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

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

new sam prekop ep!!

https://samprekop.bandcamp.com/album/in-away

Finally did a big Dark Entries splurge for what hopefully isn't actually the last Bandcamp Friday- Dax Pierson, Jasmine Infiniti, the restocked Solid Space LP, and their reissue of Severed Heads' Come Visit the Big Bigot. All fucking incredible, but you probably didn't need me to tell you that

new sam prekop ep!!

https://samprekop.bandcamp.com/album/in-away

More beep boops?

why yes it is! gloriously lovely ones, as a matter of fact.

My Bandcamp Friday purchases:

Scorn, The Only Place (new album, pre-order)
Wildflower, Better Times (pre-order) (out-ish UK jazz trio)
Distant, Aeons of Oblivion (pre-order) (death metal)
Jaimie Branch, FLY or DIE LIVE (pre-order of physical CD)
Nicole Johänntgen, Henry III (New Orleans-style jazz: sax, tuba, drums)
Spirits Rejoice African Spaces (South African jazz reissue)
Meshum, Enigmatic Existential Essence (death metal)
Innov Gnawa, Innov Gnawa and Lila and Aicha (Gnawa music - one album on Daptone, two indie albums)
Charles McPherson, Charles Mcpherson and Siku Ya Bibi (reissues)
V/A, Perihelion 2209 (electronic compilation)
George Coleman, Amsterdam After Dark (reissue)

My wallet needed a break, so just a small haul this time around:

Daniel Bachman - Axacan (Three Lobed, CD)
Wadada Leo Smith / Douglas Ewart / Mike Reed - Sun Beans of Shimmering Light (Astral Spirits, CD)
Phicus - Solid (Astral Spirits, CD)

i plugged this one already because i'm shameless and it's so fucken good—

but anyway, the jazzgalatik thing from late last year deserves your attention.

a buddy of mine, whose music i like, has a new record on there.

https://kristiannorth.bandcamp.com

recent picks-

https://conundrom.bandcamp.com/album/rowe-fuhler
https://anothertimbre.bandcamp.com/album/stain-ballads
https://meenna.bandcamp.com/album/come-down-to-earth-where-sorrow-dwelleth
https://glassreservoir.bandcamp.com/album/condensations-fusings
https://shelterpress.bandcamp.com/album/perceptual-geography
https://erstwhilerecords.bandcamp.com/album/hole-in-my-head
https://anneguthrie.bandcamp.com/album/gyropedie
https://tehn.bandcamp.com/album/gnostics

Got some Kashmiri smile and some Waveless

https://kagamismile.bandcamp.com/album/memory-of-cornea-2

https://wvlss.bandcamp.com/album/sugartree

KAGAMI

Skee Mask full length! Not to be released to streaming ever per the artist.
Lorraine James LP pre-order and this absolute classic https://el-b.bandcamp.com/album/el-brand-el-brand-dub-mix-el-brand-vip-24-hours-only

https://cuticles1.bandcamp.com/album/acquaintances-or

how big is your collection on Bandcamp?

I've apparently made 366 purchases and my collection is 363 (guess some things were taken down? idk)

979

306

Damn Calstars!

Easy to get caught up in the “buy this entire artists / labels discography for $1”

LA MONTE YOUNG IS ON BANDCAMP

http://justdreamsnyc.bandcamp.com

8013

1017 as of tonight but growing tomorrow.

really wish there was a better way to organize your collection

I've bought about 2500 items, but with about another 5500 items in my wantlist, mine'd be closer to the number in Ned's if I could afford it

I knew Ned’s number was going to shame us all

LA MONTE YOUNG IS ON BANDCAMP

http://justdreamsnyc.bandcamp.com

― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, June 17, 2021 7:02 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

truly the end times have arrived

As for something to suggest from all that I have, this just got released (well, rereleased), I'm listening to it now, and it rules

https://wearebusybodies.bandcamp.com/album/eboni-band-s-t

really wish there was a better way to organize your collection

― scanner darkly, Friday, June 18, 2021 5:31 AM

OTM!

Can heartily recommend subscribing to Kevin Drumm, you'll get enough drone to last your lifetime.

want to recommend the latest release by the narcotix, which is soooo good. they were featured on bandcamp daily last week: https://daily.bandcamp.com/album-of-the-day/the-narcotix-mommy-issues-review

https://narcotix.bandcamp.com/album/mommy-issues

https://i.imgur.com/dGS63dT.png

my label keeps 82% of bandcamp revenue, including on bandcamp day, and the remaining 18% goes towards my debt i will never pay off :-)

— Austra⁷ (@austratalks) July 20, 2021

That would depend on the label, sadly.

Seems high

I doubt Shields has the same deal.

Wouldn't this be a "signed digital rights over to a label" issue rather than a Bandcamp one per se?

Yeah that's what it reads like, or that it was built into the label deal from the start.

Yes, bandcamp would have nothing to do with how the revenue is split up

She talks more about things here:

i released hirudin almost a year ago and it's streamed on spotify around 4 million times. based on a payout of $0.0038 per stream and taking into account my deal with my label, i've earned around $2662.38, all of which goes to my label debt, meaning i've pocketed $0.

— Austra⁷ (@austratalks) July 20, 2021

So 20% is supposed to go to publishing? This shit is so confusing and everyone does it differently. I recently spent a lot of time looking into whether I should be getting any streaming revenue for a song that I produced for another artist, and in the end the answer I came up with is 'no', unless you specifically strike a deal that includes it. But since I do have half the publishing, it seems like I should be getting half of 20%, but I've never been able to make that happen.

Yeah I'm aware it's not Bandcamp's fault, just interested in what a typical digital sales revenue split looks like for artists. Name and shame maybe.

Self-plug: Got two new releases out today on my label.

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2784114773_10.jpg

Reels is a duo album by pianist Matthew Shipp and drummer Whit Dickey. They've been playing together off and on for over 30 years, in the David S. Ware Quartet, Shipp's own trio, and with saxophonist Ivo Perelman, but this is only their second duo session. It's beautiful. Get it.

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a3479908077_16.jpg

Echolocation is a collaboration between cornet player Graham Haynes and electronic musician Submerged. If you like early '00s Techno Animal or stuff on the Electric Ladyland and Macro Dub Infection compilations, or music on the WordSound label, you'll like this. Very heavy beats, piercing horn, warped sounds to dive into and swim around in. Get it.

Don't be shy--I know you're all buying plenty of music to support artists, but still--let me buy you one more album/ep!

Since @Bandcamp started Bandcamp Fridays in 2020, Musicophilia and friends have bought folks over 200 digital LPs and EPs by Black musicians in these days where shows are not safe, and Spotify is paying literal pennies.

Please don't be shy--join in!https://t.co/DyygbpiR5G

— Musicophilia (@musicophiliamix) August 5, 2021

Nice! Love when Ship gets down to those looooow notes.

I self-released an EP on Bandcamp last week, guess I'll throw that here:
https://chants.bandcamp.com/album/quintuple-helix-ep

https://hkedream.bandcamp.com/album/dragon-soul

https://cyberdream.bandcamp.com/album/a-night-on-the-town

https://telepathtelepath.bandcamp.com/album/--12

The committee finally reached an accommodation on the title and artwork for the new emil stone release.

https://emilstone.bandcamp.com/album/e-p-2
Single on youtube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDSj4jEBg50

not just for Mr Herandi:
https://holidayghosts.bandcamp.com/album/north-street-air