Bandcamp Friday Buyer's Guide: May 1st
As well as all the many new releases, some labels are choosing to direct all today’s proceeds to the artists, while others are donating their share of sales to charity. (Some labels are extending the discount beyond today.)
It’s a big world out there, so we’ve compiled an alphabetical list of new releases and participating labels. Dig in.
Tracks & EPs
• Adam BFD – “L’apogée”
• Ali Berger – Dream Energy & The Stew
• Ami Dang – Meditations Mixtape Vol. 1 [LEAVING]
• Aquarian – Don’t Look Back In Hanger: Edits 2014-2019
• Arjun Vagale – Archives // A
• Aspetuck – Demos
• Baby T (B. Traits) – Portra [Samurai]
• Bella Boo – Hey Ladies [Puss]
• Big Miz – “Sonder” / “Opia” [Unknown To The Unknown]
• Big Voyage – “Electroencephalogram”
• Bit Folder – Silicon Frontier [CPU]
• Blazer Sound System / CS + Kreme – Tanka Riddim / Crushed Cream
[Efficient Space]
• Bored Lord – Beltane
• Carmen Villain – “So High You’re Mine”
• Champion & Mina – XYLA
• Cromie – Splits
• D.K. – Eighteen Movements
• DJ Judy (MarceauxMarceaux) – Welcome To Hell
• Doxa & Kilbourne – Ham Shop
• Dreamcycles – Future Lights And Archetypes [Queeste]
• Eiko Ishibashi – Memory Of Future
• exael + special guest dj – wub life / circle
• Factor XIII – Xtracting First Blood [Club D’érange]
• Fennec – “Finding Rest In A Weary World”
• Fixate – Glare [Exit Records]
• Freddy Fresh – 1996 [Earwiggle]
• Gag Reflex – The Fae [Naivety]
• Hej Fund – HFGTX01 & “Laps”
• Hodge – Lost Trax Part 2
• ISRAFIL – “BOLE WATERFALL KE NEECHE”
• Jabru – “Glass Floor” (Radiophonic Workshop Remix)>
• Jay Glass Dubs – “Shape” feat. Jasmine [Berceuse Heroique, sampler from forthcoming LP, Soma, with Hodge remix]
• JD Twitch – May Day [Optimo Music]
• Jex Opolis – Net Loss
• Jordan GCZ – Lushlyfe III
• Khotin – Archive 13-15 Vol. 1
• Klein Zage – Tip Me Baby One More Time [fundraiser for restaurant workers]
• Kuma – Den Sounds
• Lakker Rave System – Demos 2005-2006
• Lawrence English – Lassitude
• Lionmilk & Mndsgn – Forever In Your Sun [LEAVING]
• Liquid Earth (Urulu) – Liquid Earth
• Lo Kindre – Dusk /Grey Skies [Phase Group]
• Lord Of The Isles & Ellen Renton – Whities 029
• Loscil – Faults, Coasts, Lines
• Matthew Mercer – Separate
• Memory Scales – Music Files Vol. 1
• Midnight Blue (Moving Still & Kobina) – City At Dawn
• Mistareez – Pure Acne [Angels Never Expire]
• Nailah Hunter – “Nacre Meadow” [LEAVING]
• Nick Léon – Refraction
• Northworks – Magnetics
• okachiho – groove 12 [outlines]
• Open Courts (Ana Sia & Hej Fund) – OPC001
• Pacific Coliseum – Silenzio Vol. 1
• Patrick Holland – Simstim
• Pär Grindvik & Pfirter – “Neu” / “Mover” [Stockholm LTD]
• Perko – Places / Spaces
• Planet Dust – 640
• quest?onmarc – FOR CLUB USE ONLY (? x Club Chai Exclusives)
• Romaal Kultan – Everlasting Romance [Tiff’s Joints]
• SDEM – Vortical Shredder
• Sim Hutchins – “MKAT NOT MDMA”
• Soul Ipsum – One Wish
• Steamroom (Jim O’Rourke) – Steamroom 48
• Strategy – Everywhere And Nowhere
• Strict Face – “Wildcat”
• Tiro! – Hoover Days
• Tomu DJ – Tomu DJ
• Unknown Mobile – Leafy Edits Vol. 1
• WHEEZ-IE – Loose Trax 3
• Zodiac (Monty Luke & Brendon Moeller) – Truth Decay
• ZULI – Trigger Finger Remixes
Albums
• ASC – Pattern Recognition: First Sequence [Auxiliary]
• Ben Lukas Boysen – Mirage [Erased Tapes]
• Christina Vantzou & John Also Bennett – Landscape Architecture
• Cocktail Party Effect – Cocktail Party Effect [Tectonic]
• dBridge – Inhibited [Exit Records]
• Dro Carey – Three new albums
• Elysia Crampton – ORCORARA 2010 [PAN]
• Florentino – Love 2 Hate | Hate 2 Love
• GEORGIA – CANAL Vol. 1
• Klein – Frozen
• Hoshina Anniversary – Odoriko 2.0 [Alien Jams]
• IHHH Memory Palace [Salmon Universe]
• Matthewdavid’s Mindflight – Care Tracts [LEAVING]
• M. Geddes Gengras – Time Makes Nothing Happen
• Matthew Dear – Backstroke 3
• Matthew Patterson Curry – Scores Vol. 1 [Mysteries Of The Deep]
• Max D – Shaping & Drizzling Glass [Future Times]
• Nathan Micay – The World I’m Going To Hell For [LuckyMe]
• Nereid (ASC) – Selected Works [Warped Core]
• Niagara – Pais & Filhos [Príncipe]
• Oliver Ho – Oliver Ho Archives Vol. 1
• Peder Mannerfelt – Live At Atonal 2015
• Physical Therapy: Hyperextension: The Complete Remixes Vol. 1
• Plant43 – The Countless Stones
• Sam KDC – Temperance
• Sarah Davachi – Five Cadences
• Sean McCann, Matthew Sullivan, Alex Twomey – Saturday Night [Recital]
• Secret Circuit – Drive Diggers 15
• Stephen Mallinder (of Cabaret Voltaire) – Pow Wow [reissue of 1982 LP on Suction]
• William Basinski & Richard Chartier – Something From The Pink House
• XqST (Exquisite Corpse) – ∀∃ [Isla]
Compilations
• Best Effort Records – Stay In Bed Vol. 1
• C12 – Social Distancing 1.2
• Coastal Haze: The Album
• First Second Label – *Completely Sold Out Rarity
• Fault Radio – Waking The Doldrums [Bay Area artists benefit compilation]
• Five Miles – Five Miles From Home
• Good Room – Alone Together
• Huntleys + Palmers – BLTRSX
• Hyperboloid Records – ISO
• L.I.E.S. – An Easy Way Out For Those Who Can’t Escape
• Mana Records – Dream Tech
• Measure Divide – Isolate Exp 005
• Nocturne – From Belfast With Love Volume 1
• Optimo Music – Hidden In Plain Sight: Dance Floor Deep Cuts From The Optimo Music Catalogue
• Qu Junktions – Hope You’re Well
• Quarantine Sonic Squad – DAL de Vivre
• R&S Records – In Order To Care
• Radio Benska – A Gallup Unchained
• Studio Barnhus – Serenity Now, Insanity Later
Other goodies
• Foundational American synth band Emeralds have re-released their whole catalogue, along with some unheard goodies
• broken20 has a raft of new releases ranging from techno to experimental and ambient.
• Irish house and techno producer TR One has uploaded most of his work.
• J. Sparrow’s label Navy Cut has released a handful of new dubstep-leaning EPs
Since the pandemic began, we’ve been focusing heavily on Bandcamp as the most direct way to support artists, including with weekly roundups. Check out our previous roundups for more great Bandcamp releases:
• April 24
• April 17
• April 10
• April 3
More ways to help #SaveOurScene: buy music and merch, sign petitions, offer and receive support, donate, attend virtual events.
