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I’m not sure what the experience is with other niche genres of music but I’ve found more black and death metal on Bandcamp in the past month than has ever been
by jmuguy 3y ago
I’m not sure what the experience is with other niche genres of music but I’ve found more black and death metal on Bandcamp in the past month than has ever been recommended to me elsewhere. I get the impression that HN posters who don’t use Bandcamp just see it at some place where a band can make a MySpace profile - but it has a serious network effect going on.
For instance, the label 20 buck spin, has a boat load of artists on there. For metal, their profile page on Bandcamp is worth more than a 100 algorithmic playlists on Spotify.
https://20buckspin.bandcamp.com/ https://20buckspin.bandcamp.com/
I hope Bandcamp can survive this layoff. It is a real resource for music lovers and artists, not a glorified front end for flacs on S3.
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- lawgimenez 3y agoAs a listener of hardcore and punk since I was a teen, Bandcamp is the place to be. It is the only site where I can get music from my local scene too even though I don't go to shows anymore. I am grateful to Bandcamp, hope someone will acquire them that truly knows music business, etc.
- lethologica 3y agoThanks for that link! I’ve recently gotten into metal (Holy crap what an awesome genre of music I’ve neglected to explore my whole life! I feel like a kid in a candy shop hearing all of these new amazing sounds) and started learning guitar because of it. Having someone share their curated music is way more powerful in my opinion than some algorithmically generated playlist.
- proxiful-wash 3y agoI get the impression that people want evil tencent to succeed, but this really has no place in the free world. thanks for reading.
- AdmiralAsshat 3y agoNo Pentagram? Dang, I thought they'd have at least one album by the band that wrote the song for whom the label is named: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6V-EhW8xCk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6V-EhW8xCk
- NoGravitas 3y agoVirtual labels and niche genres are Bandcamp's bread and butter. No better place for dark jazz and dark ambient, good for synthwave and noise.