A week after promising to preserve many of the site's most beloved features, Bandcamp's new owner has gutted the company's staff. The writing team at Bandcamp Daily is reportedly down to just 3 people.

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Custodians of a dead medium want you to know how MAD! they are that the Ayoras of Radio Impacto 2 won't return their letters.

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It should fill us with outrage that some of the most brilliant artists that lived on this planet and in our time spent their last years scrambling for cash for medical expenses while confined to their sickbeds. That Deejay Deeon was able to produce anything of consequence amid these circumstances is beyond belief.

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Four finely-wrought, deep house cuts along with a distinctly un-house, gorgeous slow-paced piano and sax soul-jazz excursion on Retromigration's Dead Tech EP for LYAM.

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Playing b2b with Jackmaster, Bill Patrick b2b with Hiroko Yamamura and Tres Mortimor on Friday November 3 at Serum at Prysm.

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Armond Williams, who once appeared in an MTV reality show hosted by LeBron James, has pled guilty to the March 2019 killing of Sound-Bar doorman Thurmond Bailey.

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While posing as a defender of artists and the "creator economy," Bandcamp's former owner Epic Games paid the largest fine in history for manipulating users into unwanted purchases and violating rules intended to protect children.

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Byron The Aquarius, Javonntte, Garrett David, Gari Romalis and more appear on a double 12 inch marking Spanish label Mate Records' 5th anniversary, a multi-flavoured collection of reliable, and reliably underground, deep house.

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A collaborative album from techno musician David Moufang (Move D) and musician/composer Jordan Czamanski (Jordan GCZ), Recreational Kraut uses a pretty lean sonic palette of Fender Rhodes, synths and fretless bass on an album in Amsterdam over a few days in 2018 and '19.

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Wake t f up with a new mix from Chicago house DJ wOLFY! from 5 Mag's Monday mix series RISE.

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