Faircamp by @freebliss@post.lurk.org is an open tool for generating clean static sites for artists or labels to offer their music for preview and/or download on the hosting of their choice.
While it is not impossible to navigate setting up and while there are some tools to help do the site generation part without installing anything yourself, you still need to then host your static site bundle somewhere as well. If you don't feel you can or feel like doing any or all of that, we can make it a bit cheaper and easier together.
Artists: Reach out if you would like to have a faircamp site built and/or hosted for your work. Larger catalogues are not trivial for build or storage. Still reach out if you would like to have a page setup even if you are unable to finacially chip in. We might be able to line up a sponsor to cover your setup/hosting.
Sponsors and Friends: Please also reach out if you would like to help us to help more artists who may not be in a position to contribute to setup or hosting costs so they might be able to try this kind of thing.
Faircamp sites can at the per release level be preview only, free to download, download via code only (which can be offered via another pay system like ko-fi etc), or soft pay curtain requesting to please pay what you can. It is not a full-on web store or social style platform. It is however a cool option in our tool belt to hold agency over our work as artists and provide a great vehicle to offer our work on our own terms outside of corpo silos etc.
Overall, the artist can be comfortable the platform is doing nothing weird with their work and the users can appreciate there is no data being collected, no tracking, no metrics, no google, nothing. The only 3rd party scripts you might encounter are from donation widgets/links to support the artists via liberapay, ko-fi, stripe, an unavoidable reality if we are to materially support our creative cousins.
Please respect artists' licenses and our humble honesty box setup. If you have the means please donate or support the artists as directly as possible via the links they provide. Stay awesome out there.
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main styles: guitar, classical, relaxed, atmospheric
main styles: electronic, techno, synth, drum & bass, house, fun
main styles: electronic, techno, synth, synthetic, ambient, experimental
main styles: alternative, alt rock folk, New York
main styles: metal, heavy, industrial
main styles: alternative, dark, electronic, indie
Check out the Faircamp webring.