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

here are a bunch of things i've discovered over there over the past year or so: http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/tagged/bandcamp-monday

holy cow I have spent a lot of money on this site

The Resonars are a recent discovery, garage psych/power pop with great vocal harmonies worthy of The Hollies from Tucscon, been around since 1991.

They have their entire discography on cassette (and I presume any download) for $30:
https://theresonars1.bandcamp.com/album/the-complete-resonars

Compilation on Trouble In Mind from last year:
https://theresonars1.bandcamp.com/album/the-greatest-songs-of-the-resonars

Their 7 albums (possibly counting Butterscotch Cathedral side project) are consistently solid. My favorite is:
https://theresonars1.bandcamp.com/album/that-evil-drone

taking notes for when I go home this afternoon:

Drag City stuff
Sahelsounds stuff
the Ideologic Organ label
Grouper
Nurse With Wound
Fela
The Ex - this version of Moa Anbessa has a couple extra tracks not on vinyl, such a killer album
Jessika Kenney's Samar is digital only
Eyvind Kang - I still need Athlantis

just bought some stuff via https://badabingrecords.bandcamp.com/ (which is donating their half of proceeds today to Nigerian Muslim Association of New York)

ooh good call, I need that Dead C comp

I have a couple of things:

All of our share from the Slum of Legs bandcamp will be donated to Right to Remain, a charity fighting to stop deportations from the UK.

I have a track on Rhinoceritis, which was already a charity comp, donating their proceeds to both Border Angels and Forward Together. It's full of Ladyz in Noyz goodness.

Meantime just a general recommendation: Violet Cold. Some dude from Azerbaijan who loves him his black metal, post-rock and shoegaze and puts it together pretty nicely. (Sure, post-Alcest etc., but still works.)

https://violetcold.bandcamp.com/album/anomie

Back on today's fundraising -- Ba Da Bing subsidiary Even More Important put all its releases (limited lathe cut singles) up for name your price:

https://evenmoreimportant.bandcamp.com/

There's a one-day only Declining Winter oddities collection: https://thedecliningwinter.bandcamp.com/album/hurled-to-the-curb

I was finally tempted to buy the A New Line (Related) album: https://homeassemblymusic.bandcamp.com/album/s-t

Bought this a couple of days ago, too: https://homenormal.bandcamp.com/album/love-retained

xp awesome

I bought 3 jazz or jazz-adjacent albums today:

Josef Leimberg, Astral Progressions: https://worldgalaxyrecords.bandcamp.com/album/astral-progressions

Sons of Kemet, Lest We Forget What We Came Here To Do: https://sonsofkemet.bandcamp.com/album/lest-we-forget-what-we-came-here-to-do

Chip Wickham, La Sombra: https://chipwickham.bandcamp.com/album/la-sombra

YES to the Sons of Kemet

Don't forget Dust to Digital, they have tons of excellent offerings on bandcamp

https://dusttodigital.bandcamp.com/

Soundway too https://soundwayrecords.bandcamp.com/

Or you could visit the massive amount of records of one person
may i recommend:
https://paalnilssen-love.bandcamp.com/
https://worstward.bandcamp.com/

so many options!!

oh man those Dust To Digital releases will put me over my budget, thanks I think?

If you don't have Music of Morocco, I think it's worth the $ and the dl comes with a pdf that is excellent reading

Had no idea Soundway was on Bandcamp! I just tweeted a list of 10 recommended titles. (I'm @burn_amb on Twitter.)

i just followed you :) the cumbia comp never gets old. none of their stuff gets old for me tbh

nice, i remember really having to dig for those Ghana Soundz comps in the cd era

https://cathnor.bandcamp.com/album/boring-embroidery

you like AMM? this is AMM-like

The ACLU thing was a nice success, they raised over a $mil.

I forgot to mention this, which also came out yesterday -- Finnish band who have evolved from shoegaze/space rock/Kosmische to full-on psych prog. Additionally, they also made their 2014 album Ujubasajuba Name your Price available, and their first album is free.

https://kaironirse.bandcamp.com/album/ruination

They're great, btw, I've pre-ordered (physical copies of) Ruination and Ujubasajuba already.

can rec a lot of good proggy stuff if anyone cares. it's a tad more expensive though

― frogbs

DO IT!

"White Rose" is like Skittles lightly laced with psychedelics. Love this.

https://moonduo.bandcamp.com/track/white-rose

The ACLU thing was a nice success, they raised over a $mil.

People bought for over one million worth of music that day but ACLU is "only" getting 12% of that, the rest still goes to the artists, except for the ones who also decided to give their share that day (which amounts to about 400 labels/artists, so it's not negligible).

ooh new Ondatrópica album coming on Soundway. The three tracks already available are tremendous.

New Necks - Unfold. In sort of Popol Miles mode.

The FLAC is 24bit, which is nice.

That's THE Necks.

https://glisteningexamples.bandcamp.com/album/the-pilgrim

^^^ that is incredible

https://noticerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/excess-of-vision-unreleased-recordings-2005-2014

Joseph Clayton Mills has been doing fantastic stuff with Haptic, and the recent collaboration with Marvin Tate (The Process) is reallly good.

Been really enjoying 'modulus' by exm over the last few days:

https://touched.bandcamp.com/album/modulus

Recommended if you like the melodic end of post-Confield Autechre.

Proceeds go to Macmillan Cancer Support too!

Charalambides have a Bandcamp page - re-release of YIH is on there...

https://charalambides.bandcamp.com/releases

I'm gonna pimp my friend's Bandcamp album here since few people are interested in clicking on the thread I created:

https://brianchurch.bandcamp.com/album/then-that-soon-i-see

I interviewed pianist Jason Moran about why he releases music directly to Bandcamp now, after being signed to Blue Note for almost 20 years, and why he charges I interviewed pianist Jason Moran about why he releases music directly to Bandcamp now, after being signed to Blue Note for almost 20 years, and why he charges $20 an album0 an album.

Anything you buy on Bandcamp today is awesome.

Matmos 2003 tour only CD-R: https://matmos.bandcamp.com

Bought three things today:

New Metal by Multiple Man, a pair of Australian twins making EBM/industrial that they describe as "BURNING CHROME, CROSS CONTINENTAL HI-NRG, FIRM HANDSHAKE ELECTRONIC BODY MUSIC" (capitalization in original; that "FIRM HANDSHAKE" cracks me up). Highly recommended if you're in a Front 242/early Nitzer Ebb mood like I seem to be a lot lately.
https://dkarecords.bandcamp.com/album/new-metal

Discipline Is Reward Enough (2017 Version) by Severe Illusion, a Swedish EBM/industrial duo whose albums are name-your-price. (I paid 40 SEK, about $5, each for this one and their other full-length, No More Alive Than You Deserve.) Noisy, aggressive stuff like a shoutier, more fuzzed-out Nitzer Ebb or a slightly more caveman-ish Skinny Puppy.
https://severeillusion.bandcamp.com/album/discipline-is-reward-enough-2017-edition
https://severeillusion.bandcamp.com/album/no-more-alive-than-you-deserve

gonna get the new albums by The Bran Flakes (https://branflakes.bandcamp.com/releases) and Nmesh (https://orangemilkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/pharma) today

https://leegamble.bandcamp.com/album/lee-gamble-mnestic-pressure-hdbcd037

if you dig "Perlence" by Autechre...

https://uiqmusic.bandcamp.com/album/glasz-uiq0005

posted the wrong link, sorry. meant to post Glasz (UIQ0005) by Lanark Artefax

https://dreamcatalogue.bandcamp.com/album/hk
HKE’s classic ambient vaporwave album HK

I just did my first "sure, fuck it, why not" full-discography-on-bandcamp purchase - I was gonna buy an album for, like, 7 euros, and the label was like "you want our whole catalog? half off, 20 euros" and I figured "I bet I was gonna buy at least three more of your records anyway"

welcome to collection, weird awesome russian ambient label that put out this awesome comp

https://pantheophania.bandcamp.com/album/lunar-devotion

was gonna buy the entire Orange Milk catalogue when it was 90% off but I didn't pull the trigger and now the price doubled!!!

This is slaying me today - members of Come, Oneida, and Yo La Tengo in instrumental noise-rock trio glory.

https://charnelground12xu.bandcamp.com/album/charnel-ground

https://kozepz.bandcamp.com/album/plumdub-1-explorations
https://unfathomless.bandcamp.com/album/ten-years-under-the-earth
https://oliviablock1.bandcamp.com/album/heave-to

https://sarahhennies.bandcamp.com/album/live-fleas

Stonebride from Croatia rocks.

https://stonebride.bandcamp.com/

I like Deaf Radio and Lord 13 from Greece too.

https://deafradio.bandcamp.com/

https://lord13.bandcamp.com/

'the band whose name is a symbol' are some prime cosmonauts from Canada.

https://thebandwhosenameisasymbol.bandcamp.com/