RIPPED & DUBBED mixtape #4
For the first new mix of 2021, RIPPED & DUBBED presents two hours of pangenre underground music sourced entirely from Bandcamp digital exclusives. Bandcamp's role as the 21st century's most teeming distro hub of private press music is explored, with many releases showcased here available for free download on the platform. While many of these artists' more "official" album releases rightfully gained recognition and praise in 2020, I find the ephemeral fringes of their work to be just as (or more!) interesting and insightful, as a mirror into the freeflowing creative current that runs directly from the musician to the listener in a digital instant - particularly in a year when physical media production, shipping, and supply chain disruptions made official physical releases more daunting and difficult to get into record shops and on fans' hi-fis. There was no trend in music more ubiquitous in 2020 than a turn toward DIY (necessary given the circumstances), and that ethos thrived most amongst the back pages of Bandcamp.
1. Tuluum Shimmering - "Black Satin" [self-released]
2. Bounaly - "Takamba" from Music from Saharan WhatsApp 10 [Sahel Sounds]
3. Matthew J. Rolin - "What Comes Next?" [self-released]
4. James Ferraro - "II." from Neurogeist [self-released]
5. Nailah Hunter - "Nacre Meadow" [self-released]
6. Inner Travels - "Panorama (Part II)" from Panorama Set [self-released]
7. kafari - "radiant frequency" excerpt from radiant frequency ep [self-released]
8. Aaron Snow - "Outward" from Music for Golfing [Surf Shop Downloads & Tapes]
9. Mary Lattimore - "A Unicorn Catches A Falling Star In Heaven" excerpt [self-released]
10. cloudsound - "nebulan cloud" from Air is Sky; digital bonus album exclusive included with Tempus of Diminution cassette [Geology Records]
11. Garcia Peoples - "Shade at Horler's" excerpt from Tomato Sessions [self-released]
12. Dave Heumann - "Whose Streets" from Peregrine Themes [self-released]
13. Tonstartssbandht - "Olde Feelings" [self-released]
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