This is a 2025 retrospective with “musical gifts” discovered on bandcamp. The music here is shared as name-your-price by artists and labels we admire. You can download the music for free, but please support the artists.
Danny Wolfers better known as Legowelt, among many other artistic projects, is known as one of the most prolific electronic music producers in the world. His label Nightwind Records released in 2025 not one but three albums as name-your-price.
‘The Art of DX7’ by Smackos & Dim Garden is a synthesizer folksong album full of nostalgia and yearning. It was made on a rusty DX7 synthesizer & DexeD controller fed through various analog filters to warm it up a bit.
Influenced by the likes of Wanexa, Eddy Grant, and YMO, Legowelt teamed up with synth-funk artist Shook for a colorful, fun, and melodic new LP. A raw mix of saturated Italo disco, city pop, and electro-funk – drenched in haunting melodies that will linger in your mind for months to come.
Zorlok Compressor is a new project from Legowelt. Forged from dark wave rave – acidhall – dubstep (not the drop-bro EDM trash), electro – oldschool jungle – digidub – bass and whatever flies with that. Pushing the sound back into underground territories with a raw live energy. No mundane safe humdrum wallpaper club music or overproduced clean perfect stereo plastic sound but stuff to create temporal rifts in time & space on your dancefloor and in your mind. These songs mostly started from the more intense later zones of Legowelt’s live performances — though these often start with ‘lighter’ electro, Italo disco, techno, acid pieces etc. it often flows into the sound of Zorlok Compressor.
DayVentura had a great string of edits that he released on bandcamp.
As we have become accustomed to in recent years, the electro veteran Anthony Rother released at the end of the year a name-your-price album on his label 3MULATOR BOY. This time is called “EXIT UTOPIA”.
Cold Transmission Music presented a compilation featuring 23 songs released in 2025 by the label, including artist like Grey Gallows, Kalte Nacht, Kay-Chi, Nightcrawler, Oliver Decrow, Rina Pavar, S Y Z Y G Y X, SIIE or Years Of Denial.
At the beginning of the year, Chicago veteran Hieroglyphic Being AKA Jamal Moss released volume 3 & 4 of ‘Promethean Sounds’.
The Australian edit master, Hysteric offered again a few edits
and as well “The Roquefort Files”, an edits EP made together with Baguette.
Slow Motion Records, through it’s A UFO free edit series, is used to provide some free edits on their bandcamp page. Here are three edits by Karassimeon, Radondo and Antonio Zuza, the last one with a beautiful edit of a Yugoslavian disco gem.
Dutch electronic musician Erik Griffioen released this compilation of eight early unreleased Lloyd Stellar tracks. They are all minimal electro, dreamy and also a bit hypnotic.
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Oráculo Records, the Catalan label has invited Ortrotasce to contribute with a special celebratory gift in the form of a free download release.
Also from Ortrotasce there is available this dark new wave track.
Nothing Was There Records released a dark and emotional EP by Analog Search.
“Love Me More” by Mono Junk debuted on the ultra-limited Korento Compilation 01, released by Dum Records in 2001, and stands out as a compelling exploration of electro vibes, a shining example of the creativity that flourished in the Finnish electronic music landscape at the turn of the millennium.
And finally, we have this beautiful disco rework by Les Yeux Orange.
The Hipodrome Of Music 