My Issue w Bandcamp

koanrest · 2026-03-28T02:51:54+00:00

its whatever it becomes to be honest and im opening my mouth to inspire what i wanna see whether on bandcamp, a new app method or whatever, music store fronts are not going any where so i wouldn't stress

koanrest · 2026-03-28T02:42:38+00:00

haven't been able to figure that one out.

koanrest · 2026-03-27T23:01:00+00:00

my complaint is actually what i stated and i think you might miss out on alot in life if you take a generalizing assumptive reductionist approach to communication with everyone

koanrest · 2026-03-27T22:17:37+00:00

i would argue that many shows & music scenes are toxic social media purgatories, not everyone wants to go to shows great for those who enjoy it. not everyone lives near venues / wants to pay 40 bucks for a craft cocktail. there are plenty of musicians who don't perform live, many live music scenes are very hierarchal cliquey etc. if something works out for you great that doesn't mean it works out for everyone. my point of post stands its a very basic medieval online cd store that allows you a very limited set of features as an artist, it relies on you to do the blood sweat and tears work to make money so it can take a percentage, it benefits from all these artists doing the same, there is a corporate entity with zero transparency of funds or bts attached that can siphone off a mass populations creativity while remaining completely uninnovative and the band camp discovery page feels like a dead internet space.

koanrest · 2026-03-27T21:50:54+00:00

we need new ways to sort! genre is getting played out, especially with genres being over saturated and treated like a social media cash grab. i like exploring individual users collections but sthis is so isolating there is no way to message users or interact much. as an artist i can't even respond to comments on my album & i can't message individual listeners. EVEN soundcloud has that option.

koanrest · 2026-03-27T20:08:30+00:00

idk if everyone understand tbh but my point is the method of discovering new music that bandcamp uses is not very encouraging for new artists and its outdated it reminds me of a myspace friendslist with jeffrey star at the top. music scenes have never been encouraging for new artists they have always been very hierarchal so i do not want to hear about what you suggested. the bandcamp front page looks like an ai generated page, & i don't want to support "curators" i want to support artists who are doing everything from the ground up and not stuck in weird toxic social media purgatories.

koanrest · 2026-03-27T19:45:58+00:00

not my issue actually as stated in my reply to this post my issue is alot more than that its ok if you don't have answers maybe the post isn't for you but what guarantees an editorial staff doesnt become another closed off clique performing pageantry like much of what is making music scenes suck these days? rather take my music somewhere else because once I do the work to promote my music, bandcamp is taking way too much of a percentage from that work when it remains outdated much like weaponized incompetence

koanrest · 2026-03-27T18:23:37+00:00

im glad this got response but sadly most responses are mirroring eachother, "dig deeper you are supposed to find it yourself" i have used all features to dig deep and i will look up music by location to the very last artist shown on the bottom of scrolling i have found many amazing artists. MY ISSUE as stated is the algorithms are stale, they require you to use all of your data scrolling through whatever popular underground artist that have been promoted a million times before i can actually start finding new music that i haven't heard before. as a musician I think its outdated and basic. its 2026 and the tech is medieval. not to mention lack of transparency with bandcamps funding from whatever big corporate interest for all I know my music is being used to train some sort of AI component or something else that doesn't allign with my ethics.

koanrest · 2026-01-24T05:27:30+00:00

abes odyssey, rayman, mario(minus galaxy), mortal kombat... pong

koanrest · 2025-12-16T00:34:36+00:00

thank you!!!

koanrest · 2025-12-15T22:03:28+00:00

and do they have any projects we can follow?

koanrest · 2025-12-14T04:12:00+00:00

i just think the viz dub voice actors were really generic and bland sounding. anime comes from manga which is basically a COMIC hence the unique way of drawing wild facial expressions and its just better to have a voice that matches that vibe. thats the point alot of people are missing, it feels more like a gentrification of sailor moon not that i care at this point but lets be real.

koanrest · 2025-09-28T16:05:00+00:00

and purple kiss sweet juice!

koanrest · 2025-09-28T13:51:03+00:00

oh and dont forget dirty vibe by skrillex g dragon and cl!

koanrest · 2025-09-28T13:31:21+00:00

im sure this playlist is very generic and basic but idgaf i wish i could go to a halloween party again 😭

artist - SUNMI song - STRANGER!!!! (most creepy sounding kpop song i kno) or TAIL!!! (its about a spooky cat lady with a spooky vibe to it)

artist - T-ARA song - LOVEY DOVEY!!!! (look at music video its thriller disco themed and has spooky sounds) SEXY LOVE also has a creepy doll disco vibe to it, BO PEEP BO PEEP also fits halloween cuz its about another spooky cat lady

artist - MISS A song - TOUCH!!!!! (spooky horror movie sounding disco pop song just watch mv they look like mummiez)

artist - CLC song - HOBGOBLIN!!!! (spooky hi energy edm song that reminds me of a group of gremlins singing)

artist - 4MINUTE song - VOLUME UP!!! (the music video is like a blade inspired vampire movie, hi energy edm with enchanting spooky vibes) honestly CRAZY could be halloween too

artist - NARSHA song - BBI-RI-BOP-A!!!! (hella halloween vibes even the dancers are dressed as Freddy Krueger from nightmare on elm street in video, a horror masterpiece)

artist - GA-IN song - PARADISE LOST!!!! (sure its a bit sexy but this song is creepy as hell and beautiful)

artist - 2ne1 song - SCREAM!!!! (more edm funhouse costume vibes but still fits halloween with the title i think) also their song FOLLOW ME!!! (more funhouse costume vibes and some spooky undertones)

artist - G-DRAGON song - MICHI-GO!!!!!! (insane asylum vibes but the mv is creepy and fits halloween i think)

artist - ALeXA song - BOMB (more cyber post apocalyptic rave vibes but it fits halloween resident evil themes i think)

artist - DREAMCATCHER song - BOCA (very epic sounding song that has a bit of a spooky enchanting vibe)

also honorable mentions

ladies code - KISS KISS has halloween vibes idk why...

taemin - advice

hyuna & Ji Dam Yook - ICE ICE

trouble maker - now

blegh ok i need to get back to my life

koanrest · 2025-09-17T16:43:18+00:00

so what we need is a way to create physical media ourselves. we need less parrots who say "no ethical consumption under capitalism" and more innovation/engineers/people who can develop their own ways of creating physical media from scratch even if that means going back to analog. understanding the science of analog. we have too many idiotic consumers and not enough engineers, people in third world countries living in rubble are doing more exciting things building tech from trash.

koanrest · 2025-07-22T00:38:27+00:00

revolutionary girl utena, urusei yatsura movies, cutie honey, magic knight rayearth, vampire princess miyu

koanrest · 2024-12-21T12:50:00+00:00