10 Albums To Check Out This Bandcamp Friday; October 2024 Edition
From one of the best dubstep albums of all time to an unmissable ambient compilation from Janushoved, there's a wealth of outstanding music to check out this Bandcamp Friday!
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How has it been a month already? Maybe we got lost in that lost batch of bangers released last Bandcamp Friday? However it happened, here we are again, Christmas for audiophiles that just so happens to happen once a month. As usual, Bandcamp Friday does not disappoint, as you'll hear if you dig through these 10 albums we've cherrypicked for this roundup.
Perhaps most noteworthy is Benga's seminal dubstep LP Diary Of An Afro Warrior making its way onto the platform. An incredibly, scoping ambient compilation in honor of Janushoved's 10 Anniversary should be just as much of a cause for jubilation, however. Plus, there's a killer Double A side of EBM-tinted techno from U, some spooky sounds for spooky season, meditative modular synth from Cate Brooks on Cafe Kaput, and even some proto-klezmer excavated by Baltimore's Canary Records. Without further ado, on with the show!
10 Albums To Check Out This Bandcamp Friday; October 2024
Benga - Diary of an Afro Warrior
OG dubstep record from one of the best makes its way onto Bandcamp in time for Bandcamp Friday. Benga's Diary of an Afro Warrior reminds us how much originality was capable in the first wave of dubstep before it all got taken over by Monster-swilling Skrillex step. Sounds just as fresh and even more thrilling all these years later!
Cate Brooks - Ellipsis
Gloomy, sepulchral modular synthesis summoned from Cate Brooks' Buchla 200e
Faraway Ghost & Sunken Cages - Ashk Haye Moghavemat
Warm, spellbinding vocals over hypnotic Persian beats, like a haunting in a pomegranate glade. From the always fascinating French label Akuphone.
The Night Monitor - The Black Monk of Pontrefact
Eerie, haunting analog electronics from the always-essential The Night Monitor
Repeated Viewing - Strip Their Flesh/The Artefact
Final cassette copies of Repeated Viewing's mondo double feature, Strip Their Flesh and The Artfact are available from Spun Out Of Control.
Richard Skelton - The Old Thawing Crux
Two gorgeous, essential albums of delicate, ghostly drone from arch-folklorist Richard Skelton get a mandatory physical re-release from Scotland’s Aeolian Records.
The Sea of Wires - The Sea of Wires
Bleepy, bleary-eyed lofi analog electronics from early coldwave kosmische wizards The Sea of Wires. Perfect music for holding a seance in a bunker.
U - Full Moon/Black Hole
Jittery, rigid EBM-tinged techno for the fascinating Lex Records. Like plunging through a wormhole to discover a lost world of alien civilizations and birds with crystal plumage.
Various Artists - Our Star Is A Fleeting Image
Gentle, ethereal, sprawling ambient compilation from the beautifully eclectic Janushoved, in honor of their 10th Anniversary. Also available as a limited edition triple cassette.
Various Artists - Shifra Dances: Yiddish American Clarinet Instrumentals from 78rpm Discs, ca. 1927-48
Baltimore's Canary Records are damn talented at excavating sound worlds you didn't even know existed. On their latest collection, they've turned their expert archival attention on instrumental Yiddish clarinet music from the late '20s to the late '40s, forging a fascinating link between old-school dixieland, Big Band jazz, and klezmer that is deliciously addictive and criminally underheard. Canary Records are setting the record straight, as usual.
This post originally appeared on Micro Genre Music.
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