Bandcamp

Mad_Cyril Fucking gimps. They really need to sort out the site. I lost about 70euro worth of tracks from the cart a few month ago. All because I cleared my cache.

Mad_Cyril bizarrely I had exactly the same thing happen to me on Beatport the other day! Lost a load of stuff I’d put in a Hold Bin that I’d been waiting on a decent sale code for.

ScottBailey
Shambles

https://hjordis-britt-astrom.bandcamp.com/music
I have found some pretty cool stuff on this label. Theres 333 releases and everything is Name Your Price

Looks like they’re waiving their fees tomorrow.

Just got a mail from Freerange offering 15% off everything.

Will take the edge off their over-priced mp3s

Does anyone actually use this site for finding new music? I’ve been trying lately and am finding it to be an unpleasant chore. If anyone has any tips, I’d like to hear them.

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.