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

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

ilkae used to be a neighbor! nice guy, great sonics.

This album by Bully called Sugaregg is decent enough pop-punk w/ a touch of twee and shoegaze and Nirvana. I like singer Alicia’s voice.

It’s in Bandcamp’s best of summer 2020 Story

https://daily.bandcamp.com/lists/the-best-albums-of-summer-2020

I'm not gonna spam this all over ILM, I'm just gonna put it here, this one time, because it fits within the purview of the thread. I've started a label - Burning Ambulance Music - and while our first full releases won't be out until early 2021, I'm launching with a compilation that features exclusive tracks from a bunch of amazing (and amazingly generous) artists:

Mats Gustafsson, Ivo Perelman and Nate Wooley, Matthew Shipp and Whit Dickey, Melvin Gibbs, Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber, Aaron Parks, Melissa Aldana, Dead Neanderthals, Dog Life (feat. Anna Högberg), William Hooker, Jason Kao Hwang, Eric Hofbauer and Garrison Fewell, Matthew Golombisky, and Nick Millevoi.

It's called Eyes Shut, Ears Open, and you can buy it here for $10 (official release date is Friday).

25% of the money will go to the Jazz Foundation of America's Musicians' Emergency Fund, which (as one might expect) helps out jazz musicians who need financial, medical, and housing assistance. The rest will go toward making records.

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2144502237_10.jpg

awesome, thanks, I needed to pick up a few new releases this Friday

Wow, good luck with the label!

unperson that's an amazing looking compilation!

This looks like a great endeavour (and some sweet endorsements, too!). All the best with it.

As shitty a year (shittiest in my 40 years) as this has been, music has been incredible. Here's a thread of my 40 or so favorite releases of the year, with Bandcamp links to each:

Oct. 2 is @Bandcamp Friday again, all $ to artists! BUY MUSIC, it's so crucial in 2020.

In this thread are Musicophilia's favorite releases of 2020 so far, and some recent mixes of amazing music by Black artists you should most definitely support! pic.twitter.com/sFQ2r6bLce

— Musicophilia (@musicophiliamix) October 1, 2020

https://abiogenesisofficial.bandcamp.com/

a little off topic, but supposedly the app can stream to chromecast now? has anyone been able to do this and if so, how? i am pretty tech savvy but there does not appear to be an option anywhere in the app. on iphone if that makes a difference

please ignore me, i am an idiot

The spotlight track from my compilation was added to the New York Times' weekly playlist!

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/02/arts/music/playlist-maren-morris-halsey-21-savage.html

I'm as astonished by that as I am by the fact that all these incredible musicians were willing to donate music in the first place. This is a very head-spinning day.

this is SO good. i am blown away. my rec for today:

https://glasstheband.bandcamp.com/album/wilting-in-mauve

insanely well-done this heat/women vibes

i recommended this on the rolling jangle thread, but you can actually buy it now:

https://vacantstarerecords.bandcamp.com/album/maybe-another-time

it's way better than i thought it would be, and i went in expecting a decent, solid release.

xp that Glass album is great, thanks. Yep, total This Heat bait, but somehow not derivative, I get like vibes of The Ex and Dog Faced Hermans as well.

https://keithfullertonwhitman.bandcamp.com/album/resonators-1

Somewhat terrifyingly I have prepared an album of the old space blerps for release on Bandcamp today. It does costs money but not much, or if you want a dl code just ask!

https://bit.ly/32kJCRP

https://kuntandthegang.bandcamp.com/album/kunts-punk-in-your-face

oops, not the album, just the song: https://kuntandthegang.bandcamp.com/track/boris-johnson-is-a-fucking-cunt

Good stuff Emil! Sorta Lindstrom-y?

Carl Stone's latest, Stolen Car, is sounding really good to me today. Plus Unseen Worlds is offering a discount on everything! (use code '46')

https://arthurrussell.bandcamp.com/album/sketches-for-world-of-echo-june-25-1984-live-at-ei

Loving this Noel Emits stuff, beautiful squelches in my ears rn!

Noel this is extremely groovy and perfect for me rn

really enjoyed your music noel.
very tangerine dream vs scanda space synths.

https://gatemm.bandcamp.com/album/electric-guitar
https://inexhaustibleeditions.bandcamp.com/album/dedekind-duos
https://erstwhilerecords.bandcamp.com/album/hole-in-my-head
https://pole-stefanbetke.bandcamp.com/album/fading
https://ylvatrax.bandcamp.com/album/the-youth
https://amplify2020.bandcamp.com/
https://conundrom.bandcamp.com/

Sounds really good, Noel!

First track is very much my bag, bubbling and spacy - will listen properly to the whole thing tomorrow when I'm not trying to round up a few more bandcamp purchases and go to bed before 1am (oops, that was 15 minutes ago).

(aagh, I've already spent more money than I told myself I should and I haven't even checked my ever-growing wishlist yet. better go to bed...)

Noel’s album = bought. Last purchase of the day.

Massive thanks everyone for ears and support. Woah!

Can you post a link to your bandcamp Noel?

it was linkified in the first post of the revive but: https://emilstone.bandcamp.com/

Noel, this is SO GOOD.

yeah, it is.
bought and listened to it several times.
nice one noel/emil.
(i always look in my archive for noel, a d forget etc etc)