here's a question: who's the biggest artist legitimately on Bandcamp? like, giant pop stars aren't on there (that I know of) ... J Balvin put a cassette up there a while back but he doesn't have an artist page or whatever.
Wilco seems to be legitimately on Bandcamp. in lieu of anything better, maybe that's a reasonable starting point - who's bigger than Wilco and also on Bandcamp? some DJs I've never heard of, maybe?
define "big" however you like, of course.
― alpine static, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 09:40 (four years ago) link
Maybe too similar to J Balvin, but...
https://badbunnypr.bandcamp.com/
― fauci wally (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 09:47 (four years ago) link
Not as big as Wilco but Car Seat Headrest was built up from Bandcamp and everything including early and Matador eras are up
― PaulTMA, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 11:29 (four years ago) link
Peter Gabriel's on there.
― mirostones, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 12:38 (four years ago) link
I started searching for names I knew and there is an “artist” selling “8D audio” versions of albums which sound like he/she played them in a large empty room and recorded it. https://lahservant.bandcamp.com/
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 13:10 (four years ago) link
I don't know about bigger than Wilco, but there are indie artists who focus on Bandcamp and sell many hundreds of records (milo/R.A.P. Ferreira comes to mind), and legacy indie artists (Low is on there too). Although I wouldn't be surprised if some of the best selling records are, like, video game soundtracks / metal bands / some corny electronic music I've never heard of.
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 14:06 (four years ago) link
this is the one I've been digging the past week: https://loveallday.bandcamp.com/album/spacetones (the whole label is pretty happening)
― tylerw, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 14:33 (four years ago) link
oh totally ... there's some video game music maker from Seattle that outsells everything else from that city on Bandcamp.
big on Bandcamp is one thing - and it's an interesting thing, for sure! i'm talking more like "big in real life but also on Bandcamp"
Peter Gabriel is an interesting one. i'm thinking more like that - lots of success in real life and somewhere along the line decided to post all or most of their albums to BC.
(also, i feel terrible, but when I mentioned J Balvin putting a cassette up a while back ... i was mixed up. that was actually Bad Bunny. my bad. if he maintains that presence and posts future albums there, he'd count.)
― alpine static, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 14:40 (four years ago) link
(xpost)
I'd think not many "legacy" guys like Gabriel would own the digital rights to their big albums.
― I've got my bidet and my pills (Noel Emits), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 14:58 (four years ago) link
And of course once you get to a certain level sales-wise Bancamp's commision probably starts to look high compared to operating a web store.
― I've got my bidet and my pills (Noel Emits), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 15:02 (four years ago) link
Bandcamp: "on Friday, May 1st, we’re going to waive our revenue share again. Stay tuned for more information next week."Neat! Better start working on my wishlist.
― fragglerock, Tuesday, 21 April 2020 00:24 (four years ago) link
Nurse With Wound just posted a bunch of digital reissues as well
― zoomer death circus (sleeve), Tuesday, 21 April 2020 02:04 (four years ago) link
waving fees again tomorrow, recs appreciated
― devvvine, Thursday, 30 April 2020 10:48 (four years ago) link
I'm planning on buying this tomorrow:
All four volumes of the Nigeria 70 compilation series for 34 Euros.
Also looking at the new album by Scando free jazz group Anna Högberg Attack, Strychnia's Into the Catacombs (cover art below) and a live recording from Italy of the group Broken Shadows (alto saxophonist Tim Berne, tenor saxophonist Chris Speed, and bassist Reid Anderson and drummer Dave King from The Bad Plus, performing tunes by Ornette Coleman, Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden, and Julius Hemphill).
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1810778442_10.jpg
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 30 April 2020 12:35 (four years ago) link
some of my recent bandcamp digs over here: https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2020/04/30/bandcamping-quarantine-edition-ii/
― tylerw, Thursday, 30 April 2020 14:32 (four years ago) link
via Ned:
https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/artists-and-labels-offering-donations-special-merch-and-more-this-friday
― epicenter of the fieri universe (sleeve), Thursday, 30 April 2020 15:47 (four years ago) link
I recommend any of these: https://bandcamp.com/onate
Specific descriptions available upon request.
― o. nate, Thursday, 30 April 2020 20:42 (four years ago) link
https://t.co/hHbaxTdavO pic.twitter.com/k7RtDRZ96Y— Bstep (@bstepbeatz) May 1, 2020
― Bstep, Friday, 1 May 2020 04:11 (four years ago) link
Can't go wrong with any of the Pressure Sounds comps https://pressuresounds.bandcamp.com
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 1 May 2020 04:25 (four years ago) link
New emeralds remasters ✨https://emeraldsohio.bandcamp.com/
― Bstep, Friday, 1 May 2020 13:37 (four years ago) link
o.nate, do you use bandcamp to buy physical media or digital albums? or a mix?
― handsome boy modelling software (bernard snowy), Friday, 1 May 2020 13:50 (four years ago) link
So far from today's Bandcamp listening, this dance music comp is a stand-out:https://towheadrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/new-york-dance-music-ii
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 1 May 2020 14:16 (four years ago) link
few more recs
https://kushjones.bandcamp.com/album/relief-2https://dj-surgeon.bandcamp.com/album/thx-1138-9https://dj-surgeon.bandcamp.com/album/rare-unreleased-1999-2008https://mgeddesgengras1.bandcamp.com/album/time-makes-nothing-happen
― Bstep, Friday, 1 May 2020 14:27 (four years ago) link
https://djmastercard.bandcamp.com/album/timeend
― Bstep, Friday, 1 May 2020 14:34 (four years ago) link
https://themartialarts.bandcamp.com/
― PaulTMA, Friday, 1 May 2020 14:47 (four years ago) link
And some more on the electronic end:https://zulimusic.bandcamp.com/album/trigger-finger-remixeshttps://clemencyuk.bandcamp.com/album/referenceshttps://awesomeagency.bandcamp.com/
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 1 May 2020 14:49 (four years ago) link
I've only ever bought digital there.
― o. nate, Friday, 1 May 2020 16:35 (four years ago) link
some of you will know that i'll occasionally rep for the music of Alex Ward - most recently seen playing guitar with the Flying Lutenbachers.
New collaboration with Brooklyn improv saxophonist Sam Weinberg just out [urlthis week, but I've only just got round to listening to Noonward, his collaboration with 'rhythmic storyteller' Sean Noonan. Delaying getting into this was a big mistake, as it's really *excellent*. Surprisingly rich, for what I thought in a perfectly good way might be somewhat limited to the more abstruse ends of free improv (delay was probably bcos i didn't feel i was in the right *intellectual* state - a reservation that turns out was entirely unnecessary - cos at times it really moves. the mixture of drums, playful clarinet, *hard* guitar, and general tonal playfulness has been executed with some magic imo.
For the more austere and intellectually minded in these *internal* times, the composition/improv sextet Projected, Entities, Removal and quintet Glass Shelves and Floor are well worth your time imo. I particular favour the first of those. Hope the sleevenotes are available on downloads, as they make a good read on the musical theory behind both.
― Fizzles, Friday, 1 May 2020 16:50 (four years ago) link
pleased to manage both a stray url tag *and* more traditional unclosed brackets in that post there.
― Fizzles, Friday, 1 May 2020 16:51 (four years ago) link
Getting buried under Bandcamp emails today, but the new release from Habibi Funk, Sharhabil Ahmed: The King of Sudanese Jazz, sounds pretty great:
https://habibifunkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/habibi-funk-013-the-king-of-sudanese-jazz
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Friday, 1 May 2020 18:04 (four years ago) link
Things I wound up buying today: the Anna Högberg Attack, Strychnia, and Broken Shadows titles mentioned above, and new versions of three titles by French-Canadian tech-death band Neuraxis (Trilateral Progression, Asylon and the compilation Truth/Imagery Passage) that I previously had in lower bit rates.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 1 May 2020 18:32 (four years ago) link
I bought a Putrescine tee and an alb by Ripped to Shreds
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Friday, 1 May 2020 18:35 (four years ago) link
Went ahead an bought Charlotte Adigery's 3 releases since I've gotten so much youtube play out of high lights and patenipat. That and like 9 other things in this thread.
― Fetchboy, Friday, 1 May 2020 18:46 (four years ago) link
new live 75 Dollar Bill album is killer, listening now
― epicenter of the fieri universe (sleeve), Friday, 1 May 2020 19:08 (four years ago) link
https://slumoflegs.bandcamp.com/album/slum-of-legs
Just in case any ilx0rs haven't bought our album yet, go on you know you want to.
― emil.y, Friday, 1 May 2020 19:16 (four years ago) link
Kode9 posted some tasty treats https://kode9.bandcamp.com
― Bstep, Friday, 1 May 2020 19:19 (four years ago) link
Bernard Snowy, you are too kind!
― o. nate, Friday, 1 May 2020 21:07 (four years ago) link
Got me some Low, Big Thief, Bill Callahan, William Basinski, Girlpool, and Jonathan Richman.
Girlpool released demos of their last album that were recorded before Avery transitioned. Excited to hear them in his old voice.
― Cow_Art, Friday, 1 May 2020 21:34 (four years ago) link
o.nate -- right back atcha! I'm impressed you scrolled far enough in my wishlist to find the OP, I've been adding stuff to it all day like a crazy hoarder :)
― handsome boy modelling software (bernard snowy), Friday, 1 May 2020 22:05 (four years ago) link
got three Lich King albs for a name your own price. but I tell ya, the Ripped to Shreds is killer.
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Friday, 1 May 2020 22:05 (four years ago) link
wow, thanks for mentioning the Girlpool demos ... gonna grab those for sure.
― alpine static, Friday, 1 May 2020 23:31 (four years ago) link
btw the new X album is totally great!
https://xtheband.bandcamp.com/album/alphabetland
― epicenter of the fieri universe (sleeve), Friday, 1 May 2020 23:32 (four years ago) link
the new WHAT
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Friday, 1 May 2020 23:39 (four years ago) link
had no idea
just picked up an album by Feminazgul
I just bumped the X thread, it's really really good! Like they never left, hard short punky songs, great sound.
― epicenter of the fieri universe (sleeve), Friday, 1 May 2020 23:44 (four years ago) link
Feminazgul is not my thing but kudos for the name
― epicenter of the fieri universe (sleeve), Friday, 1 May 2020 23:45 (four years ago) link
Good job, everyone (really!):
Update on last Friday's campaign: Fans paid artists $7.1 million in just 24 hours ($2.8m more than March 20th). Thank you for supporting artists impacted by Covid-19, and mark your calendars for the next #BandcampFriday on June 5th! https://t.co/hPhgm7WBR4— bandcamp (@Bandcamp) May 4, 2020
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 4 May 2020 17:29 (four years ago) link
Hopefully this is a dumb question, but how are people listening to digital music they buy on BC these days? Streaming through the BC app, or downloading and listening through other means?
Because I'm a huuuuge Bandcamp supporter and streaming sucks, yet I mainly buy music that I might put in a DJ mix (and so need the files), or use it as a tip jar and then still listen on some other artist-exploiting platform.
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 4 May 2020 17:43 (four years ago) link
Downloading
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Monday, 4 May 2020 17:47 (four years ago) link