Bandcamp
Encyclopedia
Bandcamp is an online music store
, as well as a platform for artist promotion, that caters mainly for independent artists. Artists on Bandcamp have a customizable microsite
with the albums they upload. All tracks can be played for free on the website and some artists offer free music downloads. Bandcamp takes a 15% cut of sales made from their website (in addition to payment processing
fees), which drops to 10% after selling more than $5000 worth. Bandcamp is also free to join.
Bandcamp gained much attention in July 2010 when Amanda Palmer
, Low Places and Bedhed gave up their record labels and started selling albums on Bandcamp, using Twitter
for promotion.
Bandcamp saw a rise in popularity in 2011 when several Indie game
Developers, published their game soundtracks on Bandcamp, including Bastion
, Sanctum
, Machinarium
, Terraria
, Plants vs. Zombies
, Limbo
, Super Meat Boy
and Minecraft
.
Online music store
An online music store is an online business which sells audio files, usually music, on a per-song and/or subscription basis. It may be differentiated from music streaming services in that the music store offers the actual music file, while streaming services offer partial or full listening without...
, as well as a platform for artist promotion, that caters mainly for independent artists. Artists on Bandcamp have a customizable microsite
Microsite
A microsite is an Internet web design term referring to an individual web page or a small cluster of pages which are meant to function as a discreet entity within an existing website or to complement an offline activity...
with the albums they upload. All tracks can be played for free on the website and some artists offer free music downloads. Bandcamp takes a 15% cut of sales made from their website (in addition to payment processing
Payment processor
A payment processor is a company appointed by a merchant to handle credit card transactions for merchant banks. They are usually broken down into two types: front-end and back-end....
fees), which drops to 10% after selling more than $5000 worth. Bandcamp is also free to join.
Bandcamp gained much attention in July 2010 when Amanda Palmer
Amanda Palmer
Amanda MacKinnon Gaiman Palmer , sometimes known as Amanda Fucking Palmer, is an American performer who first rose to prominence as the lead singer, pianist, and lyricist/composer of the duo The Dresden Dolls...
, Low Places and Bedhed gave up their record labels and started selling albums on Bandcamp, using Twitter
Twitter
Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July...
for promotion.
Bandcamp saw a rise in popularity in 2011 when several Indie game
Indie game
Independent video game development is the process of creating video games without the financial support of a video game publisher. While large firms can create independent games, they are usually designed by an individual or a small team of as many as ten people, depending on the complexity of the...
Developers, published their game soundtracks on Bandcamp, including Bastion
Bastion (video game)
Bastion is an action role-playing video game produced by independent developer Supergiant Games and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. The game's visual style is inspired by anime and its narrative style takes the form of a dynamic voice-over...
, Sanctum
Sanctum (2011 video game)
Sanctum is a first-person shooter tower defense video game, developed by independent developer Coffee Stain Studios. It has been available for pre-purchase via Steam for Microsoft Windows since March 24, 2011.-Plot:...
, Machinarium
Machinarium
Machinarium is a puzzle point-and-click adventure game developed by Amanita Design. It was released on October 16, 2009 for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, on September 8, 2011 for iPad 2 on App Store and on November 21, 2011 for BlackBerry PlayBook. Demos were made available on September 30,...
, Terraria
Terraria
Terraria is an action-adventure/RPG indie game released by independent game studio Re-Logic. The game features exploration, crafting, building structures and combat with a variety of creatures...
, Plants vs. Zombies
Plants vs. Zombies
Plants vs. Zombies is a tower defense action video game developed and originally published by PopCap Games for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. The game involves a homeowner using many varieties of plants to repel an army of zombies from "eating their brains". It was first released on May 5, 2009,...
, Limbo
Limbo (video game)
Limbo is a puzzle-platform video game and the premiere title of independent Danish game developer Playdead. The game was released in July 2010 as a platform exclusive title on Xbox Live Arcade, and was later re-released as part of a retail game pack along with Trials HD and Splosion Man in April...
, Super Meat Boy
Super Meat Boy
Super Meat Boy is an independent video game designed by Edmund McMillen and Tommy Refenes and developed by Team Meat. It is the successor to McMillen and Jonathan McEntee's October 2008 flash game Meat Boy. Super Meat Boy was released on the Xbox 360 through Xbox Live Arcade in October 2010, on...
and Minecraft
Minecraft
Minecraft is a sandbox-building independent video game written in Java originally by Swedish creator Markus "Notch" Persson and now by his company, Mojang, formed from the proceeds of the game. It was released as an alpha on May 17, 2009, with a beta version on December 20, 2010...
.