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

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

Gonna have to keep that in mind.

I develop a real taste for this stuff when the weather turns cold; I was listening to Electric Ladyland 6 walking around in the snow today, and somehow got back to this label (whose output I've known about for a while; I reviewed the first Blood of Heroes album for Burning Ambulance a few years ago).

https://ouijaboys.bandcamp.com/

melding of EAI sound art with acid house music

https://daily.bandcamp.com/2017/01/31/bandcamp-human-rights/

all day this Friday, February 3rd (starting at 12:01am Pacific Time), for any purchase you make on Bandcamp, we will be donating 100% of our share of the proceeds to the American Civil Liberties Union, who are working tirelessly to combat these discriminatory and unconstitutional actions.

A bunch of labels and artists have signed up to contribute their profits as well, awesome.

I might be too easy of a mark for garage-goth bands with two female vocalists and a twang in their sound but I ran across this in someone's collection, checked it out and bought it three songs later.

http://burningpalms.bandcamp.com/album/burning-palms-album-digi-download

Here's my page. Am donating all proceeds thru next Friday to ACLU as well. : templo.bandcamp.com

Fela! https://felakuti.bandcamp.com/

Out today, Belgium Ethio-jazz/psych/dub and left coast Kosmische students:
https://blackflower1.bandcamp.com/album/artifacts
https://moonduo.bandcamp.com/album/occult-architecture-vol-1

Other recent releases:
https://thebats.bandcamp.com/album/the-deep-set
https://tysegall.bandcamp.com/album/ty-segall
https://themolochs.bandcamp.com/album/americas-velvet-glory
https://priests.bandcamp.com/album/nothing-feels-natural
https://sheermag.bandcamp.com/
https://theproperornaments.bandcamp.com/album/foxhole
https://marybellftw.bandcamp.com/album/mary-bell-lp
https://hasashadow.bandcamp.com/album/sorrow-tomorrow

picked up the Sheer Mag I, II, III EPs comp, Bitchin' Bajas and Mark Fossom's Lost Takoma sessions

love this album, only $4.99
https://vektroid.bandcamp.com/album/neo-cali

probably the best vaporwave thing out there, now expanded to actual album-size
http://esprit.100percentelectronica.com/album/virtua-zip

can rec a lot of good proggy stuff if anyone cares. it's a tad more expensive though

i'll join the deluge, here's my newest thing + a few of my absolute favorite electronic releases from last year (check the LOFT ep and the first SHALT release):
https://astralplanerecordings.bandcamp.com/

other labels worth investigating:
https://purpletapepedigree.bandcamp.com/
https://nervoushorizon.bandcamp.com/
https://closeupoftheserene.bandcamp.com/
https://hushhushrecords.bandcamp.com/
https://apothecarycompositions.bandcamp.com/

here are a bunch of things i've discovered over there over the past year or so: http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/tagged/bandcamp-monday

holy cow I have spent a lot of money on this site

The Resonars are a recent discovery, garage psych/power pop with great vocal harmonies worthy of The Hollies from Tucscon, been around since 1991.

They have their entire discography on cassette (and I presume any download) for $30:
https://theresonars1.bandcamp.com/album/the-complete-resonars

Compilation on Trouble In Mind from last year:
https://theresonars1.bandcamp.com/album/the-greatest-songs-of-the-resonars

Their 7 albums (possibly counting Butterscotch Cathedral side project) are consistently solid. My favorite is:
https://theresonars1.bandcamp.com/album/that-evil-drone

taking notes for when I go home this afternoon:

Drag City stuff
Sahelsounds stuff
the Ideologic Organ label
Grouper
Nurse With Wound
Fela
The Ex - this version of Moa Anbessa has a couple extra tracks not on vinyl, such a killer album
Jessika Kenney's Samar is digital only
Eyvind Kang - I still need Athlantis

just bought some stuff via https://badabingrecords.bandcamp.com/ (which is donating their half of proceeds today to Nigerian Muslim Association of New York)

ooh good call, I need that Dead C comp

I have a couple of things:

All of our share from the Slum of Legs bandcamp will be donated to Right to Remain, a charity fighting to stop deportations from the UK.

I have a track on Rhinoceritis, which was already a charity comp, donating their proceeds to both Border Angels and Forward Together. It's full of Ladyz in Noyz goodness.

Meantime just a general recommendation: Violet Cold. Some dude from Azerbaijan who loves him his black metal, post-rock and shoegaze and puts it together pretty nicely. (Sure, post-Alcest etc., but still works.)

https://violetcold.bandcamp.com/album/anomie

Back on today's fundraising -- Ba Da Bing subsidiary Even More Important put all its releases (limited lathe cut singles) up for name your price:

https://evenmoreimportant.bandcamp.com/

There's a one-day only Declining Winter oddities collection: https://thedecliningwinter.bandcamp.com/album/hurled-to-the-curb

I was finally tempted to buy the A New Line (Related) album: https://homeassemblymusic.bandcamp.com/album/s-t

Bought this a couple of days ago, too: https://homenormal.bandcamp.com/album/love-retained

xp awesome

I bought 3 jazz or jazz-adjacent albums today:

Josef Leimberg, Astral Progressions: https://worldgalaxyrecords.bandcamp.com/album/astral-progressions

Sons of Kemet, Lest We Forget What We Came Here To Do: https://sonsofkemet.bandcamp.com/album/lest-we-forget-what-we-came-here-to-do

Chip Wickham, La Sombra: https://chipwickham.bandcamp.com/album/la-sombra

YES to the Sons of Kemet

Don't forget Dust to Digital, they have tons of excellent offerings on bandcamp

https://dusttodigital.bandcamp.com/

Soundway too https://soundwayrecords.bandcamp.com/

Or you could visit the massive amount of records of one person
may i recommend:
https://paalnilssen-love.bandcamp.com/
https://worstward.bandcamp.com/

so many options!!

oh man those Dust To Digital releases will put me over my budget, thanks I think?

If you don't have Music of Morocco, I think it's worth the $ and the dl comes with a pdf that is excellent reading

Had no idea Soundway was on Bandcamp! I just tweeted a list of 10 recommended titles. (I'm @burn_amb on Twitter.)

i just followed you :) the cumbia comp never gets old. none of their stuff gets old for me tbh

nice, i remember really having to dig for those Ghana Soundz comps in the cd era

https://cathnor.bandcamp.com/album/boring-embroidery

you like AMM? this is AMM-like

The ACLU thing was a nice success, they raised over a $mil.

I forgot to mention this, which also came out yesterday -- Finnish band who have evolved from shoegaze/space rock/Kosmische to full-on psych prog. Additionally, they also made their 2014 album Ujubasajuba Name your Price available, and their first album is free.

https://kaironirse.bandcamp.com/album/ruination

They're great, btw, I've pre-ordered (physical copies of) Ruination and Ujubasajuba already.

can rec a lot of good proggy stuff if anyone cares. it's a tad more expensive though

― frogbs

DO IT!

"White Rose" is like Skittles lightly laced with psychedelics. Love this.

https://moonduo.bandcamp.com/track/white-rose

The ACLU thing was a nice success, they raised over a $mil.

People bought for over one million worth of music that day but ACLU is "only" getting 12% of that, the rest still goes to the artists, except for the ones who also decided to give their share that day (which amounts to about 400 labels/artists, so it's not negligible).