Free/"Name Your Price" Bandcamp Album Compendium

http://zackdagoba.bandcamp.com/
Dude screwing around with a modular synthesizer!

http://rubbercitynoise.bandcamp.com/album/cinco-de-mayo-in-space
Cosmic drone! (Bonus: everything on this label is free!)

http://kanoi.bandcamp.com/album/blisterfinger-with-tankstellenproleten
You got your Kraut rock in my post rock! No, you got your post rock in my Kraut rock!

rubber city noise -- hometown homies!

more top hole early 90s noisepop from the aussie archives

http://trucktraintractor.bandcamp.com/

http://crucifixinadeathhand.bandcamp.com/
Swedish hard rock! Band name and album title (Do Androids Play Electric Guitars?) of the day!

http://hotfog.bandcamp.com/
"Kill You in the Face!"

http://gypsyhawk.bandcamp.com/
NSFW awesome throwback metal!

http://vlastapopic.bandcamp.com/
Eastern European garage rock!

That Gypsyhawk is all kinds of awesome. I bought the CD back when it came out. Love the Thin Lizzy influence, can't wait for the new one!

Ha, looks like Gypsyhawk had to raise money in order to take their new label Metal Blade up on their last-minute invite to SXSW. Sounds like the album is due around June.

Just out now!

http://icedragon.bandcamp.com/album/tome-of-the-future-ancients
Ice Dragon's 3rd album. Creepy stoner/doom from Boston.

Thanks for the tip off on the Ice Dragon. Found some good stuff linked from them as well:

http://thesandcollector.bandcamp.com/album/lord-of-the-sun
South American Stoner metal!

http://domoband.bandcamp.com/
South American psychedelic slag!

http://exemption.bandcamp.com/album/public-cemetery-party
Torche-ish! Not from South America.

Also, just in time to miss St. Patrick's Day: a crazy archive of obscure Irish metal bands. I've been enjoying Trojan and Blackwych.

http://irish-metal.bandcamp.com/

White Triangles - the Night Is Ours
http://whitetriangles.bandcamp.com/album/the-night-is-ours
Icy ambient!

Icy maybe but definitely not forbidding. Like playing in the snow at night in a nice fur-lined parka and mittens.

Aww man, loved this band back in the day. It's an old record (2002), but apparently it's getting release on vinyl and is available on Bandcamp.

Ashrae Fax, from Greensboro NC. A lot of Cocteau Twins in their sound (a LOT, singer has a similar voice for sure) but done really well: textured synths, guitars, and programmed drums etc. Really love this record:
http://ashraefax.bandcamp.com/album/static-crash

guy i went to college with -- pretty good!
http://martinroyle.bandcamp.com/

just switched my 2010 record to free/name-your-price:
http://chants.bandcamp.com

it's a weirdo kitchen-sink electronic record. all live instruments, elements of jazz, dub, dance, breaks, morricone rock, etc.

This record is one of the best things I've heard all damn year. Instrumetal doom of the highest order (yes, I dropped the n from instrumental on purpose). Feel the riffage of Iron Mtn:

http://ironmtn.bandcamp.com/album/iron-mtn

Fantastic Finnish psych/kraut dudes with a hilarious made-up bio that claims they've been around since 1970 and that Andreas Baader plays bass for them.

http://hiskodetria.bandcamp.com/album/static-raw-power-kraut-demo

really like that album cover

or album art. I guess it's not really a cover for anything.

Thanks for the recommendations, guys, this stuff is great!

Meanwhile, I have a request – anyone find any good Zombi/Goblin type stuff for free download on there? I've been looking for some.

Fresh crop!

http://quilt.bandcamp.com/
Nerdy folk-prog!

http://thehangedmanandthemoon.bandcamp.com/album/just-one-shot
Jazzy psych!

http://witchescoven.bandcamp.com/
Throwbacky metal!

http://witchstone.bandcamp.com/album/ep
Sludge/doom EP

http://digdown.bandcamp.com/album/live
live new orleans-style brass band

http://talesofmurderanddust.bandcamp.com/
Scandinavian shoegaze! With a sitar!

My friend has been running a twitter account called audiocloud based around a very similar idea to this thread - he personally curates a selection of bandcamp links to freely available independent music that he's enjoying, laying it out nicely using the album art embedded in each tweet and the twitter 'favourites' facility. Although he doesn't use ILX, I have shown him this thread for interest & inspiration and because it fitted with what he'd been doing for a while, and thought that you folks might enjoy his take on it too...

https://twimg0-a.akamaihd.net/profile_images/1226251422/audiophileRADIOblue.jpg

Only tangentially related question: Is there a way to adjust the volume when streaming on Bandcamp pages?

http://digdown.bandcamp.com/album/live
live new orleans-style brass band

― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Monday, April 16, 2012 12:54 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i finally remembered to listen to this and it's great

http://olivetroopsos.bandcamp.com/album/atol

^^ post-rave/droney improvisations

New Roswell Incident track up today for those who wish to drone.

http://theroswellincident.bandcamp.com/album/high-orbital

There's probably one in there I missed, too.

Does Bandcamp do subscriptions/notifications and I just missed that?

i finally remembered to listen to this and it's great

thanks nick! i think it's pretty representative of how the band sounds live, warts & all (lots of warts).

Talk about sleeping on a band for nearly 20 years! Snail recorded their debut at Razor's Edge in SF, where Sleep recorded Holy Mountain, put out an EP, disbanded, got back together and released Blood in 2009, and now Terminus. Only available at name yr price temporarily.

http://snailhq.bandcamp.com/album/terminus

Blood was great! Have to give Terminus a go.

That's pretty good, though on the busy side, at least the intro track. I'm still much more into the languid/doomed side of the stonerverse.

New Bellows single:

http://bellows.bandcamp.com/track/see-bright-be-fine

http://sunpreachers.bandcamp.com/album/faces-of-ashes
French stoner/psych. Really kicks on on "Nail King".

http://trippywicked.bandcamp.com/album/going-home
St Albans band Trippy Wicked & the Cosmic Children of the Knight formed in 2006, and play bluesy stoner rock with a touch of sludge/doom, along the lines of Wo Fat. 2009 album Movin On is worth hearing too.

http://drokk.bandcamp.com

Okay, it's not free unless you stream, but it's fiiiiiiiiiiiiiine. 70s-80s SF synth soundtrack paradise.

Whoa, it's been a while. Here's some good stuff:

http://perturbator.bandcamp.com/album/terror-404
80s John Carpenter/Zombi-esque synth soundtrack stuff! Name is dumb, music isn't!

http://biomass.bandcamp.com/
Epic, repetitive Kraut jams!

http://animalweapon.bandcamp.com/album/good-luck
Chill, glitchy electronica!

http://guacho.bandcamp.com/album/vol-i
Toasty stoner jams, man!

http://weareape.bandcamp.com/album/the-dirger
Heavy stoner jams, man!

http://re-stoned.bandcamp.com/album/vermel
Instrumental stoner jams, man!

Perturbator is the winner in the bunch so far. Perfect flipside to the DROKK record.

Yeah, they really nail that 80s soundtrack vibe without turning into "chill wave" or whatever.

ha perturbator is sick

The EP is pretty good, too – eight bit cover of "I Ran!"

Here's some more stuff along those lines. Apparently it is called "dream wave." Or something:

http://alphaboymusic.bandcamp.com/album/electronic-feelings

http://playmaker.bandcamp.com/album/future-to-fantasy

http://adderallcanyonly.fieldhymns.com/album/fists-of-dayton

Dreamgazewavechillbaton. Core.

I wish people would stop naming things that I might actually want to listen to things that make me never want to listen to them.

namegate.

namewave

in that vein, I also wish "bandcamp" was called something better than "bandcamp," b/c it really is a good platform

word

namename

Alpha Boy isn't bad so far, but it's not the instant smash hit that Perturbator was. I want to say there's something twee about it that's keeping me from diving in entirely, but that's ridiculous, right?