Jonathan Dowland: Ye Gods
Via (I think) @mcc on the Fediverse, I
learned of GetMusic: a sort-of “clearing house”
for Free Bandcamp codes. I think the way it works is, some artists
release a limited set of download codes for their albums in order to
promote them, and GetMusic help them to keep track of that, and helps
listeners to discover them.
GetMusic mail me occasionally, and once they highlighted an album The Arcane &
Paranormal
Earth which
they described as “Post-Industrial in the vein of Coil and Nurse With Wound
with shades of Aphex Twin, Autechre and assorted film music.”
Well that description hooked me immediately but I missed out on the code.
However, I sampled the album on Bandcamp directly a few times as well as
a few of his others (Ye Gods is a side-project of Antoni Maiovvi, which
itself is a pen-name) and liked them very much. I picked up the full
collection of Ye Gods albums in one go for 30% off.
Here’s a stand-out track:
So I guess this service works! Although I didn’t actually get a free code
in this instance, it promoted the artist, introduced me to something I really
liked and drove a sale.
