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

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.

oh here we GO

lol, I'm still spending a fair bit today! I just wish it wasn't a once a month thing where we can make sure artists get a bigger cut, is all! I'd rather do it every week!

attention Legendary Pink Dots fans:

https://legendarypinkdots1.bandcamp.com/album/four-days-the-30th-anniversary-remastered-expanded

I totally agree, I wish they would just halve or reduce their revenue share overall during the pandemic. What it's done to the release cycle, and to artists feeling like they're on a monthly schedule, is really a bummer.

this bandcamp friday marks 2 months now that i haven't listened to the things i bought in february.

lol :(

My cart so far:

Slant (Korean hardcore band), Vain Attempt EP and 1 LP
ASC, An Increase in Entropy EP (throwback drum 'n' bass)
D-Town Brass, Ur and Demiurge
Earthless, Live in the Mojave Desert Vol. 1 (it's a multi-artist series, other volumes are by other bands, five in all)
Milford Graves/Jason Moran, Live at Big Ears

shameless plug — here's a new project I'm involved with featuring members of dalek, goes cube, etc. kind of a moody electronic shoegaze thing: https://commoncruelty.bandcamp.com/

I was at one of those Big Ears performances.

Loscil and Underground Lovers buys for sure, then perusing Mark Eitzel / AMC live stuff, then The Apartments, Braids, and Celer pages to see if anything else jumps out.

Can't recommend The Apartments' _In and Out of the Light_ highly enough. Favorite 2020 release. Melancholy piano-led beauty.

I was at that Graves/Moran too, it was great.

I'm waiting for Finders Keepers to update their page with deadstock and whatnot; it's 20 minutes late and I am grown antsy

Boris continuing to do the business with the archival stuff, including among other things today just a whole album from 2009 that had never surfaced before. With Kurihara on it.

https://boris.bandcamp.com/album/new-album-2009

bought the new flock of dimes + the really from album (which i haven't heard but just from people describing it it sounds exactly like my shit, can't lose)

Here are my picks for today:

Osheyack & Nahash - Club Apathy
https://svbkvlt.bandcamp.com/album/club-apathy
(insane

Facta - Blush
https://wisdomteethuk.bandcamp.com/album/blush
Beautiful UK electronic music

DJ Swisha, Niyr & Kanyon - What's Stopping You From Doing This?
https://djswisha.bandcamp.com/album/whats-stopping-you-from-doing-this
(breaks galore)

DJ Delish - TOOLSHED
https://djdelish.bandcamp.com/album/toolshed
(Ballroom club tools)

Nabalayo x NKC
https://eventhestrong.bandcamp.com/album/mwizi
Collab between a Kenyan vocalist/producer and a UK (?) producer

Patrick Belega - Blutt
https://patrickbelega.bandcamp.com/album/blutt
Still need to check out this ambient cello + electronics record on PAN

DJ Hank x DJ Orange Julius - OJ and Henny
https://djorangejulius.bandcamp.com/album/oj-and-henny
In-the-pocket 160 bpm club tracks

And for my own shameless plug, this band Lovely Socialite has been doing a project where they pick a scale + bpm and all record parts without hearing each other. Then each member produces a track using the stems. They invited me to contribute to a track to this one, so it's somewhere in-between a remix and an original, it was fun:
https://lovelysocialitemusic.bandcamp.com/album/quarantine-loops-vol-2

That DJ Delish is very much in my cart.

Seems downloading an album in the app is now an option on iOS

Yup, update released over the past couple of days. Excellent development!

Indeed

WHAAAAAT

This is awesome and long overdue

On Android too now - upodate overnight.

New single out on my label today: Graham Haynes vs Submerged - Flashtower/Istanbul Gran Prix. Cornet and electronics. Full album coming in July.

And it’s Bandcamp Friday too