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[The thread title is a reference to the message you get when you go to download music other than 320 kbps MP3s] I've sporadically bought music from Bandcamp; sometimes SA-related, sometimes linked from elsewhere. I recently discovered one of my all-time favourite artists, Dean Garcia from Curve, was releasing amazing stuff there and I came to adore the site. It seems to be a progressive, great business model, and decent place for artists to release their music, but it skews highly toward indie. There's some amazing music, but piles and piles of poo poo too. What made me want to start this thread is that the website's music discovery is terrible. Basically I've only discovered great stuff there from direct recommendations. Albums are completely streamable, and purchasing them is generally cheaper than any other online store. They're occasionally free, and often just a buck or two. As well, you get your choice of formats. Being able to buy FLAC means I don't give two shits about having a physical CD. Recommendations: So forewarned, I grew up loving shoegazer and electronic music, so that's where my recommendations will go: First off, Quirk in the ebm thread pointed out this Dean Garcia album. He's mostly known as half of Curve, an awesome highly influential shoegaze/electronic band in the 90s that Garbage ripped off.  http://deangarcia.bandcamp.com/albu...haus-volume-one quote:Das Haus features Besides his fantastic solo stuff, Garcia has a post-Curve band called SPC ECO which are outstanding:  http://spceco.bandcamp.com/album/3-d Check out the first two tracks for nice modern dreampop. The first one is produced by Alan Moulder. ----- I first started getting into Bandcamp because of this recommendation from alancross.ca, Tashaki Miyaki. Three chicks and a dude from San Francisco making wonderful dreampop. Check out the Sweet Child of Mine cover. I also really like the Troggs track.  http://tashakimiyaki.bandcamp.com/ ----- I discovered this retro Vancouver band years ago on an MP3 forum. The EP on Bandcamp is decent, but their album Dreamatic, which you have to get elsewhere is great too.  http://fmattack.bandcamp.com/ ----- Found this on a "best of 2012" list on a major Toronto blog:  http://betafrontiers.com/album/ep Basically pure early 2000s electroclash, but I like them a lot better than say Fischerspooner or Add N to (x). (But not as good as Ladytron.) ----- What great stuff have you found on Bandcamp?
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Most Recently: Perturbator - I Am The Night: http://perturbator.bandcamp.com/ Great synth work, almost John Carpenter-esque. It's also one of the few times I've seen a concept album in recent memory. Disasterpeace - Soundrack for Fez http://disasterpeace.com/album/fez Some of the best music ever. Overwerk - After Hours: http://albums.overwerk.com/album/after-hours The first half of the ablum is really great, the second half left me wanting.
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Toluca are a great Russian band fusing post-rock/metal, screamo and black metal. Highly recommended. (€5) La Mar make stunningly beautiful post-rock from Venezuela. ($5) Airs produce hauntingly beautiful shoegaze/drone/post-rock/noise that is vaguely reminiscent of projects such as Have A Nice Life. (FREE/pay what you want) Dephosphorus write really intense black/grind. (€4/FREE) Marnost are producing seriously good atmospheric black metal from the Czech Republic, and putting a lot of the current USBM projects to shame in the process. (FREE)
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Jenks Miller of Horseback and Mount Moriah just put out a bunch of digital EPs. They're each weird droney slabs of music. One of them is free while the others are only 3 dollars. Taurus is a really strange drone duo. I just picked their album LIFE up a few days ago and I haven't heard anything like it. ($7) Flashlights is a great local band. They're very pop-punky and they toured with Frightened Rabbit a few months ago. Also, they're good people. ($5)
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Should we post our collection pages?
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If you're into hip hop, especially more modern experimental stuff, you should check these guys out. Knxwledge - http://gloof.bandcamp.com His remix of Danny Brown's album XXX blew me away. This guy seems to release a new EP every couple weeks, it's amazing. Sort of reminds me of Madlib. Ohbliv - http://ohbliv.bandcamp.com/ Samples a lot of 80's R&B and has a pretty cool low-fi sound. Lakim - http://lakim.bandcamp.com/album/stuckinthe90s This mans ability to transmute Crystal Waters - Gypsy Woman into new, wonderful things is unmatched. Sango - http://sango.bandcamp.com/ Dank trap music.
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Chaos Royale Combines dubstep, militaristic industrial and harsh noise for an album that is the most creative and crushing release of the decade so far. It costs 5$. http://chaosroyale.bandcamp.com/ Pig Champion Has released an album and an EP. The album, Oppression Breeds Violence, is fairly standard crossover thrash. The EP, Grief, combines death/grind and crossover and is the angriest sounding thing you're ever likely to hear. Both releases are name your price. http://pigchampionchicago.bandcamp.com/
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