Difficult Art And Music
Music and Art label specialising in the avant-garde, the academic, the conceptual, and the challenging.
- Whilst your busy bandcamping today, don't overlook our current pre-order: a wonderful minimal synth soundtrack for a gothic novel: difficultartandmusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-ta...
- BUY ONE GET ONE FREE Yes, DAAM is turning into a supermarket. This bandcamp friday, if you buy ANY digital release, I'll send you a free digital release. If you buy ANY physical release, I'll send you a free physical release randomly from the catalogue. difficultartandmusic.bandcamp.com/music
- We got copies of the latest EX! from our friends at Adventurous Music in stock. UK people get it from us for lower shipping costs! difficultartandmusic.bandcamp.com/merch/limite...
- As close as we're going to get to another TEXT album. I'm sold.
- Just played the most awkward gig of my life. My set was 'fine', but tensions between the organizers devolved into borderline cruelty. Honestly, with all that's going on in the world - if you can't be nice to people around you, just be quiet and go home. No need to publicly admonish people.
- nothing like joining your local community Facebook group to discover how many racists live in your pretty little town.
- CELEBRATING 100,000 PLAYS ON BANDCAMP. FREE CODES TO ALL OUR ALBUMS. STARTING WITH: 5r2r-bbyk 3bwl-g97a tbpg-xppz dvhq-uzq7 77zz-e4jh p9e7-ez65 xl2z-ua85 r27x-3gzf hpmk-jn3f ukmr-ge32 q7rk-kelm vz8a-3udh fwx2-675g 7tzb-hvx5 gq7b-k9p4 lutm-e8er frtk-eljh q5z9-u2fd
- Pretty cool threshold passed today - 100,000 plays on @bandcamp.com!
- Doing band admin and reminded how fun my band is live. Anyone putting on shows in the South / South East of UK want to book us??? :) m.youtube.com/watch?v=pU3s...
- One of those days where it feels crazy to do ANYTHING but stare agog at the news, but that's no more helpful than getting on with things: creating art is at its core a step towards potentiality - others ways of being beyond reality as it stands. Which is a long way of saying: new Patreon is up!
- Been reading a book about the collapse of major civilisations throughout history. It’s striking both how similar many of the triggers are to whats currently happening in the US, and how quickly (as in, a few decades) large civilisations can completely fall apart.
- @meansmagazine.bsky.social top community picks, feat: @bofbriz.bsky.social @audioobscura.bsky.social @nobuka.bsky.social @bonfirehill.bsky.social @sugaarpan.bsky.social @swansither.bsky.social and more! meansmag.substack.com/p/means-maga...
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- Finally got a job interview for a job I actually want. I did explain in my application that I have no real experience solving 'marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena' for a fringe department within the FBI, but they seemed to think I could learn on the job.
- the third and final @meansmagazine.bsky.social EOY list! substack.com/home/post/p-...
- Not checked out Near Minerals Talking Castle OST yet? As a small label the numbers are always tight. But if I sell 4 more copies of the vinyl, I can afford to do a full pressing, which would be amazing. Could YOU make all the difference? difficultartandmusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-ta...
- Reposted by Difficult Art And MusicReform losing. Green Party gaining. Country winning. Fight back with us: Join.greenparty.org.uk
- Just got an email from a bandcamp editor saying how awesome our Talking Castle release is. Must be true then! Pick up a copy of the vinyl whilst you still can! difficultartandmusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-ta...
- @meansmagazine.bsky.social's second end of year list - this time from the irrepressibly handsome Distant Animals: substack.com/home/post/p-...
- Kickstarter suspicious types can get the Near Minerals / Talking Castle OST directly from our bandcamp store now... difficultartandmusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-ta...
- Do I know anyone that can knit and can you make me this thanks. www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1...
- You know when the perfect time to buy a Xmas card is? That's right, mid-January. difficultartandmusic.bandcamp.com/album/wishin...
- Prepping the next 2 DAAM releases, plus 3 more following them in quick succession. PLUS a new kickstarter for a double-album featuring a plethora of excellent experimental composers... exciting times!
- What's that? @heavycloud.bsky.social's top music of 2025, all in one place? Over at @meansmagazine.bsky.social you say? meansmag.substack.com/p/heavy-clou...
- Going to launch a new art-punk / punk-adjacent / slow core / weird-heavy band music sub-label of DAAM this year. Completely open to submissions or recommendations of projects that fit that description and might like to get involved! PLEASE SHARE!
- A cheesy folk cover album featuring Norah Jones being one of the best albums of 2025 was absolutely not on my bingo card.
- LONDON-BASED ARTISTS, MUSICIANS, PERFORMERS! Anyone interested in playing an (unpaid) gig mid/end Feb? Broadly experimental vibes. It's in an art-gallery in Vauxhall. Something that engages with the theme of 'law / dissensus / protest' would be ideal but not required. Get in touch if interested!
- It's all last chances today: Last chance for anyone associated with @meansmagazine.bsky.social (regular contributors, artists we've showcased, people who've supported us with ad pages, anyone from our broad community) to recommend albums for our end of year list! It's going up early next week!
- 45 mins to go, 29 backers so far. Can we make it to a round 30? www.kickstarter.com/projects/daa...
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- 3 hours left! www.kickstarter.com/projects/daa...
- 24 HOURS TO GO! PLEASE SHARE! I can't wait to bring this unique project to life. Check out the project page for audio and writing samples! www.kickstarter.com/projects/daa...
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- LONDON-BASED ARTISTS, MUSICIANS, PERFORMERS! Anyone interested in playing an (unpaid) gig mid/end Feb? Broadly experimental vibes. It's in an art-gallery in Vauxhall. Something that engages with the theme of 'law / dissensus / protest' would be ideal but not required. Get in touch if interested!
- Well I thought this was pretty funny, but apparently no dice whatsoever.
- If you go on @kickstarter.com you'll quickly see that there is a choice between funding our latest LP/book, and funding a new Thundercats role-playing game. I know where my money's going, Lion-O. In all seriousness - its the last few days, so please share! www.kickstarter.com/projects/daa...
- Absolutely wall to wall brilliance. Album of the (last) year? laagoniadevivir.bandcamp.com/album/ladv21...
- If any Americans are traveling to the UK and want to transport some records with INSANE shipping charges (making them impossible for me to buy outright), I'm building quite a list.
- If you go on @kickstarter.com you'll quickly see that there is a choice between funding our latest LP/book, and funding a new Thundercats role-playing game. I know where my money's going, Lion-O. In all seriousness - its the last few days, so please share! www.kickstarter.com/projects/daa...
- New @meansmagazine.bsky.social call-out! There's a really tight deadline on this one, only 3 weeks to get something in - www.curatorspace.com/opportunitie...
- Representing the universal 'other', Near Minerals chose to give the main castles unseen enemy the same theme as the castle itself, though drawn through further layers of decay and obfuscation, the harmony finally collapsing into a whistling drone of frozen textures: soundcloud.com/daam-3881342...
- flight delayed, in a Muslim country. Mandatory meals required for all passengers by law. Ryan Air has just whipped out a tray of ham sandwiches.
- I'm not affiliated in any way, but I saw this when promoting my own @kickstarter.com campaign, and it looks really cool. It's close to ending without hitting its funding, which seems a real shame! www.kickstarter.com/projects/hea...
- One week to go and dangerously close to hitting 150%! Extra rewards incoming if we do!
- 'Duke In Chains' invokes minimal modular synthesis and spatialized audio to create the bed for a proto-rave ambience - like listening to a nightclub at 2am at the bottom of the ocean. It is the theme of the books tragic prisoner - ever watching, ever apart. soundcloud.com/daam-3881342...
- YOU. Yes, you. Reading this on the sofa while deciding what to make for breakfast and how much longer you've got of solitude before the others wakes up and ruin everything. You. Go to our new kickstarter and give our project a go. It's good. You'll like it. www.kickstarter.com/projects/daa...
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- get Yourself a special new year’s gift (failed resolution not included): www.kickstarter.com/projects/daa...
- The Talking Castle OST moves from more harmonic, fragmented synthesis, to deeply atmospheric textures of amorphous drone and tones. Check out track 2 'sixty slaves for sixty oars' which is a tense, minimal rendering of the ghost-filled castle of the book. soundcloud.com/daam-3881342...
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- www.kickstarter.com/projects/daa... If the project gets 200% funded, I'm going to put everyone who spends £7 or more into a draw to win the big £50 bundle (and if you back the £50 bundle, a bunch of back catalogue label stuff instead). Total backers will likely be less than 30, so thats good odds!
