Whilst I am sure there are good reasons for the change, in the wider context of what is happening to London, this makes me very sad. See also plans to turn the amazing living history of Liverpool Street station’s roof into (another) fucking shopping centre.
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at least theyre not still trying to knock whole thing down ( or are they still)
(as its What dont you get) & Piers mentioned Liverpool St Station
In the film of Tinker Tailor ( which I love ) the hotel Smiley holes up in is near Liverpool St but in the Le Carre novel its near Paddington
( Blood starting to boil)
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This era of bandcamp and soundcloud remixes of songs that have used AI tools to extract the acapella and you end up with this vocal that is ducking in volume in bits and is covered in weird glitchy artifacts like it was partially downloaded from 1999 limewire or something.
It reminds me of that period when everyone got ableton and was timestretching any vocal to 124bpm and you’d get these unintentionally warbling vocals on every diva vocal they used.
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Spleeter extraction probably, from mp3/ YouTube rips. It doesn’t sound great
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Really not feeling the new SoundCloud UI. Trying waaay to hard to ape the Spotify lay out
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Horrendous isn’t it.
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This keeps popping up on my
Feed. Gregg Wallace MBE on Instagram: "60 years old, 12 stone, less than 17% fat."
Haha, i started using bandcamp more and more about two years ago and my first thought when i started following (and unfollowing) people and looking through collections was that half of what’s on there are shitty edits and remixes. It would be a better platform if they just removed all those horrible (bootleg) edits.
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yeah there’s deffo some weirdness on there. I’ve got a bunch of weird noise ambient stuff in my collection it was made by people I know and just wanted to support them 
Those security questions on websites where you have to choose the pictures that contain an image of a crosswalk, for example. FFS! Impossible. Even Norris Mcwhirter couldn’t pass that Krypton factor malarkey.
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Haha I hate those things
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And I know that as I sit there staring at my computer screen, my face cramping from the effort of distinguishing one pixel of a crosswalk from a bird shite on the road, I’m pulling exactly the same face that I used to laugh at my old man for. And there it is again; time sticking it’s two fingers up at us. Or is it just a middle finger. I can’t quite make it out. 
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There’s a tonne of crummy edits, but I feel like overall you find such unique stuff on there as well. Plus, it’s so much easier to just keep track of labels you like if you make a bookmark of them all and then “open all” once in a while to see what they have been releasing.
I think the sheer laziness of some djs i hear that will just get the latest round of re edits/remixes of the same old classics does do that site a disservice, but then again a lot of djs struggled a bit after we all stopped going to record shops to find out about new music.
The air gap has been allowed to get too big now. i believe that a lot of the older generation of djs maybe wouldn’t even be open to being suggested something outside of their comfort zone in the same way they used to.
I only have a small list of other djs i could send a new release to, because i know that the others would either take offence at having something sent to them, or just don’t have the mental energy to click on another link, and then expend effort in engaging with yet more digital content. I completely understand and empathise with that, though i myself don’t feel that way.
Edit:
The “Bandcamp Musts” thread does prove that this site’s users are definitely still engaged in the more interesting end of things.
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Just press skip until you get the easy ones with an individual picture in each square.
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Edits in general are for lazy DJs and essentially boring 16 bar loops with the same old filters applied. Having said that, I’ve utilised plenty of edits over the past 20 years where appropriate. Like most things in music, there is some gold amongst the dreck if you invest the time to look.
Bandcamp is still an essential tool for me, especially when i want to listen to something I am thinking about buying on vinyl that isn’t just a 45 second snippet on a record store website.
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Yes, bandcamp is great, especially after i learned to navigate. I’m buying new stuff every week, both records and files. Rarely any from the bandcamp musts thread though.
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I’ve bought more stuff on Bandcamp than anything else the last 5 years or so.
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Well, that was upsetting! haha
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