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

o.nate, do you use bandcamp to buy physical media or digital albums? or a mix?

I've only ever bought digital there.

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.

pleased to manage both a stray url tag *and* more traditional unclosed brackets in that post there.

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

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.

I bought a Putrescine tee and an alb by Ripped to Shreds

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.

new live 75 Dollar Bill album is killer, listening now

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.

Kode9 posted some tasty treats https://kode9.bandcamp.com

Bernard Snowy, you are too kind!

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.

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 :)

got three Lich King albs for a name your own price. but I tell ya, the Ripped to Shreds is killer.

wow, thanks for mentioning the Girlpool demos ... gonna grab those for sure.

btw the new X album is totally great!

https://xtheband.bandcamp.com/album/alphabetland

the new WHAT

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.

Feminazgul is not my thing but kudos for the name

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

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.

Downloading

My favorite New Orleans street band, Tuba Skinny.
https://tubaskinny.bandcamp.com

purchase mp3s (320), stream to stereo via sonos.
there is the bandcamp streaming option in sonos, but i have no need for it after purchase.

Downloading flac files, playing on foobar through external DAC and stereo system. Or converting to 320 mp3 and playing on portables.

Happily converted to fully virtual listening, although the occasional pdf booklet to accompany a bandcamp d/l would be appreciated.

flac 4 lyfe

My favorite New Orleans street band, Tuba Skinny.

They are great. That b-side comp looks interesting, nice that it features lots of tracks with Erika.

I made more money from @Bandcamp on May 1st, 2020 than I have from Spotify in their entire existence.

— Chris Schlarb (@schlarb) May 4, 2020

So, when's the next "date"?

it's fridays, maybe the first friday of the month?

yes

https://www.residentadvisor.net/news/72485

I'm not a Tuba Skinny fan, but I'm a notorious hater and I'm glad people are enjoying it.

I do need to start using Bandcamp + Sonos. For the app, I wish it was possible to easily download tracks you've bought for offline listening, a la Google Podcasts (and I assume most podcast apps). Maybe it's possible and I'm an idiot?

I download everything I buy on Bandcamp. It's right on every album/ep/track in your collection--a "download" text link that lets you select the quality (i.e. FLAC, mp3-320). Or right after you complete a purchase, the page it takes you to says "download" and if you set the quality you want, it then gives you links for every item.

I use the (non-mobile) website for buying/downloading, haven't used the app. But there must be a way there, too.

I download too, but unfortunately my downloaded files are very separate from my home listening setup these days. I used to use iTunes + iPod and listen to files in the car, now I don't use the iPod anymore (and don't drive a car). The files just go on my usb for possible mixing.

with another Bandcamp revenue-share day coming up Friday, and then one June 19, i'm hoping folks could point to some excellent music (available on Bandcamp) made by Black artists that speaks to the Black experience in America and/or BLM, police brutality, racial inequality, etc.

any/all styles and sounds welcome.

clarification: they're sharing revenue w/ artists Friday and with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund June 19

pink siifu - negro

https://ronee.bandcamp.com/album/negro

Roy Kinsey - 'Blackie' (2018)

One of the best albums of the 2010s.

https://roykinsey.bandcamp.com/album/blackie-a-story-by-roy-kinsey-2

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1476940587_16.jpg

A mix of personal & ILM faves:

Jamila Woods: https://jamilawoodsmusic.bandcamp.com/album/legacy-legacy
Dawn Richard: https://dawnrichard.bandcamp.com/album/new-breed
We Are KING: https://wearekingmusic.bandcamp.com/album/we-are-king
Shabazz Palaces: https://shabazzpalaces.bandcamp.com/album/black-up
Sudan Archives: https://sudanarchives.bandcamp.com/album/athena
Christian Scott: https://christianscott.bandcamp.com/album/ancestral-recall
Makaya McCraven: https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/universal-beings
Damon Locks: https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/where-future-unfolds
Noname: https://nonameraps.bandcamp.com/album/telefone

Noname has been really politically and socially activist this last year or so - another thing to support: https://www.nonamebooks.com

i revisited LEGACY! LEGACY! yesterday. a complete and total masterpiece.

https://drewsthatdude.bandcamp.com/track/2door-2

https://dj-surgeon.bandcamp.com/album/screw-the-roses-unreleased-sessions

https://Bstep.bandcamp.com/album/psy-op

My friend/collaborator Arthur Brooks is selling downloads (needledrop, because the original tapes are lost) and original pressing LPs of his 1978 release Nightcaller. 100% of the proceeds go to the artist.

Apart from a few brief tracks scattered on a couple of Bill Dixon compilations, this is the only officially-released documentation of the Black Music Division at Bennington College, where Arthur taught for over 20 years. He's a trumpeter-composer, and was a member of Brute Force (album on Embryo with Sonny Sharrock), the Cecil Taylor Unit, and a number of Bill Dixon's ensembles.

https://arthurbrooksensemblev.bandcamp.com/releases

https://moodymann.bandcamp.com/album/taken-away-kdj-49

Black/POC punk compilation (full disclosure, I am friends with some of the organisers): https://decolonisefest.bandcamp.com/

A whole spreadsheet somebody made of black artists: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OIUBp4kFxmpWJihhq6WLwJQR1Am4DsD59bEYlJZxeGY/htmlview?fbclid=IwAR0ji4iO4yT4DWrvvDg3hvTq0n5ux9GtS7BoGSHZbMSLBpo-lUgjodvaOvg

My band has a thread of recs for black/POC artists: don't know if this stops it from embedding?

Soundslike also has a really good thread of recs but I'll let them share it if they want to!

I just realised I left the facebook referral bit on that spreadsheet - don't kill me!

Things I have bought today:

Yazz Ahmed, When We Were Live (digital-only live EP, only available through Sunday)
Various Artists, Perihelion 2134 (name-your-price compilation from the noise/D&B label Ohm Resistance - I paid $5)
Kevin Richard Martin - Frequencies For Leaving Earth Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 (dark ambient work from the Techno Animal/Zonal/The Bug dude)
Broken Shadows - Broken Shadows Live (Tim Berne, Chris Speed, Reid Anderson and Dave King playing tunes by Ornette Coleman, Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden and Julius Hemphill)
Ill Considered - Ill Considered 8 & 9 (a dubby jazz group from London)
Bunny Lee, Prince Jammy & the Aggrovators - Dubbing In The Back Yard & Conflict Dub (two rare dub albums reissued by Pressure Sounds)
The Revolutionaries - Drum Sound & Maxfield Avenue Breakdown (two compilations of dub, also on Pressure Sounds)

I know this is insignificant by almost any measure, but because of preexisting health issues I can't physically participate during COVID. So trying to come up with a way to help, since I still (for now) have a job, and so does my wife, we are doing the following:

On 6/5, all of @Bandcamp's $ goes to artists, and on 6/19 to the @NAACP_LDF

Retweet this w/ a link to a Black artist you love on Bandcamp, and I will buy you an album + donate $10 here: https://t.co/PmLe0JwWJg

This is a thread of artists you should hear & support pic.twitter.com/xzQQH1g7Bd

— Musicophilia (@musicophiliamix) June 4, 2020

Basically:

[*] Retweet that tweet and link to a Black artist whose work you love, on Bandcamp
[*] DM me (on Twitter) with (2) albums by Black artists on Bandcamp you'd like, and an email address Bandcamp can send the download links to
[*] I'll donate $10 to bail organizations for each participant (going to donate $1,000 regardless), and a producer friend in Chicago will match in full
[*] We'll buy you the two albums you want

Hope some people here can participate/spread the word. We've gotten about 25 participants so far, hoping for another 75

Dang, can't even *give away* music to people on a messageboard called "I Love Music"? ; )

Come on folks, share and hit me up over on twitter--we're at about 35x2 albums bought so far, trying to get another 65x2...