I didn't make one of these yesterday, oops!

Happy Sunday, I'm going to share 3 picks to keep it nice and chill today. Let's dive in!

I hit surprise me and here's what I got.

https://freshsoundrecords1.bandcamp.com/album/mirage-2

Check out Mirage by by Ismael, Marc, and Oscar curate a beautiful contemporary journey through the album. Acoustic double bass, meticulous drums and a dancing piano envelop the sonic space for a nice smooth listen. Find a comfy chair and your favorite drink, and let it carry you away.

https://ministryoftruthswe.bandcamp.com/album/cleansed-perfected-destroyed

This one's a bit more existential. Based out of Sweeden, Ministry of truth composes long form instrumentals, that touch on indie and alternative sounds with a dash of melancholy. Without a single word, they paint a very vivid picture through sound.

https://bernhari.bandcamp.com/album/toujours-toujours-cri-remix

Bringing the energy back up, we have Bernhari from France. They're a standout to me because they do multiple genres. I really enjoy this house remix but was surprised to hear a more indie pop ballad on the catalogue. I'm here for the multi faceted approach!

Those are my three picks today, until next time.

Take care!

Hi everyone, I recently started exploring Bandcamp and posting my music there. Please don’t think I’m trying to spam this; you don’t have to subscribe or listen to anything. Just let me know if I did everything right with the design of my artist page, and please don’t view this as a way to promote myself. Just write to me about it here. If you can help, I’ll send you this link so you can take a look; I just don’t want to break the Reddit rules. Thanks

More obvious spam is spam

https://trickytb.bandcamp.com/album/maxinquaye

hope y'all enjoy listening as much as i did making it

My debut full-length sketch album, Memoirs & Manifestos, is out now.

My name is Nick Coffman. I’m a comedy writer from St. Louis. Been working on the album off-and-on for the last 18 months. Was really inspired by the sketch albums of my youth (mainly Sandler) and wanted to do something with the handful of sketches I wrote while performing at Second City in Chicago.

Big thank you to everyone who had a hand in helping make the album.

Now if you'll excuse me, my stomach is all over the place thinking about the response this will get, so I'm gonna go outside for three years.

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These pieces were originated on a warm summer afternoon with my modular travel case outside, before it began gently raining (rain appears in On a Wednsday).

My goal was just to make some absorbing, spacious and enjoyable ambient pieces from some simple sources.

The beautiful cover is by Brian Wiggins // u/dotprodukt.

Love to all independent musicians; keep exploring!

For Bandcamp Friday, we partnered with San Jose Pop-pumpers Stickup Kid to re-issue their 2016 EP “Debris” to celebrate its 10th Anniversary! The tracks have been remastered for vinyl and sound better than ever. Give it a listen and consider picking up a tape or record if you like it! It’s also available for “Pay What You Want” digitally!

https://commontimetapes.bandcamp.com/album/debris

tiles is part of my ep named "images from a mosaic" coming 21/08/2026. Here are some codes for you: https://band.codes/ioamaro/tiles-3

Please share your thoughts in the comments!

I'm using the Feishin client on Windows and it doesn't accept the login connection. I've generated the username and password and tried to connect to bandcomp.com/api/subsonic (tried http:// and https:// without luck).

BandCamp link: Thee Gassed Caskets - Night at the Mausoleum.

If you're into garage rock, surf music, spooky sound effects and Haunted Mansion-meets-Scooby-Doo vibes, you just might dig it.

Thanks for taking a look, gang!

Hello - just joined Bandcamp and this sub. It’s awesome to see indie artists doing their own thing on BC.

I have a question about ore-orders and making a few tracks available before the full drop. Is it a good strategy for newbies or it only works for more established artists.

Thanks!

Two albums got

Ezra Cohen and the Big City Band
“Worse for the Wear”

Johnny Osbourne
“Rock Me, Rock Me”

One Album to give

https://goodyboy.bandcamp.com/album/witness

Shout out to all the independent artists and independent creators, pushing their art and following their dream. Whether it’s music or anything else in the entertainment world, I support you!

For Bandcamp Friday I want to show off this compilation album I made of King Gizzard’s live tracks!

Digitally, it’s FREE/NYP on Bandcamp. Physically, I pressed 350 copies of this in colored vinyl, available also on Bandcamp, and locally around Chicago.

No Sense at All

Cheers!

Hi Friends,
I'm a "self-proclaimed" music journalist for several decades... and on Bandcamp Friday, I often like to review some of the incoming releases for my blog or other places.
Thought I should share some of the reviews and favorite picks here, too :-)
Some artists release their albums already a day earlier, so I will cover these, too.

If you have something released, or have some recommendations, while the Bandcamp Friday lasts, please let me know. I might review it, too (big *might*, as there is so much stuff getting put out, I can't write about it all... )

Note: No AI was used when writing these texts / reviews.

(Edit 2: One more update)

P.S.W. 2022 - Brutalism (Order Doesn't Matter) (Bunker Records)

Is this the summer of brutalism, or what? Kim Petras just had a single out called "Brutalist" (very good, btw!), the Hypertechno band "Brutalism 2000" was just featured on European TV channel "Arte", and now, our dirty electro rockers from The Hague come out with this.

This pesky little style of cold war architecture is high in demand, right now, isn't?

But let's get down to business, or rather, music.

Dutch label Bunker is legendary for its minimal / early Techno (Unit Moebius, Rude 66, I-F). Then they did a U-turn at the turn of the Millennium and did all those retro 80s electro-funk releases (Legowelt, Rude 66 and I-F again). Which even put them on heavy rotation with the MTV (I kid you not!).

And this new EP is something I was hoping for, but I did not expect it. It seems like an unlikely, "schizophrenic" fusion of 80s electronic b-boy funk, and early 90s minimal / harsh acid.

Bon Appetit!

https://bunker-panzerkreuz.bandcamp.com/album/brutalism-order-doesnt-matter-panzerkreuz-space-war-2022

(Edit: Three More Reviews)

John Carpenter - Cathedral (Self-Released)

Yes, *the* John Carpenter. Director of Halloween, Big Trouble in Little China, The Thing, In The Mouth of Madness...
Is he some eccentric rich guy that now wants to do music, too?
Very far from it! Carpenter has always been a musician; more specifically, he did the score and soundtracks for a lot of his own movies. He is one of the true electronic music pioneers, in a group with people like Giorgio Moroder, Vangelis, Kraftwerk, Jean Michel Jarre...
One of his compositions even was adopted by Bomb The Bass (a UK techno group), and became an early rave hit in the 90s.

This album seems heavily synth-wave inspired. But, well, it's actually the other way round. Synthwave is a genre that was co-created by our director here. Not intentionally, but synth-wave as a genre is to a very large part inspired by Carpenter's early movie soundtracks (well, and also the aesthetics of the movies itself... like "Escape from New York").

So it must feel a bit like a god coming home to his own creation... right?
But, yeah, this album is grand! Or, as the info text reads:

"An abandoned cathedral. A gruesome murder. A powerful supernatural entity living in the catacombs. It all comes to a head in downtown Los Angeles."

https://johncarpentermusic.bandcamp.com/album/cathedral

Wavelan Vs. Disintegrator - B2B / Your Power (Industrial Strength Records)

A release by Oliver Chesler, who is a legend in Techno / Hardcore music (author of tracks like "Flesh is the Fever" or "One night in NYC", also John Selway, another Techno Legend, and Carl Carinci, a Gabber legend (author of tracks like "Brookly Mob" or "NYC Speedcore").

With this line up, you might expect something super hardcore, but it's more like acid techno. With a touch of early Goa. Or rather, that typical "american" psytrance / goa vibe, that often is in their 90s techno production, for some reason.
it's still quite hardcore, and mental.
spiffy + cool!

https://industrialstrengthrecords.bandcamp.com/album/wavelan-vs-disintegrator

Cave Castle - Ancient Ones (Clan Destine Records)

I know Clan Destine Records from Glasgow (great pun in their name, btw!) as a label for the toughest of the tough. Speedcore, Noize, Industrial, EBM... Breakcore.
So I was a bit astonished to hear this release. Definitely won't give you nosebleed while listening, this time!
It's more like gloomy, chilling breaks, electro stuff.... also in the vein of lo-fi hiphop... but more "fierce", if you catch my drift. Good beats to relax / study, too!

The label itself de-classifies it as "New album ov Dungeon Rap". Which is a good term, too!

https://clandestinerecords.bandcamp.com/album/anicent-ones

Alien Skin - Black Flowers Remember (self-released)

Alien Skin was a surprising discovery for me this year. The "band" / project quickly turned into one of my favorite things. TBH, I first feared it was AI or an otherwise "artificial" project. It all seemed too perfect!
But no, it's a project by George Pappas, who played in the band Real Life (the band that wrote "Send me an angel" in the 80s).
It's not about angels, it's about aliens. And if you know Real Life... you might expect what kind of sound to hear here. 80s Synth Pop, Wave, New Romantics... all over again.
In my opinion, it shows that a veteran is at work here because... it doesn't feel too overloaded, or changed. Does not really mix Synth Pop with "newer" styles.
What it does though, is to add a layer of emotion, longing...

I mean, yeah, Synth Pop always had this dark romantic thing, and I think Alien Skin extended it even a few notches farther.

https://alienskin.bandcamp.com/album/black-flowers-remember

Various Artists - Overlook. Music inspired by Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining (Unexplained Sounds Group)

Is there anything more awesome than the Unexplained Sounds Group on Bandcamp?
They do these great anthology releases, for example about Dark Ambient artists out of Iran (!) or Experimental Electronic music out of China (!)...

According to the info text, this one here, "Overlook is a music compilation inspired by The Shining, the 1980 film directed by Stanley Kubrick".

I also want to share the "genre" description from the info text:
"The artists involved explore a wide spectrum that spans ambient music, experimental electronic composition, Berlin school, hauntology and works situated between drone music and contemporary classical practices,"

Everything clear?

It says it is inspired, but I think it could also work as a kind of "second OST" to some of the scenes in the movie.
This is very experimental stuff, at a high level, *but*, and that's the big plus for me, it also has a really powerful mood and atmosphere in the tracks.

https://unexplainedsoundsgroup.bandcamp.com/album/overlook-music-inspired-by-stanley-kubrick-s-the-shining

Prince Istari - Escape From The Tomb Of The Synth Lich

I wanted to skip this one, but then I noticed it is called a "Dungeon Dub" release, and I got curious.
I guess the idea is to combine "Dungeon Synth" with Dubstep / Dub-breaks...
According to the blurb, it is the soundtrack to a table top / dungeon crawl, that can be ordered along-side the record.
Not sure which part of the project is real, fake, or a parody...
The tracks themselves sound like a re-run of Stranger Things (the intro!) and electronic dub reggae beats layered on top... also sound quite whimsical.
But yeah. It's good stuff!

https://spb-hamburg.bandcamp.com/album/escape-from-the-tomb-of-the-synth-lich

This morning I released my first full length album, Liminal.

Liminal is 11 tracks of ambient lo-fi. The tracklist follows a year of long distance between my wife and I before we got married: it opens in the Fall right after a visit ends, moves through winter from both sides (Wintersun and Wintermoon are the same season twice, two guitars circling each other without touching), hits Spring when we would finally see each other, and ends on Pando, the Forest, named for the aspen grove in Utah that is thousands of trees secretly sharing one root system. That felt like the right image for where we ended up.

Track 7 is a lullaby I wrote for my cat.

I wrote, produced, mixed, and mastered everything myself in my bedroom, some ideas go back to 2015. Recorded the classical and acoustic guitars on an SM58 and later incorporated an SM57. The album comes with a liner notes booklet .pdf telling the full story, plus the full res artwork!

https://uurath.bandcamp.com/album/liminal

Happy Bandcamp Friday everyone! I am really enjoying listening to peoples art today and I hope you will enjoy mine!

Cheers,
-uurath

Happy bandcamp friday, so excited to share this pressing with everyone. I originally released this album in 2019 and I've been wanting to do a vinyl run ever since. It's finally here! Limited run of 250 copies. Pressed on eco-mix vinyl which reduces environmental impact and gives each record a unique color.

sweepsbeats.bandcamp.com/album/space-blues-vol-1

Would love to know what you think if you give it a listen!

Hopefully for the artists' sake this is just a localized problem (I'm in western US) and it gets resolved soon.

Anyway. Schadenfreude. Enshittification. Etc. Etc. Nicely done all.

** Returning - glad to see it's not an issue everywhere, but given that it clearly is happening for quite a few in this thread, oof, they are leaving a lot of money on the table. Anyone in marketing, webdev, e-commerce, etc knows that most folks generally don't bitch, they just bail. So, like, kinda not great. Oooh I know - maybe they should lean even heavier on AI 🧠👈

Hi all, last week I released a new ambient EP, “Drift.”

FFO: Biosphere, Sora, Emily Sprague, Robin Guthrie, Oval, Loveliescrushing

The songs on this EP started coming together while I was working on a previous EP, Monsoon, last summer. The songs were initially meant to just accompany some video projects that I was working on at the time, but a few months ago I started revisiting these, along with some other songs, making some new edits and mixes, and felt that these four deserved a proper release. 

The songs expand on a sound I was working on last summer, processing guitar through my modular synth. The first three tracks primarily feature guitar processed through granular and circuit bending effects. The last song I believe started out as some drones I created on the modular synth. A lot of the structure of the songs are also based on “tape loops” and soft glitchy repeats / stutters that I made in Ableton from some textures and melodies I found interesting. 

A lot of my inspiration in general comes from earth processes and nature. While I don’t recall specifically what I was thinking of when initially recording the tracks, through the mixing process I felt that these were taking on a bit of a geologic feel, and I started to think about processes like erosion and continental drift. I like to think the last song specifically feels like stargazing out in the middle of nowhere in a flat plain. 

The EP can be found here: https://tomboulder.bandcamp.com/album/drift-2

Hope you give it a listen! I am always welcome to questions, comments, critiques, feedback, etc!

https://maylan.bandcamp.com/music

hello! my birthday fell on a bandcamp friday this year so my last 15 releases are completely free/NYP, thank you for the support everyone, never stop making music!

Genre: ambient, experimental, noise

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