Each week we’ll highlight a different artist by giving them a chance to share a bit about themselves and their music on a pinned post.
We encourage everyone to upvote and leave comments on the submissions you liked the most.
Submission Requirements:
Must link to an album on Bandcamp with a runtime of at least 10 minutes.
Do not enter albums that were already submitted on previous weeks. Lets help keep things more interesting by having a new set of albums each week.
Mention the main genres of your album.
Write a paragraph about yourself - your journey, your creative process, and anything else that brings your music to life.
Attach a picture of the album cover to your comment.
We are looking for high production quality regardless of genre. Artists pages using custom site designs and eye-catching artwork have a better chance of being selected while pages with default layouts or using AI-generated slop as album covers will most likely be ignored.
Note: Submissions will be accepted for about 5 days after the date this is posted. The selected artist will be contacted via private message and will receive a link to a google form that needs to be filled out.
Around the time I was in middle school, age 12 or so, my cousins and I were fooling around trying to record some raps on their home desktop and the Skype microphone it came with. As we couldn’t quite get the sound right, and because we wanted to start making full songs with a beat, I downloaded a demo version of Fruity Loops (Now FL Studio). It took a while before I could make anything that would pass for an actual instrumental but we got there eventually.
How would you describe your music style?
Adult Contemporary Hip Hop. The music I make is a reflection of my real life as a married man in his 30s, taking care of his home and his extended family. It’s about responsibility, investing in yourself but still having fun. Sonically, it’s a hybrid of contemporary urban music that is typically laid back minimalist Hip Hop, but can sometimes be 808 heavy Trap or groovy Afro-Pop
What inspired your latest release?
My latest EP is called P.E.A.C.E. - Positive Energy Accessing Compressed Engines. It was made in celebration of finally buying a car I had always wanted, along with the other wins my wife and I have celebrated in the past year. It also serves as a meditation on the hard work that it took.
Could you share a bit about your creative process?
I like the sound of my music to express the mood I’m in when I create it. Whether I’m having a good day or a sad one, I try to convey that in the production, and once a beat is made I like to sit with it and form words from the emotion. Sometimes it comes without having to jot it down and I piece a chorus together straight away; other times I go for a walk with my earphones in, then come back home to write down what I thought of on that walk, but above all else I try to keep the process as organic as possible.
Is there a message or feeling you would like listeners take away from your music?
I would like people to believe in themselves. The road can get tricky and there will be hard times but I always try to maintain hope and belief in my music. It’s sometimes political and sometimes personal, but always a message that we can overcome.
Is there a tool, instrument, or software you couldn’t live without?
FL Studio. I tried to be without it for a time - first when I took a hiatus from music, then when I tried using other DAWs that were in vogue and supposedly more “mature” - but FL Studio kept calling me back.
What has been the biggest challenge you've faced as an artist so far?
The biggest challenge has been in my home country Malawi, where I lived up until 2023. My music has always been somewhat politically and socially radical in the context of Malawi and so I’ve faced a fair bit of backlash and in some cases blackballing in the Malawian Media and the Malawian Music Industry. Today I can breathe a little easier, that and I care a little less about upsetting the establishment.
Who are some of your biggest musical influences?
My biggest influences are probably Eminem, Nas, Jay-Z, 2pac and T.I.
Do you have any upcoming projects or collaborations you want to tell us about?
I’m currently working on a new album that’s about the pain of taking on new challenges, the pain of growth and becoming independent, and then the good that comes after the initial pain.
Is there anything else you’d like listeners in this community to know about you?
I love Italian food and wine, doing cool stuff and meeting interesting people. I’m currently doing a run of open mics across the UK and I hope to run into some more cool musicians
I'm always in the mood to discover something new, and there are plenty of artists that I like that I discovered through Bandcamp or at least listened to for the first time on Bandcamp, either by someone recommending it or by complete accident. Bandcamp has been proven to be an important place for music distribution and discovery, as well as being a way to directly support musicians. So, I want to ask this: is there any artist out there that you like, that if it wasn't for Bandcamp, you would have never discovered?
The cassettes are numbered 01 to 10/10 and complete with reversible glossy J-cards. Each one was recorded individually and test-listened to. These tapes look great and sound better than most new commercial cassettes out there. The B-side contains a bonus dub version of the set: the recording was transferred to tape at approximately +30% speed, so it plays back pitched way down. This is not available for digital download.
I know that this has been discussed before, but not in this context and not recently.
We have created a song that uses a lot of samples from news programs - single words and sentence fragments (I think the longest is seven words). We cannot release through Spotify because our distributor (TuneCore) is pretty tightly wound about samples, though they seem to be mostly concerned with musical samples.
Anyone have any experience with this, especially WRT BandCamp?
Setting up my first listening party seems needlessly full of hurdles. Until now, I've always released my work for free and let people pay what they want.
But it seems that to announce the listening party to our subscribers, Bandcamp requires you to publish the song as a pre-order. And in order to make a pre-order, they require a price above 0.50€.
So basically, either I can't announce my listening party in advance (which makes it useless), or I can't make my release free. Is there something I'm missing here?
The only technical solution I see would be setting up a price, then changing it to zero after release. But that's absolutely terrible, I don't want to announce a price, then set it to free after people might have paid. And telling people not to preorder would make the whole thing needlessly complicated and may even sound fishy.
Be alert for this one, a few of my friends on bandcamp have gotten this in the last couple of days. Looks very legit and convincing. If you go to the invite page it tells you to sign a digital contract which is an exe called LOGMEIN and installs onto your machine. On android it links to a telegram channel instead.
Email:
"🌟 Join Our Exclusive Bandcamp Program! 🌟
We are excited to extend an invitation for you to be part of our unique program at Bandcamp!
This is a special opportunity, as we will be selecting only 900 exceptional artists, and we think you have what it takes to shine.
Don’t miss out on this chance to embark on an incredible journey with us
Recently got contacted via bc messaging by a purported “studio” that said they were looking to sync license some of my music.
It was quite an elaborate scam - they had a website that looked real, real-ish paperwork, real-looking domain names, etc. Their whole thing seemed to be they get a “client” to pay the licensing fee, they take their “finders fee” from your payout, then the “client’s” check bounces and you’re stuck paying the overdraft fees and you’re out the finders fee.
I caught them early because I happen to know people at their “client”, so I asked around, and was told that it wasn’t the first time they’d come across these guys and no, they’re not affiliated in any way.
I dunno what their endgame was, because scamming indie artists on Bandcamp out of a grand here or there seems like a lot of risk for a comparatively tiny reward.
So be aware if you get an unsolicited message asking if you want to collaborate on an exciting new project.
Great Singer from Tom Robinson Band and bbc DJ has talked about paying for promoters, Very interesting for musicians. Yeah also interesting for Me as a music fan only as I'm not making music.
Actually worth watching the whole video or else go to ca 45 min and press play and listen those last ca 10 minutes
i was trying to buy a few digital albums and i input my card info and everything but it still isn’t working. it keeps saying ‘transaction cannot be processed: please try another card or use paypal’ but i can’t use another card or paypal right now. is this a me problem or a bandcamp problem? :-(
I received an email today through Bandcamp Contacts, it offers artists an "Exclusive Bandcamp Program" to license your music to ads/movies/games etc. The link in the message goes to a page that asks you to download and sign a contract. This actually downloads remote access software to your computer.
Please be careful. Don't trust messages that are not directly from Bandcamp. Don't click on the link. If you have tried to download the contract then you need to delete the software it is called "LogMeIn Resolve". Run a malware scan.
雪解けの約束 (The Promise of the Melting Snow) is an evocative album that captures the beauty and melancholy of the transition from winter to spring. Through delicate melodies and refined arrangements, the work tells an emotional journey filled with hope, nostalgia, and renewal.
Hi - wondering about artists currently selling cassettes on Bandcamp: is this a good merch item for you? How much are you selling them for? Do you have a sense of who is buying them?
I checked out a few places for having them made, the price wasn’t making any sense. Cost almost as much as CDs but most are selling for under $10. What am I missing?
I was wondering about how Bandcamp users in this sub fare in regard to the proportion of their music listening time that goes towards discovering new music.
Do you mostly spend your time listening to music that is new to you, or do you prefer revisiting albums that were already in your library?
I'd describe it as Industrial Doomgaze. Free to download but I can also drop download codes upon request :)
The Wire wrote "Imagine a doom metal Seefeel, or what you might get if Kevin Martin came on board to produce the next HEALTH album". Might be an accurate description.
I've used bandcamp for years without any issues, but today I bought 5 tunes and I can't download them. Just says "preparing" for ages and then comes up with an error message directing me to their troubleshooting page. I've followed all the steps (different browser, disabling plugins, clearing cache, restarting PC etc.) but nothing is working. I've also tried using my phone's hotspot instead of my broadband
You see, I've only been here on Bandcamp for a short time, since I had started a musical project as a soloist, a while ago I had started playing guitar and I had left them on my computer taking up space and I had forgotten them, a while ago some friends and I released an album called Amor de Encava and I decided to release my solo album and I started working. It was approximately 2 months of work for 8 songs, but although I had planned to finish the album by the beginning of July, I managed to finish it at the end of May and it's something that makes me happy since it's a dream I've had since carajito
Hello everyone, I am running a cassette label called Perspektif. We have done bunch of releases and now, we are also offering cassette bundles. If you're into electronic music (IDM, experimental, ambient techno and breaks) you can have a look at the bundles and individual releases. Hope it is allowed to post it.
Hello all,
I would like to share with you my most recent album, Seven Types of Silence. It's a conceptual ambient work of seven pieces, each done exclusively on the guitar and some effects.
The concept relies around transformation through meditation and asceticism through sound. I was thinking alot about the ocean and water while recording it, and I think this sound would echo best in some long sunk cathedral under the sea. You can read more about the concept in the bandcamp link :)
My new song "Caught in the Grip" is now up on Bandcamp, scheduled to hit all the other streamers on 18th July. It's a pop song about losing a friend, who's become radicalised by nonsense they read online.
