My band took our music of that platform a couple of years back after I had a very frustrating experience with the distribution saying our music had been flagged for copyright, despite not being sample based. Most likely caused by us using the same instrument plugin setting that a bigger artist had used somewhere, at least that’s the best correlation I could think of. It certainly wasn’t the only reason for pulling our music but it was the last straw as far as I was concerned. These platforms will make artists jump through all kinds of hoops to ultimately be a cheap advertising agency for the platform itself. Fuck them.

The irony being that even though our reach shrank massively, we made more money focusing through Bandcamp… and now that’s enshittifying so the next logical step is to release on infrastructure we can control.

It’s a harder road for sure but at least I’m not some hoe saying ‘please add us on Spotify, Daniel Elk wants more war tech’.

That said, I still haven’t worked out how to do splits with keysend but I’ll get there.