28 Albums From My Bandcamp Collection

Selections from my Bandcamp purchases over the years.

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In recent months I’ve shared some album lists based on my Twitter threads that people seem to enjoy. Those lists include:

• 30 Albums From 1974

• 28 Albums From 1984

• 32 Jazz, Fusion, and Jazz Adjacent Records from 1977

• 30 Jazz and Jazz Adjacent Albums You Might Have Missed

• 32 '80s Funk and Funk Adjacent Albums

Today I wanted to share 28 albums from my Bandcamp collection.

Since its founding in 2007, Bandcamp has often been seen as an artist-friendly platform that blends digital ownership, physical merchandise sales, and streaming.

Listeners can purchase both digital and physical (when available) copies of albums from their favorite artists. Artists keep a higher percentage of sales than they do via any streaming service and can also sell other physical merchandise in addition to cassettes, tapes, and vinyl.

Though the company’s reputation has been stellar for much of its existence, that seems to be changing. A sale to Epic Games in 2022 followed by a sale to Songtradr in 2023 was followed by a gutting of both Bandcamp employees and the site’s Bandcamp Daily digital publication staff. Layoffs by Songtradr CEO Paul Wiltshire especially targeted members of the union bargaining team.

I am very troubled by these recent developments and I honestly don’t know what the future holds for Bandcamp. Despite its continued profitability before the Epic Games and Songtradr takeovers, the greed of tech seems to destroy everything good or noble with time. I hope that isn’t the case with Bandcamp.

Despite concerns shared by many artists and fans of the platform, it is still one of the most artist-friendly places to distribute music in terms of revenue share. So with that being said, I’ve compiled 28 albums from my collection of 331 albums, EPs, and singles.

There’s a lot to choose from here - electronic/experimental, R & B, rap, a blog-era classic, a video game score, and a healthy dose of instrumental hip-hop. I’ve pulled certain albums out to highlight them and each hyperlink will take you to the Bandcamp page for that album.

Enjoy, and please let me know what you think of my picks in the comments.

1. Sang Stasia! by Stas Thee Boss (2020)

2. Streets of Rage (Remastered) by Yuzo Koshiro (1991/2020)

3. Stillness In Wonderland (Deluxe Edition) by Little Simz (2017)

4. Vault Series #3: Score​-​One Mixtape Skeletals by DJ Harrison (2013)

5. The ONE​.​.​.​COHESIVE by G-Side (2011)

6. Re​-​Birth by OBUXUM (2019)

7. Abstractions by Zo! & Tall Black Guy (2021)

8. These Roots Are On Fire EP by Kilamanzego (2020)

9. Flight of the Wig by Psalm One (2019)

10. Howitsnd by Sndtrak (2018)

11. L​ú​il Ó Fadó by mejiwahn (2018)

12. ‘73 by ewonee . (2018)

13. Kauliflowr by Knxwledge. (2013)

14. Nickel & Dimed by 14KT (2013)

15. Trophies by Apollo Brown & OC (2012)

16. VWETO II by Georgia Anne Muldrow (2019)

17. Forever In Love EP by Aleighcia Scott (2018)

18. They Think We Ghetto by Quadry (2021)

19. Dream Child by Omari Jazz (2020)

20. I Didn't Ask For This by Illingsworth (2016)

21. Pastimes, Vol. 4 by AJ Rios (2018)

22. The Gift: Volume Two by DertBeats (2015)

23. Butter Trilogy Pt​.​2 by Leem Lizzy (2019)

24. Bess by Pursuit Grooves (2019)

25. :​:​hoopdreams​:​: by 10.4 ROG and Liv.e (2018)

26. Edibles by Count Bass D (2019)

27. On a Diff [type] Level. by Jay Alpha (2017)

28. Rock Creek Park by Oddisee (2011)

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