Bandcamp for labels5/15/2023 That sense of unadulterated human-to-human interplay makes Bandcamp catnip not only for musicians but also for labels. How else does he plan to continue leveraging the site? “I definitely want to work the power I built and share that with the younger community coming up,” he says, “the young collaborators I’m working with now and in the future.” And when the music comes out, the fun has only just begun Cary then beatmaps the results and releases remixes when he pleases, which most labels will not bankroll. On Bandcamp, those sorts of expectations aren’t an issue. “I’ve always had problems with labels because they’re like, ‘We want you to do another record like you just did.’ I’m not doing that again that shit is done.” “Generally speaking, a label has a direction they sign you for-you’re not going to be doing a whole bunch of different stuff just because that’s what you’re into,” he says. “And I put it out as my first outing on Bandcamp, seven years ago.” Free of any external entity’s curatorial requirements, Cary has thrived on Bandcamp ever since. “Basically, I took it from them,” Cary says. The breaking point came, he says, when a label refused to put out an album that Cary had recorded with his group Indigenous People, featuring bassist Tarus Mateen and multi-instrumentalist Yarborough Charles Laws.
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