mccFeb 3, 2023

So today is "Bandcamp Friday" https://isitbandcampfriday.com/

…the magical day Bandcamp (Epic Games) takes a 0% cut & every purchase gives a bit more money to the musician.

Back on Twitter I had a very, *very* long list of Bandcamp music recs I built out over two years of Bandcamp Fridays. I don't like linking to Twitter anymore so I've now moved the entire thing, plus five new recs, into a Cohost megapost:

https://cohost.org/mcc/post/922976-bandcamp-friday-reco

Click here for somewhere over 90 album recommendations (I lost count)

Is it Bandcamp Friday?

Is it?

Show threadmccMar 3, 2023

It's Bandcamp Friday again so I'm bumping my Bandcamp recommendations megapost on cohost (^ see upthread ^)

I added two new recs to the end today:

"Vale" by @tsrono

This is an absolutely lovely album of alternating atmospheric ambient and chirpy, punchy IDM released last month. Good textures, good songwriting.

There's a lot of other material on Tsrono's bandcamp I've only scratched the surface of (I did like "endless nothingness").

Recommended track: iyrin

https://tsrono.bandcamp.com/album/vale

vale, by tsrono

12 track album

tsrono
fudguyMar 4, 2023
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"Ischemic folks"

This CD was a cryptic artifact that entered my life mysteriously and left it just as mysteriously; I found it for a dollar in a discount bin in Ireland, listened to it constantly for a few years, then it got stolen out of my car. Afterward I couldn't remember how "Ischemic" was spelled and couldn't prove to anyone it had ever existed. It's on bandcamp! It's real! It's a sampler of bands connected to Push Button Objects & Richard Devine.

Rec: Tape Birth

https://schematicmusiccompany.bandcamp.com/album/ischemic-folks

Ischemic Folks, by Various Artists

12 track album

Schematic Music Company
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Show threadmccApr 7, 2023

^ Bumping this thread as it is Bandcamp Friday again.

Added a new rec to the end of my Cohost post today:

"kendall :3"

kendall aka Barroo makes pop music with surprising sounds and absolutely enormous emotions. You get the feeling that anything is on the table with her, pop tracks could drop into breathtakingly progressive electronic production or hard electronica tracks could dissolve into soft rock.

Rec: Basically all of "hey" but esp. "waves" and "string lights"

https://heylol.bandcamp.com/album/hey

hey, by kendall :3

12 track album

kendall :3
Show threadmccJun 19, 2023

Bumping this thread ^ because there has been a surprise Bandcamp Friday… on a Monday!! Sort of! To commemorate Juneteenth, today Bandcamp is doing a unique event (https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/juneteenth-fundraiser) and donating the entirety of their "cut" of sales today to the NAACP LDF. So if you simply add 20% to your purchase $, this will be exactly the same as a Bandcamp Friday plus you gave a bit of money to the NAACP.

I also edited my Cohost recommendations post ^ to add two giants of minimalist electronic music:

Today, Join Bandcamp to Support Racial Justice, Equality, and Change

Bandcamp Daily
Show threadmccJun 19, 2023

Éliane Radigue:

Radigue is/was a contemporary of Delia Derbyshire and Wendy Carlos, making strange, enigmatic, early-electronic experimental music that still stands out as shocking and alien today, even now "Drone" is a recognized music genre. Radigue excelled at hypnotic soundscapes, long, slow pieces often consisting of one single electronic sound building and receding. Her bandcamp stretches from 1969 to 2000(!).

Recs: The album "Feedback Works 1969-1970", "N​°​17":

https://elianeradigue.bandcamp.com/track/n-17

N°17, by Éliane Radigue

from the album Opus 17

Éliane Radigue
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Richie Hawtin (Plastikman):

Hawtin is a 303+808 dance techno artist who acquired, and earned, the title "minimalist composer" for his unique spaced-out approach to the instruments. This Bandcamp has his entire discography including rarities (the Warp Records "F.U.S.E." releases, an incredible obscurity named "Concept 1") but the highlight is his quartet of 90s albums as Plastikman, culminating with "Consumed", a 70-minute slow-burn that begs to be listened to in one go.

https://richiehawtin.bandcamp.com/

Richie Hawtin

Richie Hawtin
Show threadmccJun 19, 2023

(The Cohost version of my Plastikman summary above is about twice as long, I kinda got carried away and wrote a whole blog post lol)

Oh, also if you saw the new Boris/American black metal collaboration track https://mastodon.social/@mcc/110466266038791740 I posted a couple weeks ago in my "listening to today", the full album that's from (all in collaboration with Uniform) is up for sale now at the same link and it fuckin rips

Show threadEric VitielloJun 19, 2023
@mcc his Musik album was A+++
Show threadDag Ågren ↙︎↙︎↙︎Jun 19, 2023

@mcc Every time I see the name "Plastikman" my brain just immediately plays the intro to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NocNKiPxdIs at high volume, in a residential area.

Which, now that I actually listen to the rest of it, is a pretty 303y track, so that's a nice connection I guess.

Awex - Wicked Plasticmen

YouTube
Show threadDag Ågren ↙︎↙︎↙︎Jun 19, 2023
@mcc Somehow that sample has just permanently burned itself into brain as the entire rest of the song quickly faded away.
Show threadduke itch / juke itchJun 20, 2023
@mcc is concept 1 really that obscure? I remember buying it from a department store and that it was reviewed in major publications in Germany. Then again, I was really into this special kind of nimeties minimal minimal techno music. Anyway, thanks for the link, really cool to dig back in!
Show threadmccJun 20, 2023

@dukeitch Oh, that's interesting! Remember tho for 90s techno my concept of a "rarity" is "difficult to obtain in 1996 in Houston, Texas"

Very probably Atomic Music had it but they only sold vinyl

Show threadduke itch / juke itchJun 20, 2023
@mcc yeah I mean techno was kind of big in Germany then. Anyway I‘m blasting it right now with my kids and it‘s elevating
Show threadduke itch / juke itchJun 20, 2023
@mcc Studio 1 by Wolfgang Voigt is even more minimal, but in a similar vein: https://kompakt.bandcamp.com/album/studio-1
Studio 1, by Studio 1

10 track album

Kompakt
Show threadmccJun 20, 2023
@dukeitch Ahh, I'll be looking forward to listening to this, thank you!
Show threadduke itch / juke itchJun 20, 2023
@mcc very welcome!