Great music on Bandcamp from your home town

[killer b]

I search bandcamp for local stuff I might have missed from time to time, and it's always a worthwhile exercise - so much stuff coming out that most of it flies right under the radar... please do the same and post the good things you find in the thread.

To search for stuff released in your home town, type the name of the town into the search bar on Bandcamp - if anyone has tagged their release with it, then there'll be a link on the right hand side of the screen which says 'You may also want to check out music tagged with “preston.” (except it'll say croydon or york or whatever) - click on that link and you're away! NB most of it will probably be quite bad, but have a dig, there'll be some sweet gems there.

Edit: actually that doesn't seem to work that well - instead click on this link, and replace the final bit of the url with your town

Today I've got a couple of things for you - first, and album of alienated leftfield R&B from a guy called Rainy Miller:



and an EP (only one track so far, it's being released early next year) of post-punky shoegaze from a band called White Flowers:

 

[dessiato]

(Mk1 Golf GTi with small bumper. That's a favourite of mine)

Liked the site.

 

[killer b]

Liked the site.

have you not come across bandcamp before? it's brilliant - I probably buy (and find) 90% of the new music I listen to through it - mostly it's good for underground & emerging musicians, but there's loads of more established acts on there too.

 

[dessiato]

 

[killer b]

do you actually like this, or is it just the only thing you could find on there that mentions Grimsby?

The search thing doesn't seem to work properly for Grimsby, but here's all the bands tagged with it: Grimsby Music & Artists | Bandcamp

 

[killer b]

this from Grimsby is good - warm and soothing electronica

 

[dessiato]

do you actually like this, or is it just the only thing you could find on there that mentions Grimsby?

The search thing doesn't seem to work properly for Grimsby, but here's all the bands tagged with it: Grimsby Music & Artists | Bandcamp

It isn't my usual taste but it appealed. Probably because it's raining in Grimsby.

 

[Smokeandsteam]

Banger from Brum:

 

[killer b]

Banger from Brum:

nice. do you know these guys?

 

[Smokeandsteam]

nice. do you know these guys?

No. They are good though...

 

[May Kasahara]

Banger from Brum:

Really like this

Unfortunately putting in Blackheath just brings up loads of godawful Australian psytrance

 

[May Kasahara]

this from Grimsby is good - warm and soothing electronica

Really like this too. Grimberian electronica, who would have thought!

 

[JimW]

Stroud seemed mostly middling folkie stuff, nothing stand out from what I checked. Plus an electronica/poetry tribute to the pub I used to work in but tune sadly pants.

 

[killer b]

Really like this too. Grimberian electronica, who would have thought!

there are middle aged men in their spare rooms with modular synthesizers literally everywhere.

 

[killer b]

...even in Stroud

 

[killer b]

This from Stroud is nice as well

 

[May Kasahara]

there are middle aged men in their spare rooms with modular synthesizers literally everywhere.

Tell me about it, there's one in my living room right now

 

[killer b]

of course there is.

the second Stroud-based balding modular dude has even done an album with Hans-Joachim Roedelius

 

[JimW]

This from Stroud is nice as well

I ducked him as I think I might know his face. Bandcamp used to be blocked here so pleasantly surprised when the embeds here showed then main site opened.

 

[killer b]

I ducked him as I think I might know his face. Bandcamp used to be blocked here so pleasantly surprised when the embeds here showed then main site opened.

I had a dig around the Beijing experimental scene on BC a couple of years ago, there was quite a lot of stuff on there then so I guess it must've been unblocked a while...

 

[JimW]

I had a dig around the Beijing experimental scene on BC a couple of years ago, there was quite a lot of stuff on there then so I guess it must've been unblocked a while...

Shows how long it was since I was last down with any scene. Never thought to check here. Will do that tomorrow.

 

[AverageJoe]

Nothing comes up for where I live.... Except for a track written in 2010 by the Electronic Artiste Matthew Herbert.

Guess where I live. What the heck was he doing passing through my Manor when he was suddenly inspired I wonder...

 

[killer b]

Tonbridge I'm guessing?

there's loads of acts from tonbridge (I think my search instructions must not work for all towns)

Music and merch tagged tonbridge on Bandcamp

Shop for vinyl, cassettes, CDs, t-shirts, and other merch tagged tonbridge on Bandcamp.

bandcamp.com

 

[AverageJoe]

Heh. I was in bands with the guys from Code and still mates with a couple of them. Lee Willz is a bit of a twat, and all the others are the same guy. I've probably come across him in the past though.

Interesting find killer B

 

[killer b]

yeah I had a run through the tonbridge lineup and didn't find much to love tbf.

 

[AverageJoe]

You'll probably have better luck with Tunbridge Wells which is seven miles down the road. Slaves are from there, as are Ladybird (who's singer was in Slaves when they were a three piece).

 

[Puddy_Tat]

the catford slacks have a certain post-punk / new wave thing

 

[The39thStep]

Listed on Bandcamp but not released on there yet .Manchester's Sheep in Fog Collective

 

[Fez909]

Great thread KB!

I found this pretty out there album of experimental nonsense from Middlesbrough collective Let's Trim Our Hair In Accordance With The Socialist Lifestyle.

Fucked to Death by Noel Edmond's Psychic Dog is my favourite track so far

 

[mauvais]

Between this and my forthcoming thread, 'Great music on Bandcamp tagged with your mother's maiden name', I think we're on to something here.