Free/"Name Your Price" Bandcamp Album Compendium

droom = dream in Dutch, makes total sense to me

I had too much to droom last night

the moth music was hella creepy. scott walker should get with whoever did it.

droom a little droom for me

Yeah, I can't listen to the moth music, freaks me out too much.

the moth music was hella creepy. scott walker should get with whoever did it.

― Aesop Rizzle (a hoy hoy), maandag 23 januari 2012 20:38 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

awesome recommendation tbh, will check it out

currently enjoying moth music
fyi

wait, which one is the moth music?

damn i didnt know le bateau ivre was scott walker

http://bakedgoods.bandcamp.com/

Oh, my ship is coming in, flopson, baby baby

thought my user name gave it away

http://uncertain.bandcamp.com/album/aether-musick-for-moths

Yay! Unleash the smoke machine! ;)

i didn't find the sample song scary at all, but maybe the rest is terrifying. i'll find out soon.

Sounds more like soothing ambient than scary to me. I, being Scott Walker, will not be associated with such half-witted muzak. They could have at least punched some pig meat, you know, to show they mean it.

That kind of overpowering, claustrophobic drone always gets to me for some reason.

Also the little fluttering wings. Do not want.

It seems to lean a lot on effects, like the wind blowing over an icy polar landscape. But I do like it, yes.

Also the little fluttering wings. Do not want.

― Gamera died for our sins (J3ff T.), Tuesday, January 24, 2012 12:36 AM (43 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Oh no, wrong attitude, want Jeff, want!

Album gets better along the way, but it still sounds fairly sad-ambient-cliché to be honest

I don't know man, are you listening to ambient for innovation and excitement? Because I think you might have the wrong genre for that.

Anyway, I've been to Indio, if I lived there I would probably be making music that sounded like that.

would you find this more appealing if it were called music for butterflies? they're just moths with prettier clothes.

I don't know man, are you listening to ambient for innovation and excitement? Because I think you might have the wrong genre for that.

― Gamera died for our sins (J3ff T.), Tuesday, January 24, 2012 12:46 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I'm an ambient man, have been so for 10+ years. The opposite of "innovation and excitement" - which is what I guess you are getting at in your definition of ambient - does not make for (good) ambient, per sé. At least not in my book. Ambient can be unsettling, unnerving as anything else. Ambient itself shines all around the spectrum of what most people call "ambient". From great snoozer-ambient to unsettling, scary ambient.

Butterflies don't eat your clothes. At least I don't think they do. Although that would explain a lot…

I think moths wear their outfits with pride, and rightfully so

Sorry man, cheap joke. I've just recently started getting into ambient, and I dig it a lot, but I guess I have trouble recognizing when ambient is cliché. I'm still at the stage with that genre where my critical insight basically comes down to "I like this" or "I don't like this."

"this is scary"

loving the teenage strangler stuff

oh i should have mentioned this...my friend's band Dallas Orbiter

http://www.dallasorbiter.com/

did a thing in 2011, where they released a free digital "single" each month...a-side was new original, b-side was a cover

i think they have a unique sounds...i dunno, kinda of an odd yet poppy space rock...like somewhere between a less-chopsy walt mink and can or something?

the originals are all great and the cover selections are cool and diverse, include songs by Blue Oyster Cult, Al Stewart, Brian Eno, an unreleased song by a former member of Punchdrunk (Punchdrunk's rhythm section became the original Hold Steady rhythm section), Glen Campbell, Baader Meinhoff, Love & Rockets, John Cooper Clarke, Bombay Sweets, The Zombies

& Rita Coolidge

a couple of recent melbourne things

heavily reverbed screamy 60s garage thing

http://rayonmoon.bandcamp.com/

entertaining lofi garage thing, drummer is a friend of mine

http://bidetmate.bandcamp.com/

http://huggorm.bandcamp.com/
Swedish garage rock!

http://threedimensionaltanx.bandcamp.com/
Spacey psychedelicy stonery jams!

http://jessevalentinemusic.bandcamp.com/album/free-mega-album-30-tracks
Beepy dance music!

http://dreamlandrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/various-artists-around

substantial compilation of experimental/drone/acoustic/electronic stuff, mostly but not entirely australian, lots of really good things

hey look name-your-price stuff from my favorites!

http://legendarypinkdots.bandcamp.com/

http://edwardka-spel.bandcamp.com/

http://recordsonribs.com/artists/strapthebutton/
British JAMS collective (but like psychedelic and good, not like Phish)!

Think when I downloaded the free Cosmic Dead record last year it gave me Three Dimensional Tanx as a recommendation (or maybe it was vice versa). That was a very good day.

the new elephant micah album is name your price for the digi version

http://productofpalmyra.elephantmicah.com/releases

Weird. Pre-ordered the vinyl of the Elephant Micah before Xmas, & at the time, rather than getting the whole thing to download, they only gave you one track (& that was the one that was already free on the site). Thought they were just trying to stop people spreading it around before the release date, but now on release it turns out it's Name Your Price thing anyway. I must be missing something about this strategy.

last year I wrote 242 songs as part of a song-a-day project. going on holiday and moving house put a stop to getting 365 but anyway... these are my favourite ones. http://kidsteel.bandcamp.com/album/the-year-of-magical-thinking

huggorm and three dimensional tanx -- yes!

also everyone should dl this excellent peter gordon song seandalai (i think?!) played in outloud the other day (yesterday? i have no idea what day) it! is! the best!!! it builds and builds and then AGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH 8 min of totally awesome
http://soundcloud.com/pglolo/machomusic-76

it was two days ago
whatever day it was, (and hell, whatever day it is) that song totally rules and is available for free/legal dl

that PG song is SO DAMN GOOD.

Pretty much everything that fastnbulbous has been linking to has been gold.

http://vitriolrecords.bandcamp.com/album/collected-lp
Next-level intelligent French hardcore!

http://verma.bandcamp.com/
Noisy Krautrock!

http://www.nuclear-death-terror.com/music.html
See band name!

(The first band is called Birds in Row, see my review of their record in the latest issue of Decibel)

australian indiepop. crunchy in a darling buds sort of way

http://scalemodels.bandcamp.com/

COMPILATION FOR A CAT

Noise/drone/out/showtunes/everything. Really for a cat! So pay something.

(sorry can't post the link right now but google it)

Also: DADA TRASH COLLAGE, who kinda sound like the name

Also?

ELIZABETH VELDON

Trust.