…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:
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.
^ 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"
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:
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":
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.
(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
Sadly neither Bandcamp nor Bleep has his brilliant shitpost of an album in which he remixes Yello’s iconic “Oh Yeah” for an entire EP without ever once letting Dieter utter the title line.
@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!
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