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

smooth age, from that night burger comp, is very cool. i like the faraway tribal drums and overall menacing vibe. good recommendation.

this is a REALLY good ambient/noise album:
http://droneclone.bandcamp.com/album/droneclone

an old pal's album from a few years back is up on bandcamp now
winter-vacation.bandcamp.com/album/blue-coaching
he's great

http://winter-vacation.bandcamp.com/album/blue-coaching

okay, this is awesome and hilarious. childbirth's it's a girl.

this song from the childbirth album -- how do girls do it? -- has been on a continuous loop all day. this is a great little album.

http://bonzoterks.bandcamp.com/album/quartet

excellent jazz quartet whose debut album I've been loving for over a year now. A second album coming out soon, and I'm looking forward to it.

http://smallwonder.bandcamp.com/album/wendy-2

http://angelsdiehard.bandcamp.com/

sterling beat me to it:

http://f0.bcbits.com/img/a3556908290_10.jpg

http://smallwonder.bandcamp.com/album/wendy-2

http://hammersofmisfortune.bandcamp.com/

I hope this doesn't get dismissed as stupid without investigating: the soundtrack to Minecraft is actually one of the better ambient records I've heard recently, and has some flat-out stunning moments.

http://c418.bandcamp.com/album/minecraft-volume-alpha

ha, dlp, I've never played Minecraft, but I'm gonna check that out for sure.

genius minimal synth candy with a made up backstory that detracts not at all from the ace tunes

https://karennovotnyx.bandcamp.com/album/nothing-here-now-but-these-recordings-78-79

http://f0.bcbits.com/img/a2238347451_10.jpg

http://bellows.bandcamp.com/album/blue-breath

New Bellows album. Bedroom buzz-pop. Propulsive & person.

Batsignal to s.clover for cosign

http://f0.bcbits.com/img/a2026903251_10.jpg

http://music.sharplessmusic.com/album/the-one-i-wanted-to-be

Difficult second album from Sharpless. Major Batsignal to s.clover and M4ur4 on this one for writing them up in the Voice like 3 years ago

this album so good

wau, the bridge on gemini!

Dilly Dally. From Toronto, have two songs up on Bandcamp, and that's all I know about them. The earlier track is kinda meh, but I've had "Next Gold" on repeat periodically throughout the afternoon:

http://dillydally.bandcamp.com/track/next-gold

well, there's this:

http://howtoswim.bandcamp.com/album/niagarama

Rhyton - The Emerald Tablet

http://threelobed.bandcamp.com/album/the-emerald-tablet

Powder Blue - Dream In Black

http://powderbluemusic.bandcamp.com/album/dream-in-black

Two songs into this four-song EP by Philadelphia band Beach Slang, and I'm kinda digging it.

https://beachslang.bandcamp.com

The best Bandcamp releases of 2014: http://www.factmag.com/2014/12/01/and-this-one-timethe-best-bandcamp-releases-of-2014/

TESD Christmas 2014.

discovered these guys due to one of their tracks being used on a recent episode of "high maintenance" - http://phantasmosis.bandcamp.com/

my brother turned me on to this band, theyre like a more scuzzy punkified thin lizzy - http://sheermag.bandcamp.com/

sheer mag is really awesome wow

yeah "what you want" is a monster tune

some good stuff I have bought recently:

http://shop.fieldhymns.com/album/re-entry
https://emptycellarrecords.bandcamp.com/album/a-swirling-fire-burning-through-the-rye
https://shredderghost.bandcamp.com/album/i-guess
https://sdzrecords.bandcamp.com/album/armure
https://mjmjrecords.bandcamp.com/album/relation-tempation

Sheer Mag just got my $4!

i love bands like Sheer Mag where they operate w/such (in a sense) totally played out forms and influence but there's some sort of undefinable spark to it and the tunes are just THERE

reminds me of the Exploding Hearts in that sense though these guys add a few more classic rock moves to their power pop/garage punk

oh sweet sheer mag opening for ex hex in nyc in april

i am all for well-executed exercises in form, the endless pursuit of the new is fuckin exhausting sometimes

that's a great opening gig for them they will go over well w/ex hex crowd i would imagine

reminds me that sleater kinney is saturday!

Opening for king khan n BBQ over here so that'll be great

Thanks 4 this Michael

this is great
https://canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/a-better-cure-a-brief-history-of-the-okeh-laughing-record-its-progeny-1906-1946

sheer mag is really awesome wow

― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, February 12, 2015 11:19 AM (1 hour ago)

"sit & cry" sounds like royal trux made out of candy instead of drugs

haha totally

another good find - https://diejungen.bandcamp.com/album/at-breaths-end

haz y woozy 60s influenced pop. i assume theyre german

Digging these Ukrainian bass-forward shoegazers https://onthewane.bandcamp.com/releases

this one is actually free, but really good spacey shoegazey/cocteau twins type stuff by the hilariously named Bliss UK (from minnesota)

http://ukbliss.bandcamp.com/releases

https://computerclub.bandcamp.com/album/peak-cut

https://unblinkingearrecords.bandcamp.com/album/all-dressed

https://pnpinc.bandcamp.com/releases
interstate, rocky mt. collaboration

Baroque & Philosophic Girl, Illusory EP. Darkwave/techno from a Japanese duo, on the Unknown Pleasures label from France. Roughly $5 and worth every penny.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/20/arts/music/bandcamp-shopping-for-music.html

Bandcamp hired a smart staff to create about 20 times the amount of editorial content that had been there previously, writing about music that had just been posted as well as parts of its deep and woolly catalog, in a feature called “Bandcamp Daily.”

Anyone reading this stuff on the site regularly? I see that M*rk M*sters, who co-wrote that experimental/avante rock column for Pitchfork , is writing for them a bit

I'm writing for them too. Nothing I've done has been published yet (their lead times are print-mag long), but I just turned in a guide to the Axiom Records catalog - which is being reissued, piecemeal, on Bill Laswell's Bandcamp page.

stuff i've read has been really good, def seems like they are hiring lots of good ppl

The awesome New Zealand band Beastwars (kinda Kyuss-y, but more pummeling) put out their third album The Death of All Things - their first since 2013 - back in April, but I just found out about it today, so it's become my final music purchase of 2016.

Bought 7 albums from the Ohm Resistance label today. They do heavy, noisy, industrial-ish dub and drum 'n' bass; Bill Laswell appears on a bunch of their releases, and they put out stuff by Scorn and by the group The Blood of Heroes, which features Laswell, JK Broadrick, and others.

I got:

Submerged, Violence as First Nature (plus its bonus DJ mix disc, which is separate but pay-what-you-want)
Submerged, Before Fire I Was Against Other People
Submerged vs. Bill Laswell, After Such Knowledge, What Forgiveness?
Silent Killer + Breaker, Amongst Villains
Imaginary Forces, Filth Columnist
Imaginary Forces, Uppstigande

Yeah sex is great but have you ever gone through your Bandcamp collection and downloaded all the preorders you forgot about

Haha, I'm the opposite, waiting impatiently for the label to flip the switch on release day. And no, this doesn't always happen according to schedule

I keep my preorder zip files in a separate folder for this specific reason!

Stuff I bought this Bandcamp Friday:

Herbie Tsoaeli, African Time (South African jazz)
Joe Henderson, The Complete An Evening With Joe Henderson (live date with Charlie Haden & Al Foster)
Jerome Deupree/Matthew Shipp/Joe Morris, Travelogue
Construct Of Lethe, Corpsegod, The Grand Machination, Exiler and A Kindness Dealt In Venom (death metal; the last album is a pre-order coming out in June)
Temulent, Progressive Illness Vols. 1 & 2 (drum 'n' bass)
Attic, The Invocation, Sanctimonious and Return of the Witchfinder (very King Diamond-esque metal)