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

Bought some stuff from Little Axe Records. Nicely transporting me elsewhere during isolation.

I didn't give away all 20 albums on 3/20--so I'm going to keep this going! Check out the artists I tweeted below, share them, and DM me and the album is yours FREE.

Thanks @natepatrin @noisyspoon @GeekWayne @jeremy_okai @missekawasaki for joining in so far! https://t.co/SabuvKIPH8

— Musicophilia (@musicophiliamix) March 21, 2020

here's a question: who's the biggest artist legitimately on Bandcamp? like, giant pop stars aren't on there (that I know of) ... J Balvin put a cassette up there a while back but he doesn't have an artist page or whatever.

Wilco seems to be legitimately on Bandcamp. in lieu of anything better, maybe that's a reasonable starting point - who's bigger than Wilco and also on Bandcamp? some DJs I've never heard of, maybe?

define "big" however you like, of course.

Maybe too similar to J Balvin, but...

https://badbunnypr.bandcamp.com/

Not as big as Wilco but Car Seat Headrest was built up from Bandcamp and everything including early and Matador eras are up

Peter Gabriel's on there.

I started searching for names I knew and there is an “artist” selling “8D audio” versions of albums which sound like he/she played them in a large empty room and recorded it. https://lahservant.bandcamp.com/

I don't know about bigger than Wilco, but there are indie artists who focus on Bandcamp and sell many hundreds of records (milo/R.A.P. Ferreira comes to mind), and legacy indie artists (Low is on there too). Although I wouldn't be surprised if some of the best selling records are, like, video game soundtracks / metal bands / some corny electronic music I've never heard of.

this is the one I've been digging the past week: https://loveallday.bandcamp.com/album/spacetones (the whole label is pretty happening)

oh totally ... there's some video game music maker from Seattle that outsells everything else from that city on Bandcamp.

big on Bandcamp is one thing - and it's an interesting thing, for sure! i'm talking more like "big in real life but also on Bandcamp"

Peter Gabriel is an interesting one. i'm thinking more like that - lots of success in real life and somewhere along the line decided to post all or most of their albums to BC.

(also, i feel terrible, but when I mentioned J Balvin putting a cassette up a while back ... i was mixed up. that was actually Bad Bunny. my bad. if he maintains that presence and posts future albums there, he'd count.)

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I'd think not many "legacy" guys like Gabriel would own the digital rights to their big albums.

And of course once you get to a certain level sales-wise Bancamp's commision probably starts to look high compared to operating a web store.

Bandcamp: "on Friday, May 1st, we’re going to waive our revenue share again. Stay tuned for more information next week."
Neat! Better start working on my wishlist.

Nurse With Wound just posted a bunch of digital reissues as well

waving fees again tomorrow, recs appreciated

I'm planning on buying this tomorrow:

All four volumes of the Nigeria 70 compilation series for 34 Euros.

Also looking at the new album by Scando free jazz group Anna Högberg Attack, Strychnia's Into the Catacombs (cover art below) and a live recording from Italy of the group Broken Shadows (alto saxophonist Tim Berne, tenor saxophonist Chris Speed, and bassist Reid Anderson and drummer Dave King from The Bad Plus, performing tunes by Ornette Coleman, Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden, and Julius Hemphill).

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1810778442_10.jpg

some of my recent bandcamp digs over here: https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2020/04/30/bandcamping-quarantine-edition-ii/

via Ned:

https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/artists-and-labels-offering-donations-special-merch-and-more-this-friday

I recommend any of these: https://bandcamp.com/onate

Specific descriptions available upon request.

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— Bstep (@bstepbeatz) May 1, 2020

Can't go wrong with any of the Pressure Sounds comps https://pressuresounds.bandcamp.com

New emeralds remasters ✨
https://emeraldsohio.bandcamp.com/

o.nate, do you use bandcamp to buy physical media or digital albums? or a mix?

So far from today's Bandcamp listening, this dance music comp is a stand-out:
https://towheadrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/new-york-dance-music-ii

few more recs

https://kushjones.bandcamp.com/album/relief-2
https://dj-surgeon.bandcamp.com/album/thx-1138-9
https://dj-surgeon.bandcamp.com/album/rare-unreleased-1999-2008
https://mgeddesgengras1.bandcamp.com/album/time-makes-nothing-happen

https://djmastercard.bandcamp.com/album/timeend

https://themartialarts.bandcamp.com/

And some more on the electronic end:
https://zulimusic.bandcamp.com/album/trigger-finger-remixes
https://clemencyuk.bandcamp.com/album/references
https://awesomeagency.bandcamp.com/

o.nate, do you use bandcamp to buy physical media or digital albums? or a mix?

I've only ever bought digital there.

some of you will know that i'll occasionally rep for the music of Alex Ward - most recently seen playing guitar with the Flying Lutenbachers.

New collaboration with Brooklyn improv saxophonist Sam Weinberg just out [urlthis week, but I've only just got round to listening to Noonward, his collaboration with 'rhythmic storyteller' Sean Noonan. Delaying getting into this was a big mistake, as it's really *excellent*. Surprisingly rich, for what I thought in a perfectly good way might be somewhat limited to the more abstruse ends of free improv (delay was probably bcos i didn't feel i was in the right *intellectual* state - a reservation that turns out was entirely unnecessary - cos at times it really moves. the mixture of drums, playful clarinet, *hard* guitar, and general tonal playfulness has been executed with some magic imo.

For the more austere and intellectually minded in these *internal* times, the composition/improv sextet Projected, Entities, Removal and quintet Glass Shelves and Floor are well worth your time imo. I particular favour the first of those. Hope the sleevenotes are available on downloads, as they make a good read on the musical theory behind both.

pleased to manage both a stray url tag *and* more traditional unclosed brackets in that post there.

Getting buried under Bandcamp emails today, but the new release from Habibi Funk, Sharhabil Ahmed: The King of Sudanese Jazz, sounds pretty great:

https://habibifunkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/habibi-funk-013-the-king-of-sudanese-jazz

Things I wound up buying today: the Anna Högberg Attack, Strychnia, and Broken Shadows titles mentioned above, and new versions of three titles by French-Canadian tech-death band Neuraxis (Trilateral Progression, Asylon and the compilation Truth/Imagery Passage) that I previously had in lower bit rates.

I bought a Putrescine tee and an alb by Ripped to Shreds

Went ahead an bought Charlotte Adigery's 3 releases since I've gotten so much youtube play out of high lights and patenipat. That and like 9 other things in this thread.

new live 75 Dollar Bill album is killer, listening now

https://slumoflegs.bandcamp.com/album/slum-of-legs

Just in case any ilx0rs haven't bought our album yet, go on you know you want to.

Kode9 posted some tasty treats https://kode9.bandcamp.com

Bernard Snowy, you are too kind!

Got me some Low, Big Thief, Bill Callahan, William Basinski, Girlpool, and Jonathan Richman.

Girlpool released demos of their last album that were recorded before Avery transitioned. Excited to hear them in his old voice.

o.nate -- right back atcha! I'm impressed you scrolled far enough in my wishlist to find the OP, I've been adding stuff to it all day like a crazy hoarder :)

got three Lich King albs for a name your own price. but I tell ya, the Ripped to Shreds is killer.

wow, thanks for mentioning the Girlpool demos ... gonna grab those for sure.

btw the new X album is totally great!

https://xtheband.bandcamp.com/album/alphabetland

the new WHAT

had no idea

just picked up an album by Feminazgul

I just bumped the X thread, it's really really good! Like they never left, hard short punky songs, great sound.

Feminazgul is not my thing but kudos for the name

Good job, everyone (really!):

Update on last Friday's campaign: Fans paid artists $7.1 million in just 24 hours ($2.8m more than March 20th). Thank you for supporting artists impacted by Covid-19, and mark your calendars for the next #BandcampFriday on June 5th! https://t.co/hPhgm7WBR4

— bandcamp (@Bandcamp) May 4, 2020