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26-467: David Sinclair (born 24 November 1947) is a British keyboardist (organ, piano, harpsichord , electric piano, Mellotron , Davolisint, etc.) associated with the psychedelic / progressive rock Canterbury Scene since the late 1960s. He became famous with the band Caravan and was responsible as a songwriter for creating some of their best-known tracks: "For Richard", "Nine Feet Underground", "The Dabsong Conshirtoe", "Proper Job/Back to Front". Sinclair

52-510: A 50-artist pilot in 2020, the company opened limited access to 10,000 artists in early 2021 with plans for further expansion. Their fans preorder the pressing rather than having the artist fund it upfront. Bandcamp lets artists set their own price. The company's two million vinyl sales in 2020 doubled that of 2019. Bandcamp was acquired by Epic Games on March 2, 2022. Epic said the platform "will play an important role in Epic's vision to build out

78-409: A blues rock band, moved towards pop and soft rock and became known for synthesizer-infused hits in the 1980s such as " Everywhere " and " Little Lies ". Keyboardists are often hired in cover bands and tribute bands , to replicate the original keyboard parts and other instrumental parts such as strings or horn section where it would be logistically difficult or too expensive to hire people to play

104-505: A creator marketplace ecosystem...". Ethan Diamond said "Bandcamp will keep operating as a stand-alone marketplace and music community...". Bandcamp's employees voted to form a union via the Office and Professional Employees International Union in March 2023. On September 28, 2023, Epic Games announced that it was laying off 870 people, roughly 16% of its workforce. As part of this, Bandcamp

130-820: A follow-up to Stream , was released in 2013, the Japanese version being slightly different in packaging and content from the international version. In May 2015 a series of well-received concert dates with saxophonist Jimmy Hastings took place in Japan. Dave Sinclair's most recent solo album, Out of Sinc , was released in June 2018. In 2021, he released a compilation album Hook, Line & Sinclair , containing unreleased demos, alternate versions and new material. In October 2022, Dave released an episodic documentary mini-series, Dave Sinclair ... The Lost Interview , talking about his music career with Caravan, Matching Mole, Hatfield and

156-564: A wish list. Uploading music to Bandcamp is free. The company takes a 15% commission on sales made from their website, which drops to 10% after an artist's sales surpass US$ 5,000, plus payment processing fees. Downloads are offered in lossy formats MP3 ( LAME , 320k or V0), AAC and Ogg Vorbis , and in lossless formats FLAC , ALAC , WAV and AIFF . In addition to digital downloads artists may offer to sell their music on physical media such as CD or vinyl . Bandcamp's website offers users access to an artist's page, with information on

182-519: Is based in New York. Its managing editor was jj skolnik, a writer for Pitchfork , BuzzFeed and The New York Times , as well as former author of punk zines . They were made redundant in October 2023. Among Bandcamp Daily 's columnists have been writers of Wired , Vice , NPR Music , Pitchfork and Paste . On August 4, 2017, the staff of Bandcamp Daily donated all of

208-585: The NAACP Legal Defense Fund . 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. Will Toledo initially released his 2011 studio album Twin Fantasy on Bandcamp. Several indie game developers published their game soundtracks on Bandcamp, including

234-801: The 1960s, with many bands using the Hammond organ, Mellotron , and electric pianos such as the Fender Rhodes . The Doors became the first rock group to use the Moog synthesizer on a record on 1967's " Strange Days ". Other bands, including the Moody Blues , the Rolling Stones and the Beatles , would go on to add it to their records, both to provide sound effects and as a musical instrument in its own right. In 1966, Billy Ritchie became

260-611: The A-100 (similar in configuration and features to the B3 and C3 models, but slightly smaller in overall bulk), culminating in his soaring work on what is perhaps their most celebrated album, In the Land of Grey and Pink (1971). Calyx, The Canterbury Website , compiled by the French music expert Aymeric Leroy, refers to him as "master of the typical Canterbury organ sound/playing". However, from

286-507: The Bandcamp union. Artists and labels upload music to Bandcamp and control how they sell it, setting their own prices, offering users the option to pay more, and selling merchandise. Users can download their purchases or stream their music on the Bandcamp application or website only once or, by preserving the purchase voucher, unlimited times. They can also send purchased music as a gift, view lyrics, and save individual songs or albums to

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312-903: The North and Camel. Made for non-profit media, the videos are exclusively available via his YouTube channel. 52 years after the release of In the Land of Grey and Pink (1971), on April 8th 2023, Dave launched a crowdfunding campaign via Indiegogo . The campaign revealed that his original Hammond A-100 organ that he used with Caravan, Matching Mole and Hatfield and the North, was in need of immediate rescue and restoration. In May 2023, Dave listed his solo catalog on Bandcamp Solo Caravan Camel/Mirage Robert Wyatt Matching Mole Richard Sinclair's Caravan of Dreams Polite Force Keyboardist There are many famous electronic keyboardists in metal, rock, pop and jazz music. A complete list can be found at List of keyboardists . The use of electronic keyboards grew in popularity throughout

338-574: The actual instruments. Bandcamp Bandcamp is an American online audio distribution platform founded in 2007 by Oddpost co-founder Ethan Diamond and programmers Shawn Grunberger, Joe Holt and Neal Tucker, with headquarters in Oakland, California . Acquired by Epic Games in March 2022, the company was sold to Songtradr in 2023. Bandcamp was founded in 2007 by Ethan Diamond and programmers Shawn Grunberger, Joe Holt and Neal Tucker, headquartered in Oakland, California , US. In 2010,

364-528: The artist, social media links, merchandising links and listing their available music. Artists can change the look of their page and customize its features. During the COVID-19 pandemic , in 2020 Bandcamp announced that they would be waiving their share of revenue and donating all sales to artists for 24 hours on March 20. They repeated the initiative in the following months and began calling these days "Bandcamp Fridays"; they are scheduled once every month and

390-659: The creators of Aquaria , Bastion , Cuphead , Sanctum , Machinarium , Terraria , Plants vs. Zombies , Limbo , Super Meat Boy , To the Moon , YIIK: A Postmodern RPG , Fez , Minecraft , Undertale , Deltarune , and Stardew Valley . In December 2014, Bandcamp for Labels was launched. Popular independent labels such as Sub Pop , Fat Wreck Chords , Relapse Records and Epitaph Records launched their own Bandcamp pages. In November 2019, Peter Gabriel added his complete solo catalog to Bandcamp. On June 18, 2020, Björk published her discography on

416-547: The early 2000s he released two solo albums, Full Circle and Into the Sun (both 2003). Since then, he has been engaged in a solo career, including concert appearances in Japan and England. A 30th anniversary re-release of his Moon Over Man album (originally issued on CD by Voiceprint in 1993) appeared in 2006. Like the earlier Voiceprint release, this consisted of demos for an unreleased solo album recorded 1976–77, featuring contributions from vocalists Tim Lynk and Gay Perez; however,

442-474: The first keyboard player to take a lead role in a rock band, replacing guitar, and thereby preparing the ground for others such as Ray Manzarek , Keith Emerson and Rick Wakeman . In the late 1960s, French musician Jean Michel Jarre , a pioneer of modern electronic music, started to experiment with synthesizers and other electronic devices. As synthesizers became more affordable and less unwieldy, many more bands and producers began using them, eventually paving

468-419: The platform. In December, UK label Warp joined Bandcamp; this made records by Hudson Mohawke , Aphex Twin , Kelela and other artists available on the platform. On October 21, 2021, Radiohead published their discography on the platform. In the summer of 2016, their editorial content was expanded by launching Bandcamp Daily , an online music publication about artists on the platform. The publication

494-527: The second album onwards, he also added other keyboards to his palette, including piano , harpsichord and Mellotron . On his return to Caravan for their fifth album, For Girls Who Grow Plump in the Night , he pioneered the Davolisint. In between his stints with Caravan, he was a member of Matching Mole (1971–72), Hatfield and the North (1972–73), Polite Force (1976–77) and Camel (1978–1979). In

520-485: The site enabled embedding in other websites and shared links on social media sites. As of August 2020 , half of Bandcamp's revenue was from sales for physical products. In November 2020, Bandcamp launched Bandcamp Live, a ticketed live-streaming service for artists. The service is an integrated feature of the Bandcamp website. Fees on tickets were waived until March 31, 2021, and became 10% from then. Bandcamp provides vinyl pressing services for artists. After

546-766: The sound quality of the old analogue tapes was greatly improved and bonus tracks from the same sessions were added. He moved to Kyoto , Japan in 2005. Since 2016, he lives in Yuge Island of Kamijima in the Seto Inland Sea . Two solo albums, PianoWorks1 – Frozen in Time and Stream (the latter featuring several distinguished guest artists) were released in 2010 and 2011 respectively; licensing problems have so far prevented Stream from being officially issued outside Japan, although it has recently become available in other territories. The Little Things , intended as

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572-492: The staff involved in forming the unionization, as well as the ones that were helping to negotiate fair terms. In an internal email, Songtradr's CEO, Paul Wiltshire, said that Bandcamp's financial state had "not been healthy" due to increased operating costs over steady revenues, despite the site's continuous profitability. In response to the layoffs, users and artists of the platform expressed anxiety about its future. As of December 2023 , Songtradr had not formally recognized

598-584: The way for bands that consisted solely of synthesizers and other electronic instruments such as drum machines by the late 1970s/early 1980s. Some of the first bands that used this set up were Kraftwerk , Suicide and the Human League . Rock groups also began using synthesizers and electronic keyboards alongside the traditional line-up of guitar, bass and drums; particularly in progressive rock groups such as Yes , Genesis , Emerson, Lake & Palmer and Pink Floyd . Fleetwood Mac , who had originated as

624-586: The website Is It Bandcamp Friday? was established to provide timing clarity to those outside the Pacific Time Zone . After raising more than $ 40 million for its musicians in 2020 through Bandcamp Fridays, the platform extended the program to four additional dates in 2021. In response to the protests that took place following the murder of George Floyd and other African Americans who had died from police violence, Bandcamp announced that for 24 hours on June 19, 2020 they would donate 100% of profits to

650-652: Was born in Herne Bay, Kent , England . Having started his musical career 1966–67 with the Wilde Flowers , he founded Caravan in 1968 with his cousin Richard Sinclair (bass/vocals), Pye Hastings (guitar/vocals), and Richard Coughlan (drums) and was in and out of the band for 35 years (so far 1968–71, 1973–75, 1979–82, 1990–2002). Over the course of Caravan's first three albums he developed his playing enormously on his favoured model of Hammond organ ,

676-429: Was sold to Songtradr , another music platform. According to an Epic Games spokesperson, Songtradr incrementally offered employment to the Bandcamp staff. However, several employees were locked out of their systems and faced uncertainty over their jobs. After the acquisition was completed on October 16, Songtradr stated that only 60 of Bandcamp's previously 118 workers had been offered a contract. Songtradr fired most of

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