Starting this thread with an ulterior motive: finding good bandcamp music
But I thought a general ‘bandcamp recommendations’ thread might be better, so: what are your favorites?
Lately I’ve been listening to the anthology series of windrush era Caribbean music [London is the Place for Me](https://honestjonsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/london-is-the-place-for-me-2-calypso-kwela-highlife-jazz-from-young-black-london) (after a song by Lord Kitchener)
It’s definitely a 10/10 can’t miss if you’re at all into 50s and 60s music
I’ve also been listening to [tide life by the person](https://moontown.bandcamp.com/album/tide-life)
If you've ever thought "I wish there was music like Agoraphobic Nosebleed but not made by and largely for shitty dudes," here is your superior replacement
Music that's only on bandcamp? music that feels bandcamp-ish? or just the kind of independent music that's usually availabale on most streaming platforms but thrives on bandcamp?
@穴 ah I meant to write this part and forgot: all welcome for sure but 1 & 3 get bonus points. I wanted to do this thread so I’d be ready for any bandcamp fridays in the future…
Dream On by The Wild Ones is one of my all-time favorite albums. They‘re a girl-group I feel is best described as doo-wop meets surf rock meets pop-punk. 1000% my jam! I’m pretty sure they broke up buy I desperately want I want more music in their style!
[Gentle Leader by Peach Kelli Pop](https://peachkellipop.bandcamp.com/album/gentle-leader-2) is another album I love. It's girly lo-fi pop-punk I can't get enough of!
[Try Your Best by Mommy Long Legs](https://mommylonglegs.bandcamp.com/album/try-your-best) is edgier and more distortion-heavy but still girly punk.
I'm lukewarm on a lot of vaporwave/future-funk out there, but I've found myself listening to [Panic Pop's 5!ve 5tar](https://neoncityrecords.bandcamp.com/album/5-ve-5tar) pretty regularly. IMO it's pretty good stuff.
IDK! To me Bandcamp is mostly for girl-punk and future-funk. I'm looking forward to hearing other folks' suggestions!
Here’s a bunch of my most listened to albums from bandcamp—wanted to take more time to discuss them, but since it’s already Friday I figured I would just list them for now:
"Glass Cassette's songs are entirely based around samples and loops from Jonathan's 2001 high school choir concert cassette, a warped VHS with local news, French 101 assessments, field recordings, and beats created from samples of office supplies and tools."
I've been listening to this group a lot lately. Spotify recommended me a song from that first album ("Black Willow") in June of 2020, and I had lost track of it until recently listening to my Liked Songs on shuffle—I found it again on the same day I finished Kentucky Route Zero, which, to my surprise, concluded with a [song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRmf0SqtpSk) sung by the Loma vocalist. Very odd coincidence.
"Sundogs" from that first album is a piece of work
Honestly I can't even be bothered thinking about the implications. Reading that news this morning, all my brain could muster was something like a vomiting emoji.
My favorite way of discovering new music has been to just dip into the stream of whatever was just published on Bandcamp. No filters, just dunking my head into the infinite stream of new stuff
I’ll listen to a bit here and there of whatever track they list as the preview one, and then listen to the whole album if that intrigues me. I’ve found some cool stuff this way! Here’s a cool, slower electronica piece that got published like 10 minutes ago
Post all your Hot Off The Presses Bandcamp tunes here, if you dare…!
Sometimes when I see that I’ve bought an album and very few others have, I browse the collections of the others who have bought the album and often find very good music that aligns with my taste.
A few of my most recent discoveries (not necessarily from using the above method):
A witch house thing (I listen to a ton of witch house music):
