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[auxien]

Bandcamp Friday again today y’all 

[Scaramouche]

Picked up something new, and a wishlist item. Might have another look later today...

[ignatius]

tomorrow is bandcamp friday. 

digging this sort of techno lushness + ambient things a lot. it's kinda dreamy and escape feeling

https://formthehead.bandcamp.com/album/the-future-is-not-human

 

[ignatius]

https://m3ds.bandcamp.com/album/rag-order?from=fanpub_fnb

 

[auxien]

money is an illusion so i just gave away a bunch of it

got a lot of great music in return

win/win

[whosebrian]

Hats off to bandcamp.

[Rubin Farr]

Question about free downloads on Bandcamp; sometimes free downloads are added to your collection, sometimes not. Is there an option the artist can toggle that makes it available in your collection or not?

[Rubin Farr]

picked these up on Friday

[auxien]

2 hours ago, Rubin Farr said:

Question about free downloads on Bandcamp; sometimes free downloads are added to your collection, sometimes not. Is there an option the artist can toggle that makes it available in your collection or not?

if a release is free/name your price by default, then you can download them for 0.00 (the artist can require you give an email address or not), but the act of downloading the release does not add it to your collection, ever.

if an artist gives out a download code for an album that otherwise requires purchase, when you redeem the download code at bandcamp.com/yum you'll see the following screen:

you have to of course enter the correct download code, but also check the appropriate box for the item to be added to your collection. otherwise i believe you just get to download it then, but then can't ever again, unless you choose to later purchase it.

i think that's how it works for everything mentioned above, but someone please do correct me if i'm wrong.

Edited October 3, 2021 by auxien

[Rubin Farr]

46 minutes ago, auxien said:

if a release is free/name your price by default, then you can download them for 0.00 (the artist can require you give an email address or not), but the act of downloading the release does not add it to your collection, ever.

if an artist gives out a download code for an album that otherwise requires purchase, when you redeem the download code at bandcamp.com/yum you'll see the following screen:

you have to of course enter the correct download code, but also check the appropriate box for the item to be added to your collection. otherwise i believe you just get to download it then, but then can't ever again, unless you choose to later purchase it.

i think that's how it works for everything mentioned above, but someone please do correct me if i'm wrong.

that's the standard logic, but I have downloaded free tracks before that just showed up on my collection, for no reason. who knows 

[sidewinder]

I bought these. Probably would have gotten more but I'm buying a new house soon and gotta be a little thrifty.

 

[auxien]

Bandcamp Fridays in 2022 | Bandcamp Daily

been a few months without, i figured they were dead and gone, but they're coming back for the rest of this year at least:

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The next Bandcamp Friday is September 2nd, and they will continue on October 7th, November 4th, and December 2nd. 

 

[no part of it]

29 tracks as part of a benefit compilation for Leslie Keffer who has epilepsy and has been denied disability for five years, including tracks by Otto Von Schirach, Skin Graft, Unicorn Hard-On, Studded Left (formerly Indian Jewelry), Laundry Room Squelchers, Fletcher Pratt, Sharkiface, and more.  

 

Leslie also has a new release, excellent ambient / vocal pieces.   Some might know her from her activity in the 2000s, opening for Sonic Youth and playing other larger fests where experimental music and noise would still be embraced.  She did mostly radio noise mixed with vocals, and apparently still uses radios in her work, although it's evolved to be more refined.   

This tribute is on a netlabel that also has a youtube channel called "This Machine Kills Music", with videos about industrial/noise.  They have a recent video on Zero Kama, who first came to prominence on the Necrophile label.   It's really thorough for anyone intrigued by music made with human bones and other ritualistic entrapments.  Moon Musiq, the net label, has a tribute to Coil, a compilation dedicated to (and apparently in praise of) bugs, and this tribute to Throbbing Gristle.   Well put-together all around.  

 

Edited September 4, 2022 by no part of it

[auxien]

i've already got a stack of 4 or 5 releases i'm grabbing today, surely going to add a few more. great day to load up on new tunes.

[auxien]

reminder to go chip away at your bandcamp.com wishlist today

[Danny O Flannagin]

Had a nice haul yesterday and bought these:

https://iliantape.bandcamp.com/album/itlp09-pool

https://bigthief.bandcamp.com/album/dragon-new-warm-mountain-i-believe-in-you

https://oxherding.bandcamp.com/album/soft-moon-2

https://leisuresystem.bandcamp.com/album/hidden-structures

https://paracusiamedia.bandcamp.com/album/pure-gravy-ep

https://jamesholden.bandcamp.com/album/the-animal-spirits-2

https://computerbeats.bandcamp.com/album/dreamstate

[auxien]

lots of good shit grabbed today, listen/linked out at araucariaceae's collection | Bandcamp