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

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)

https://robertturman.bandcamp.com/album/chapter-eleven-1976-1987

never heard of the guy before but he was originally the other member of NON apparently

Debuting in 1988 as a self-released 8xCassette boxset. Chapter Eleven collects the solo recordings (1976 - 1987) from one of the earliest members of the US Industrial Noise scene, coalescing a wide swath of influences and culling experimental techniques into inventive new terrain. Carefully remastered from the original tapes, this deluxe reissue is a long-awaited rescue from obscurity.

I don't know if it's necessarily "awesome," but I do think it has a melancholic beauty to it--I put an album of improvised multi-layered acoustic music (and experimental electronic reconstructions of same) that I did when I was 20 up on Bandcamp. The more important thing is any money folks pay for it is being doubled and donated to bail funds, mutual aid funds, and social justice and civil rights funds:

Thank you, everyone who has picked up my album at Bandcamp--just donated $450 from $225 in album purchases! I'll continue to donate whatever folks pay, and double it--pass it on!https://t.co/xY4zZ2L7fH

— Musicophilia (@musicophiliamix) November 9, 2020

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Robert Turman's Flux got a lot of attention when it was reissued in the 2010ish period. I know it came out on Spectrum Spools eventually but I remember a separate reissue in the years beforehand doing the rounds on Volcanic Tongue etc

The below is from an artist on Sote's label promoting Iranian composers, on which she does some kind of incantation over genuinely innovative sounding electronics. Hard to classify! Instantly wishlisted.
https://zabtesote.bandcamp.com/album/zangaar

One last Bandcamp Friday for this cursed year--so doing the "buy people music on Bandcamp Friday" thing one last time. Had a few ILM participants during earlier Bandcamp Fridays this year--don't be shy!

On Friday, Dec. 4th, 100% of sales at @Bandcamp go to artists/labels!

Retweet w/ a link to a Black artist's music you love on Bandcamp, and we'll buy you an album of your choice by any independent Black artist/group.

Below is a thread of Bandcamp links to the best music of 2020 https://t.co/UxKocovYjR pic.twitter.com/eNRksnl2cl

— Musicophilia (@musicophiliamix) December 2, 2020

For real folks--free music, no strings attached. Just trying to put money in artists' pockwts.

Don't be shy!

this thing is incredible

https://optimomusic.bandcamp.com/album/ghana-glasgow-friendship

Wow, yeah, it is! Thanks for the reco.

yr welcome! still wrapping my head around it

https://dusttodigital.bandcamp.com/album/excavated-shellac-an-alternate-history-of-the-worlds-music

update on Bandcamp Fridays for 2021

https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/bandcamp-fridays-2021

Hey Noel, not sure if your webmail works so I'm just gonna post here - is it cool if I play 'Presence' on my radio show?

is it normal for a band / label not to automatically combine shipping? i'm trying to order three tapes from a label and bandcamp is trying to charge me $12 for shipping. i hate this!

Oh, emil.y I didn't see your post! Well, of course. Oops. xp

Not sure if you got a dl but I'll send a link.

And I think that's standard with shipping on Bandcamp, budo. I don't think the setup is sophisticated enough to automatically combine shipping although I haven't looked at it recently.

idk about that, I'm pretty sure I've lowered per-unit shipping by buying a few things from one label

I did order something from a Swiss record store a while back (via Amazon) and they deliberately sent both items separately, so there might some kind of customs reason?

this is an american label and i'm in USA so not a customs thing –– luckily there was a way to email the label and so we just dealt with it via paypal. i think this might have something to do with what they call a "fan account" vs. an account you use to host your own music (or no music at all, in my case). also my own incompetence is probably at play if i'm being fair. like bandcamp will regularly stop me from streaming records that i've alreay paid for, ON bandcamp. because according to them i don't "own them" ... whatever!

what cha'll got for bandcamp friday?

so far, i'm checking for the jazzgalaktik single that came out in december. nujazz, midtempo house vibes.

am open to recs.