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

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.

Aw shit that IS today huh.

Gonna browse now

I posted my Bandcamp roundup over here:
Rolling Re-Re-Reconstructed Club Music 2021

Oneida just posted their sprawling epic "Brah Tapes" in digital form. Revisiting now.

following

also i know i've plugged it here before, but if you want some seriously great introspective streetwise chicago hiphop, i can't recommend waldorf and statler enough. they have all their stuff set to free, but you can throw them a fiver if you feel so compelled.

semi-related, you can get the entire windimoto music catalogue (of which the dvs solo album is part of) digitally for less than $20. all chicago peeps, with an assist from detroit.

new darren hayman instrumentals thing - https://darrenhayman.bandcamp.com/album/music-to-watch-news-by

new Second Language comp (mainly for the isan track) - https://secondlanguagemusic.bandcamp.com/album/drifts-flurries-a-second-language-collectanea

not listened yet so not guaranteed awesome.

Superb solo album of ambient soundscape guitar stuff by Nick McCabe.
https://nickmccabe1.bandcamp.com/album/we-are-are-we

You could combine it with this album by the young up and coming guitarist that you may know

https://sund4rsubramanian.bandcamp.com/album/electric-currents

both are name your price

lol even the bandcamp link got googleproofed

Doing this thing again--don't be shy!

Retweet this tweet, and include a link to an album you love by a Black artist on @Bandcamp...

Then on Bandcamp Friday, we'll buy you a digital album/EP of your choice by any independent Black musician(s)!

(Below are links to many amazing records if you need help choosing) https://t.co/UxKocovYjR pic.twitter.com/ITAGwJQmi4

— Musicophilia (@musicophiliamix) February 2, 2021

Thanks for the Nick McCabe tip, great!

What's the etiquette for buying stuff the day after BC Friday? Should I hold off for a day so it doesn't look like I lunched it?

Thanks for the Nick McCabe tip, great!

Def a fan of the McCabe

What's the etiquette for buying stuff the day after BC Friday? Should I hold off for a day so it doesn't look like I lunched it?

― Noel Emits

Ha, I often have this problem as my money-having time is pretty sporadic. As an artist, I honestly don't mind if people don't buy on the bandcamp days. And as a bandcamp stan, I kind of feel fine about giving them their cut too, if you only bought on fee-free days then they'd go bust.

As to upthread, I was cheeky and went ahead and played your track before you'd replied, ha. I'll send a link to the show through to your ilxmail if you like?

The 3 Chairs compilation was my grab. So much goodness, hours of groove.
https://3chairsdetroit.bandcamp.com/album/3-chairs-collection-1997-2013

was going to grab the 3 chairs comp but looks like it's gone now?
hopefully it'll be available again at some point.

Check this out I think it’s awesome https://musicforkeyboards.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-keyboards-vol-vi

Now banned in China?

hey scanner darkly it looks like it’s on rick wilhite’s page now: https://rickwilhite.bandcamp.com/album/3-chairs-collection-1997-2013

awesome, thank you!

i'm curious now what happens when an album you purchased is removed from bandcamp - i guess it just disappears?
i mostly use the sonos app to listen but always make sure to download files as well

Yeah, if you haven't downloaded the files then I think you're out of luck.

shit, I didn't know that was a thing that happened!

on Amazon Music, if you buy a digital album and the album then gets removed from their library, you still remain access to the streaming digital media, and can still download it (you just can't buy or access the album if you never had previously).

if Bandcamp shit outright disappears, I have a lot of downloading to do to my Google Drive. not sure how they can get away with that since they advertise you getting free digital access to the music along with your mp3s/FLACs, which implies some level of permanency.

Bandcamp Friday! I plugged ilkae on here previously but he has a new album Questionable Casino out for $5 and the complete discography is now $12.20.

If any ilxors are into woozy electronic/wistful idm/chiptunes gone haywire & would like to get in touch then I'll buy them a copy of the full discog, or just the album if you prefer: ilxmail me yr email address today/this weekend.

If you do it in the next 12 hours (by approx 1am UK time tonight) I can buy it while it's still Bandcamp Friday for an extra glow of satisfaction.

(Probably unnecessary disclaimer: offer good for max 3 requests, roughly first come first served but entirely at my discretion; I reserve the right not to do this if the price goes up, if something very expensive happens to me in the next 12 hours, or if I just don't feel like it any more - although it is fully my intention to feel like it and you can call me rude names on ilx for the next week if I don't)

Considering the intent behind Bandcamp Friday and how it ensures more money in the pockets of artists it seems churlish to complain about anything, but... I'm not the biggest fan of how it has already re-aligned the release calendar to be a metric shit-ton of releases once a month, rather than being more spread out.

Again, I'm all for it, but it's easier for me to buy more music when it's more spread out and it's not as easy to give my wallet one huge hit once a month.