Bandcamp

I browse elsewhere, buy on Bandcamp.

Homegrove Yeah, I do that sometimes already.

I’m not finding as much stuff that I like as I used to on Beatport, so thought I’d try digging around Bandcamp. They certainly don’t make it easy!

Matt
I do the same as Hanu. But I do find it very good for hip-hop especially the instrumental stuff.

One of the things I have done is find about 30 or 40 people who are prolific Bandcamp users with similar tastes to my own. Then I follow them and browse their collections and wishlists regularly. It becomes like 6 degrees of separation. From them I will often find a track I like, see who else has purchased it, browse their collections and continue like this. I have found some really good stuff this way, and it can be a real interesting dig.

I don’t get why anyone peruses band camp or beatport for music. I just use them as e-commerce sites when I like a track on SoundCloud, seeing as every label/artist generally posts new tracks on there - and usually the full track rather than a shitty beatport clip. Then I go to bandcamp first as you get a better price and quality, and finally beatport.

Millsy That’s a fair point.

I suppose it’s mainly due to the fact that over time I’ve followed lots of artists/labels on Beatport and have used those to put me onto more artists/labels.

Until lately it’s worked quite well for finding new music (and old music that’s new to me). I use Soundcloud mostly for listening to mixes.

Because I buy so much on Bandcamp, I get daily emails from any artists/labels that I have purchased before, which helps to take some of the sting out of it. The most effective way of doing it I find though is to subscribe to the YouTube channels that post new Bandcamp and vinyl only stuff. You get some that are Beatport releases as well, but it is massively weighted towards Bandcamp. Obviously using YouTube is a lot easier to search, listen and the algorithm tunes into the type of stuff you are looking for as well.

Can’t remember all of the YouTube channels off the top of my head but the ones I can think of are:

After Rave
Some uncertain sir
Ballacid

Mad_Cyril the feed is pony. Where stuff it uploaded in advance on release day you don’t get to see it

I tend to go through my ‘following’ list once a week and search from there

Mad_Cyril i think you need to tell them you’ve had 100 plays on Soundcloud

erik
Over. Over 100

FFS.

The bandcamp feed and some aspects of the app are indeed really stupid.

I get quite a bit of music from there so it’s a shame.

As an aside, I got my full data history from Spotify recently and it’s obviously helpful for what I wanted but at the same time a bit scary.

I was really hoping epic was going to bring bandcamp’s UI into the current millennia. Now I’m assuming the platform’s days are numbered.

Mad_Cyril

Happens to me all the time. They stop sending the emails, and if that doesn’t work, you get the cease and desist letters asking you to stop playing their music.

Mad_Cyril sorry, OVER 100

Seriously contemplating going back to Beatport

So in the ‘Fan’ settings in my account, all the email options were miraculously unchecked.

Have re-set, see what happens.

Tenterhooks etc etc…

New features announced, not read or tried yet!

https://blog.bandcamp.com/2023/12/12/discover-a-new-way-to-shop-on-bandcamp/