!

http://artascatharsis.bandcamp.com/album/huxwhukw
Crazy heavy/mathy post-rock/metal!

http://toldslant.bandcamp.com/album/still-water

Just dropped now. Felix is the reason I know 90% of the bands I love

WARNING: L0-F1

self-promo - finally finished uploading my old band's entire back catalog to bandcamp:

http://fakefictions.bandcamp.com

Where would you recommend we start with The Fake Fictions?

these are not free but whatever

http://freelunch.bandcamp.com/album/window-mirror

http://batcave.bandcamp.com/album/batcave-ep

^^^^ damnit fuck these are so good

Ha thanks for asking - I'm proudest of the Oja Kodar EP and the Krakatoa album.

great moody/expansive beats:
http://snaaacs.bandcamp.com/album/whenever-ep

http://locrian.bandcamp.com
Complete discography of drone/noise/ambient terrorists! (Except for their latest album, the rest of it is free)

http://drabmajesty.bandcamp.com/
Next-level post punk/goth stuff featuring members of The Nocturnes!

http://nemabarikada.bandcamp.com/album/revoluce-bez-emoc-2003
Czech crust punk!

Fresh meat!

http://monobrowmanband.bandcamp.com/album/bennington-triangle-blues
Heavy instrumental psych!

http://carterusm.bandcamp.com/
Cheeky British indie rock legends' live album!

http://spamtron.bandcamp.com/album/d-pad
Chiptooooooooooons!

I know I've talked up this guy on here before, but I feel the need to proselytize his latest composition, the soundtrack for Double Dragon Neon – super awesome 80s action movie/video game synth/party guitar soundtrack radness!

http://virt.bandcamp.com/album/double-dragon-neon

i've talked to a number of people lately who have haven't heard of bandcamp, and it always surprises me...i think of it as being ubiquitous now, but it seems like there's a real divide between music nerds (who will google "[band name] bandcamp" as a matter of course) and normal folks who have never encountered it.

Well when you say 'music, online, purchase directly' most people will think "Oh iTunes." Maybe Amazon.

i think of Bandcamp kind of like the non-rap equivalent of Dat Piff, if you listen to certain stuff that's not going to be on iTunes, you familiarize yourself with site(s) like that, if not you're good w/ iTunes.

Darren Hayman's field recordings of outdoor swimming pools: http://darrenhayman.bandcamp.com/album/field-recordings-for-lido

^that made for some excellent decompression after a day working on music stuff.

i released a free single last week: http://chants.bandcamp.com/album/kid-colossus-hourglass

heavy synth vibes on the A side, 8 bit arpeggios + bata samples + shifting beat feels on the B side.

I'm enjoying Monobrow's latest slice of instrumental doom:

http://monobrowmanband.bandcamp.com/album/bennington-triangle-blues

It's not going to change the world, but sometimes you just need big down-tuned riffs without anybody growling or caterwauling over them.

*points seven posts up* :P

It was above my bookmark. Ces't la vie.

ace slacker/garage rock from perth via melbourne

http://miningboom.bandcamp.com/

Here's two from me. Enjoy!

Minimal dark electro
http://4-4-2music.bandcamp.com/album/the-master-drummer

Female-fronted electro metal
http://cherry2000.bandcamp.com/

Oh yeah, also:

Ambient/dub inflected weird stuff from the early 90's - fans of Demdike Stare may like.
http://4-4-2music.bandcamp.com/album/bliss

All 3 links are pay nothing / pay what you want.

on a label but great, w/e:

http://redvenicerecords.bandcamp.com/album/wakegaze

(Most of) this great punk/hardcore/metal label has gone "name your price" for the time being. I recommend everything by Ghoul, Vitamin X, ANS, and Voetsek.
http://downloads.tankcrimes.com/

http://owlbrotherhood.bandcamp.com/album/owl-demo-tape
Psychedelic doom demos! Sound quality is pretty rough, but the potential is there.

Mates of mine:
http://greyhairs.bandcamp.com/
(supergroup of a bunch of different bands going back to old-school rock fun)

(Also the picture for the track 'Ship' features me, hahaha.)

that Red Venice label is local to me, I'd not thought abt it for years until he emailed me the other day, seems he's been busy issuing cassettes of noise with gross songtitles

this is also on a label but not out yet, it's Irish and rules hard, best hardcore-at-the-pace-of-early-Swans horridness I've heard in a while: http://artforblind.bandcamp.com/album/w-lfbait

Half Dissolved single: http://randomchild.bandcamp.com/

It's on the punkier side of metal

I-F's Viewlexx label is on here and thru it you can get most of the great releases from Legowelt's defunct StrangeLife Records. http://shop.intergalactic.fm/

http://necronomicon.bandcamp.com/album/the-queen-of-death
Occult psychedelic stuff!

Ha, I was just listening to the Necronomicon! From Brazil!

Love Owl, they just played Chicago last Thur but sadly I couldn't make it. Their potential is indeed fulfilled on their recent album (and single from earlier in the year), not free but you do get a vinyl LP with the dl: http://owlbrotherhood.bandcamp.com/album/first-album

http://maradoom.bandcamp.com/
Swedish stoner doom demo!

that's some awesome Nirvana shirt action there, emil.y!

http://therandomkids.bandcamp.com/
Indie pop duo. They grew up playing in bands together in Oak Park, went off to different colleges and record together during breaks. I was impressed by their first album in 2010 (also free on their page), but this is something else. Seriously great stuff.

http://xinaxurner.bandcamp.com/
Self-described "cunty noisy drag-diva-opera house". They're even better live.

http://replenishrecords.bandcamp.com/
Young record label, everything free (for now)! Seems to specialize in post-rock and post-metal, currently enjoying Bio Crisis's hybrid of post-rock and D-beat hardcore.

http://estramonio666.bandcamp.com/
Attention Fastnbulbous! Spanish throwback doom!

http://cosmonauttransfer.bandcamp.com/album/icons-of-sci-fi-cd-remasters
Kraut-style ambience!

Tempted to throw a SPIN style wrench in the works and name "Bandcamp" as my album of the year.

Not really, but found so much great stuff there this year.

YOU'RE WELCOME

<i> Bio Crisis</i>

this is (unintentionally) kinda hilarious, like naming your band EARTH HAZARD or something

Or Earth Crisis!

brb, getting my BIO CRISIS head tattoo

i put a couple songs on bandcamp today: http://westernblot.bandcamp.com

Ha, the one thing that bugs the shit out of me about Bandcamp is there's no volume setting. It's set so much louder than my Mediamonkey, and I sometimes forget. So I just scared the Krampus out of my workmates with the blood curdling scream that opens up Estramonio!

Magicicada - Pre

http://primitivepatterns.bandcamp.com/album/pre

not free on bandcamp, but available for free download here: http://magicicada.com/

http://perturbator.bandcamp.com/album/i-am-the-night
New album from awesome 80s cyberpunk synthmaster!