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Here's my latest work

https://thejesusclause.bandcamp.com/album/prentiss

check out the last two songs, I would love input!

>one-man, experimental, shoegaze, dreampop

Hey guys made my first song recently and I'd like to share it with you.. Acoustic, drum and bass. Made in fl studio and recorded vocals with audacity. Free play and dl at https://stay-away.bandcamp.com/track/gone

Thanks for checkin it!

>>50122825
Good job for your first song. Takes a lot of coordination to plan a whole song out. The songs has some tempo issues, and the transitions could be a little better. Keep making music!

http://thefancyballoons.bandcamp.com

>art rock, indie rock, psych, folky, worldbeat

>>50122609
Dig the production, keep it up!

Very short beat tape I just finished.
>beats, samples, instrumentals
aarthritis.bandcamp.com

Hello everybody I am back with the same shit over and over until I forget about it

https://twistpillar.bandcamp.com/album/grow-colossal-ep-in-progress
>noise-folk, "experimental, uplifting drone, emo-ish

Do you like it? Hate it? Anything you'd change if you were me? Would you buy a cassette once it's finished?

>>50123220
a-aaron?

>>50123333
Haha yeah, who are you?

>>50122507

I'm early!

https://rrite.bandcamp.com/

>minimal techno
>scary noises
>symbols

Thanks guys.

>>50123353
Good stuff, digging it

Also here are my recs for you guys
https://vanishes.bandcamp.com/album/all-cities-flashing-always
>death pop, noisey chiptune, super fun
https://e-f-d-g.bandcamp.com/album/through-the-fog-and-the-driftwood
>oceangrunge, noise, ambient, catchy as fuck
https://dredcollective.bandcamp.com/album/machine-girl-wlfgrl
>hardcore, footwork, IDM, house, rave, noise

https://wastedwastedwaste.bandcamp.com/album/thistle-blossoms
>Experimental
>Noisy
>Occasional Spoken Word
Just released this tonight i'm pretty proud of the last track

https://bluehydrangea.bandcamp.com/album/our-deepest-fear

>vaporwave
>electronic
>shitcore

>>50122609
>https://thejesusclause.bandcamp.com/album/prentiss
This is some of the better shoe gaze shit that ive heard on bandcamp I'm actually going to download this

https://entrylevel.bandcamp.com/
>experimental psychedelic dreamjazz
>new material coming soon, as well as solo stuff from Polysemy and Ocelot
check out this video we made for our old EP:
http://youtu.be/I9tDj5eWrQs

check out Ocelot's demo here:
https://o-celot.bandcamp.com/releases

check out Polyssemy's demo here:
http://youtu.be/eh4bJUwL95Y

https://lovedbystars.bandcamp.com/releases
>Dream Pop, Psychedelic

>>50122609
wasn't the biggest fan of the drumming on the first track but dig the sounds / production on the other songs. great job man.
>>50123220
Yo, these beats are dope. very smooth

viral

hi guys, if i posted a recording of me singing and playing guitar, could i get some feedback (on my vocals)? don't have a bandcamp but there's not really anywhere else to post it, don't want to make a thread either.

http://loganarcher.bandcamp.com/album/greater-escapes

>dream pop/folk
>themes of gender, relationships, faith, and escapism

finishing up my new record, it's going to be my best.

https://markspound.bandcamp.com/releases

>post-rock, indie rock, experimental, post-hardcore influences, emo influences

>>50122609
I like how you're able to create an atmosphere thats just as full as a lot of shoegaze but mainly using only percussion, where in a lot of shoegaze, the drums and percussion seem to be drowned out by guitars. I really liked this but some of it was just too out there for my mood at the moment. I'll probably come back to this later though

>>50123313
I think the voice sample at the beginning is almost too painfully bad quality, but I like how your able to combine all of your experimental sounds into your music, rather than having a lot of noises in one section, then a lot of normal music in another section. Everything feels a little uptight to me though at times in terms of rhythm

>>50123784
i downloaded this a few days ago, and i love it. This might be the best thing i've ever discovered through a bandcamp thread. The songwriting is simple but still very interesting, and everything fits together really well

https://ballisticsqueeze.bandcamp.com/

>dark folk, music, stuff, things, trying to rewrite a song is difficult, help my life

An Author, A Poets first ep. Let me know what you guys think. Thanks. http://anauthorapoet.bandcamp.com/album/better-days

>>50123976
I really like this track. Sweet vocals.

these are great!
>>50122609
>>50123739
>>50123784
>>50123493

http://bluecrew.bandcamp.com
>>chill// dreampop// r&b

My debut LP 'Life in Technicolor'
is being released thru Senzu Collective this sunday:

http://senzu.bandcamp.com

and give my newer stuff a listen!

https://soundcloud.com/bluecrew

>>50123798
i don't really think its viral marketing when people are listening each others music and discussing it. People like >>50123313 >>50123353 >>50123493 >>50123739 >>50123837 >>50123976 >>50124004 might be viral marketing but there are a decent amount of people here just to give feedback to other musicians, and see what other musicians have to say about their music

New music video!
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co8AdEUktgg

cashew.bandcamp.com/track/para-eva
>l.a. beat, securitycameracore

indec.bandcamp.com
>noisegaze, math folk etc.

Like me on Facebook here: /cashewmusic (and message me here if you would like a release on my netlabel, all genres accepted!)

>>50124078
its funny because a lot of times when you accuse someone of viral marketing they get really offended, but all the people you accused probably won't even be back on the thread

>>50124078
What makes them "viral marketing" if they're openly posting under their own name? Do you realize what viral marketing is? Posting in a bandcamp thread isn't viral and is an extremely inefficient and ineffective form of actual directed marketing.

>>50124111
Again, viral marketing is not posting your link in a bandcamp thread. Why do you guys insist on trying to turn them into circlejerks?

crossposting

this is our first album - give it a listen, let us know what you think!

lendermusic.bandcamp.com

>>50122609
The guitar tone you have is great, what's your setup? The drums could be improved though.
>>50123012
Heavily recommended, very good mix of styles that doesn't sound forced. I'd love to hear a full-length.
>>50123220
The production is fantastic and it sounds smooth as anything, keep it up.
>>50123313
I'm not sure about this...it's constantly changing and it feels like there's not one secure piece of ground for it to stick too.

I have to go now guys, but here's some other great Bandcamps:

raremonk.bandcamp.com
>post rock, electronica, highly recommended
ourclothes.bandcamp.com
>glitchy pop/folk
sigmundfreund.bandcamp.com
>chillwave, synthwave, ambient, trap-influenced
hambling.bandcamp.com
>ambient
hanz.bandcamp.com
>experimental hip hop
maantis.bandcamp.com
>electronic, psychedelic
ullapul.bandcamp.com
>electronic
thekupplungen.bandcamp.com
>slanted and enchanted meets black foliage, "slacker psych"
lendermusic.bandcamp.com
>heavy psych, blues

ourclothes.bandcamp.com

>post-ironic-avant-tard

assume complete agency you scrawny dick hole

>>50124124
I guess it's not viral marketing, but it ruins the point of the thread when a bunch of people are sharing their music without acknowledging the music of the other people posting, because then what you get is a bunch of people seeing a bandcamp thread, posting their music, and no one actually ends up listening to the music on it

>>50124124
see, it's easy to tell you're one of the said aforementioned virallers. no one would post shit like what you just posted without having a stake in it. normal people don't care and thus will not defend an accused viraller.

>>50124151

thanks for the shoutout! you the man

>>50124225
You're welcome!

>>50124185
That wasn't the point of these threads until a bunch of angry anons started circlejerking over Foliage and other lightning rods of viral accusations.

>seeing a bandcamp thread, posting their music, and no one actually ends up listening to the music on it

That doesn't happen now! In fact it's even worse now since everyone's under pressure to listen to every single Bandcamp. Now, instead of people posting their own Bandcamp, and maybe discovering others' at their own pace, you have everyone spending like 30 seconds listening to one track and then writing some useless feedback based on that. You can always see it in these threads. Obviously no one's listening to full albums if you look at song lengths. And most of the comments consist of either "I don't listen to this genre but I guess this is good" or misinformed faux-technical shit about volume or mastering. Half the time you can tell the comments are based on intros to tracks instead of the tracks themselves because they need to post their useless reviews as fast as possible. Look at the other thread for a particularly bad example. No one listens to 10+ albums in 5 minutes. It's fucked up, and it's disingenuous, because now everyone posts bullshit and no one listens to anything. Someone said it was like turning the act of listening to music into a form of currency, and that's exactly what happened. "Feedback" means NOTHING now, since no one listens to the music and no one listens to the feedback.

maybe i'm missing something but isn't the point of these threads to "viral market" in the first place?

if you cut the buzzwords and projected belief systems it's just a bunch of musicians trying to spread their music around. is that really worthy of hate?

An interesting find from another thread...

http://pyzzaswyng.bandcamp.com/

>Surf/skate punk
>Essential highschoolcore

>>50124262
and you seriously don't think the people posting poor feedback aren't viral marketers themselves trying to make themselves look like victims?

>>50124276
yes. music should be discovered organically. it's not a coincidence that every album you see in this thread is pay what you want and not free. you're expected to pay. they're literally holding their hat out for you to drop money in. do you give your money to some beggar on the street? i don't care if he can play guitar, he's not a real artist if he has to market himself in such a sneaky way.

>>50124295
this is a good example of what i'm talking about.

>>50124309
I don't really expect people to pay for my music because a rarely will pay for a bands music on bandcamp when i dont have to. I turned on the option to pay mainly because I was running low on free downloads for the month, and because of the way the bandcamp mobile app works, i thought it would be good to give the option to give a dollar, but even then I most likely won't actually use any of the money i get here, because I've made a total of $3 through bandcamp, and I am completely satisfied with that

>>50124344
that is literally 3 dollars more than you deserve if you're not on a label

>>50123976
yo gotta make more stuff bro. it's been almost a year and you've got one song

>>50124351
why?

>>50124295
hey man do a kickflip is catchier than aids

>>50124309

i really don't know what you're on about. first of all, yeah i do give money to people on the street when i can spare the money. second, a donation is just that - a donation. you're reading way too much into that tiny little distinction between "free" and "pay if you want to"

i don't expect to make a single cent off bandcamp. my band isn't attached to any major label, everything is self-produced, and we don't give the slightest shit if you want to give us money or not. if we "expected" you to buy it, we'd have put a price on it. it's as simple as that.

i don't know what kind of passive-aggressive society you come from but generally where i'm from if i want something i will be forward about it. optional donation means just that - pay what you want. if you don't want to pay anything, go for it. more important to me that someone enjoys the music than if they decided to toss me a quarter of like five bucks or whatever they felt like paying. i have a day job

getting off my soapbox now

I bought their cassette and it was pretty good but was bummed that there as no download code but luckily its a name your price on here so fuck yeah

Nudity Heavy Petting
http://omgnudity.com/album/heavy-petting

its like a Sleigh Bells + Yeah Yeah Yeah + Beach House baby

>>50124369
i won't get into it since i'm tired but you're making a product with no effort and are essentially scamming free money from people, so you come into these threads and market your bandcamp without any feedback just so you can earn money. that's what's "fucked up", friendo.

>>50124382
you're confusing a donation with a pay what you want model. you're still expected to pay.

>>50124389
>their

sure m8

>>50124111
i'm not mad but i'm here forever

>>50124420
I totally understand why u doubt me

>>50124420

i don't understand what i'm confused about. i think you actually might be confused if you've never tried to actually donate to an artist on bandcamp before since it is 100% possible to just enter a big fat zero and download the album

>>50124420
If you're trolling, you're doing a good job

>>50124446
falls for b8

>>50124309
>music should be discovered organically
am i supposed to put up my bandcamp and do nothing with it? post it nowhere? i'm not trying to "viral" my music, i'm trying to get it heard by at least some people, and i've even made friends through posting my music on /mu/. i think it was jonny greenwood who said that a musician is fooling themselves if they think they don't want people to hear their music. of course i want people to hear it, that doesn't make every time i post my music in a delegated thread for such activity "viralling".

also, the reason why my music is name your own price is because it's nice to make money off of music but wholly unnecessary to me. i've made a little over $100 on downloads and that's cool and all but it's obviously not a living. i'm not trying to be sneaky, i'm giving people an option to pay or get it for free, to do what they will with my art.

>not a real artist
how does a real artist get their art out there, then?

what bc threads used to be:
>everyone posts music
>everyone gets free music
>meaningful feedback encouraged but not mandatory

what bc threads are now:
>everyone's fucking angry
>everyone's accusing everyone else of viral marketing
>everyone's demanding people write mini p4k reviews of their vaporwave noise drone shit

gg mu you killed another good thing

>>50124469
Most accurate thing I've read on mu

>>50124447
yeah i really dont think most of these bands actually are trying to make money. Unless if they have it set up so you have to give your email if you want the album for free, your most likely not expecting any money

https://simplem.bandcamp.com/album/projection-centre
>ambient, mallsoft, experimental
The last album i made i posted on here was a while ago i made. i took the feedback it got into consideration and with this new album i put a lot more effort towards it. some of the compositions on it are made by me, while some are using samples reworked, chopped, and edited by me. i would appreciate legitimate feedback on my new album, to put towards another project i have in store for the future. thanks, and i hope you enjoy it.
-simple

>>50124450
agreed, i fell for that b8 hard it appears. i'm gonna slide back into my daw and keep mixing now

>>50124469
not op but
edit:
what /mu/ is now:
>everyone's fucking angry
>everyone's accusing everyone else of viral marketing
>everyone's demanding people write mini p4k reviews of their vaporwave noise drone shit

>>50124493
really diggin the piano stuff in the second track, I think I'll download

reminds me a lot of carnival music in places

>>50124446
i don't care. everyone needs to stay on their toes. everyone is a marketer until proven innocent. you can't ever be too careful.

>>50124447
you're being obtuse, deliberately. i'll spell it out for you:

whether or not someone pays is irrelevent. once you click "play", you've fallen for marketing. you've grabbed the b8, especially if they're an artist who just posted their album in the thread without giving feedback for at least 5 or 6 other anons. they're drawing attention to themselves and you've now fed them. you think you're supporting an artist but you're literally just keeping a corrupt system afloat.

>>50124450
>>50124494
sure, whatever helps you sleep at night.

>>50124465
>am i supposed to put up my bandcamp and do nothing with it? post it nowhere?
well, for starters, it would prove that you're not posting in a bandcamp thread out of greed.

>how does a real artist get their art out there, then?
send it to a label. it worked for decades until viral bandcamp threads came along.

>>50124469
>>50124489
>>50124506
again, these are exactly the types of things viral marketers will say in order to sway public opinion on their side.

>>50124493
>mallsoft
damn its been a while since I seen that. That being said, i dig it. I Got a soft spot in my heart for mallsoft.

>>50124554
Either way, itd be cool to see some discussion on Nudity, its neat free music that I bought the cassette on a whim (because it does look pretty cool with the gold stuff) and it was a good time, and I wanna share that with you in a non viral marketing way?

everyone who posts a link in this thread is a marketer, but so what that's the whole point of these threads.
for artist to share their stuff and find new musicians to like and support (but it doesn't work unless you reciprocate)

>>50124608
meaning that even someone who likes a band they stumbled upon and wants others to hear, thats marketing. its not really an evil thing like that one guy makes it sound but like, a pretty cool thing. damn that sounds like a viral marketing type thing to say. im not a cop

Jack of Hearts from Ballistic Squeeze reporting in.
Four might listen to music but she can't use bandcamp.
>>50124111
>>50124078
>>50123798
Listen, if you were just starting out, and/or had a system (like most of the electronic artists here) that didn't translate well into live settings, you'd want to put music everywhere you could as well.
If you call that viral marketing, then I'm just about as proud to be a viral marketeer as I am to be a musician.

I normally don't comment on other people's stuff. I'm a pretty critical person, which can offend people, and I'm usually not a huge fan of experimental or electronic music. Not to mention that when I started posting, I commented on as many people's stuff as I could, which usually ended up with too few responses to the work I put into listening and giving a short review of their work, not to mention I either commented or didn't on everyone who I was going to comment on. Would've just gotten repetitious and I'm not a huge fan of linking people and saying "reccing this" (tried it a couple times, but felt too penny hearted)

>>50122609
This feels a little to comfortable to be experimental. Occasionally something will feel to loud/out of place (the "chshaa" on shard, for example), but other than that, some nice mostly chill tracks.

>>50123012
Ed's voice is a little unrefined for me. It might be a good idea to practice and expand range, and stay at least slightly more in that range. Alize's doesn't fit the aesthetic, unfortunately (she has a great voice, but it doesn't fit. I could be wrong, but Four says closing the throat a little and putting more power into things. Like the opposite of Amy Lee). Beyond that, they're fun songs, and quite catchy.
Also, you have two vocalists. Why would you not harmonize or dual line? If the two of them (you/whatever) changed tone to fit each other, you could totally do that.

>>50124554
this is a place for music lovers and makers, half of us could care less about getting big. the whole point of these threads is to share your creation with people to better your work. most of us make music as a hobby, and thats where your in the wrong for calling everyone a viral marketer.

>>50124554
yeah except 99% of labels won't care what you're band sounds like unless if you've created some following of your own

>>50124554
>send it to a label.
Labels are only good for physical distribution now a days. If someone would join a indie label now they would just post it on the labels bandcamp. You don't need labels to book shows either. I'm friends with the band Dangers who are big in the local LA hardcore scene and they book all their international shows themselves through friends they've met online. Why not just cut out the Label Middle man (unless you want physical distribution)?

https://joelosteengrinder.bandcamp.com/album/children-ov-osteen

>joel osteen themed experimental noise grind

crafted over a period of seven months our greatest work to date

>>50124554

>whether or not someone pays is irrelevent. once you click "play", you've fallen for marketing. you've grabbed the b8, especially if they're an artist who just posted their album in the thread without giving feedback for at least 5 or 6 other anons. they're drawing attention to themselves and you've now fed them. you think you're supporting an artist but you're literally just keeping a corrupt system afloat.

i can't believe i got sucked into a troll for as long as i did

>>50124554
you're probably just a viral marketer who wants to create a discussion to bump the thread

I might try to respond to things later, but I'm actually busy right now. I'm sorry if I didn't get to you. Also I ran out of space and had to split this into two posts.
In the meantime, this is a draft of the cover of our upcoming EP, Symptoms, which we hope to release. We were very fortunate the get it commissioned for free (the artist normally works for $10 an hour plus $10 for the materials, I believe. Nepotism is great.)

>>50123468
To be totally honest, I've only listened to about half of Slipping Apart. Doesn't have a ton of direction, but for some reason that I don't know if I can explain, it's endearing and enjoyable.

>>50123784
Suffers from the same issue as a lot of bedroom dream pop. The vocals feel a little lazy/unenthusiastic. That might be the aesthetic, and I just don't appreciate it, but that's how I feel about it.

>>50123837
I was about the comment on the production, and then I read the description. I like this album a lot actually, and if the production was a closer to your normal this would be really nice.
Oops. I still commented on production.

>>50123930
I like this.
I wish I could make a better comment, but that's really all I've got.

>>50124360
Fun fact: Ballistic Squeeze in it's current iteration was formed in September or October of last year. So we're actually right at the year mark.
We're putting the (hopefully) final touches on a song, and trying to record the piano of the rest. Unfortunately, the songs require a bit of improvisation and I'm not actually great at piano.

>>50124039
Thank you!

>>50124629
Found you.
Aren't you the Jack or spades? Or did you change that without telling me?

>>50123012
>>50124629
(Four here)
Actually open the throat(like you're yawling or giving a blowjob) but put more support into the diaphragm area.
Basically make the tensing motion of if you were going to scream but sing instead.
Best I can describe what Jack wanted me to describe.

frozenzoo.bandcamp.com

>post rock emo

>>50124659
This sounds awful. I love it.

>>50124629
I just felt like that i could call a few people out because by the time they got to thread there had to be at least one thing that someone might partially enjoy

you've doen it you bastards really killed this fucking BC thread

>>50124360
The other member here
yeah we suck
we have stuff but we're just terrible at recording.
We're always changing our songs or deciding we want to change the songs on the album.
It's going to be terrible if one of us dies without having songs recorded.

>>50124039
A thank you from the other member too!

www.jtrux.bandcamp.com

i make music. idk listen.

>>50124714
fuck off, you're probabky the biggst offender to viral marketing.

>>50124725
just record the songs how they are now, and continue to change them however you want. For almost any good musician, a studio recording of a song is just a snapshot of what a song looks like at a certain moment in the life of that song

>>50124714
stop viral marketing your memes all over the place

>>50124727

pretty sick. probably not my place but i'm not a huge fan of the piano sample in song #2, it and the repeating wub line sound way too dry. that might have been what you were going for but to me it sounds more sophomore than artistic

i dig your vibe overall though

>>50124685
>The vocals feel a little lazy/unenthusiastic
thanks for the critique. the aesthetic that i was going for was soft vocals, but i can see how it can come of as lazy. I'm also not the best singer so I try to put little inflection as possible. also:
>bedroom dream pop
was the production bad where it felt like it was recorded in a bedroom? Any tips on improving my production?

>>50124737
I
I actually needed that.
Thank you.
Let me go yell at the pianist.

>>50123976
Dude
what that guy said that I just replied to.
Can we make final adjustments to that one song thing and make a schedule of recording business?
Wait why am I talking to you here.
Whatever.

>>50124757

addendum: i think spending more time developing\acquiring better samples would do so much for this. i really like your vision but the drum sounds in particular sound dropped straight out of garage band

>>50124693
I FUCKED UP
SHIT
I don't remember what I am. Yours is memorable. Mine isn't. I'm sorry.
Thanks though.
I was guessing from my lack of experience and what you told me. *shrug*

>>50124718
Fair enough. I gave my reasoning for (normally) not reviewing, and I'm sticking to it.

>>50124469
Actually true.
Another reason I'm less likely to give feedback now.

>>50124554
I don't post my bandcamp because I want money. I post my bandcamp because I want to make music, and I want people to hear that music. Money just means I can spend more money making my music less bad.
Does this mean I'm greedy?
Feedback isn't what makes someone b8/not b8.

>>50124772
When I say bedroom dream pop, I guess I mean that the vocals tend to be inaudible where I've heard way more audible vocals in more well known dream pop things. It's like shoegaze vocals with dream pop aesthetic, I think. I associate it with other bedroom dream pop I've heard.
Trust me, practicing your singing ability (or getting a singer if you REALLY don't think you can get it down yourself) is incredibly helpful. Also research on becoming a better singer.

>>50124790
I made the comment earlier, but
"Unfortunately, the songs require a bit of improvisation and I'm not actually great at piano."
And Coma is too short to... I'm just going to talk to you on facebook.

captcha: tickle monster

>>50124874
oh ok. The vocals on my first track is definitely the most "in the mix" or inaudible. Some of my other songs have more audible vocals. Like this one for example:
https://lovedbystars.bandcamp.com/track/gilded-age
would love critique on the vocals for this track.

It's me again

https://churchchill.bandcamp.com/

New song. Full album will be done around January.

great thread, not even being sarcastic

>>50124952
Yup. That one sounds nicer (to me, anyway). I will add, however: Post lyrics to your songs. It's immensely helpful.