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.
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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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I can never work out whether the edge of a motor bike wheel protruding into a square means that sqaure contains a motor bike
I’ve since been told that this is a way for companies to train their AI rather than an actual test so just whack random shit until it accepts I’m not a robot
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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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That really is a crime. Genuinely should be illegal. FFS
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Bet Paris H had that in her last ‘live’ set, fucking travesty.
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Yuck!
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When someone has released an lp or EP on Bandcamp, but there is only one reviewable track. Sometimes it’s the only platform for the release, and you have to buy the whole thing. I just don’t get it.
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It’s usually just a teaser before the actual release date i think?
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DJs who don’t consider where their gig is. Got asked to play the first three hours tonight at this vinyl bar that just opened in Boston. I did my thing that went over well be side who doesn’t love a bit of soul, disco and the yachtiest of rock when you’ve just finished work but at 9pm the other DJ showed up and decided that the best record to mix into the Hamilton Brothers was Avicci. Faded a 3 minute record out at about the 90 second mark to get his nonsense on. It went from a very busy bar to almost empty in 30 minutes. Read the room bro. Silver lining is that I think I’ve got a nice little earner as a monthly regular so not a bad nights work.
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The biggest tragedy here is not playing Avicci and clearing the floor, but someone actually sought out and purchased Avicci on vinyl.
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