Wow, this is terrible, and yet it all adds up.
I had bought four of the "albums" under Eyesix on Bandcamp. Recently, I noticed that these albums were not available for streaming on my Bandcamp profile anymore, and on Googling "Eyesix records", I found this thread.
Thank you for looking into this, Twoism.
This Jason is an absolutely horrible person to do this, and I must offer my deepest sympathies to any artists (especially CoE) that were ripped off by him. I only wish I realized this earlier from the frequent deletions and re-uploads of albums on his Bandcamp and the songs that kept getting repeated in several of the albums.
I am sending an email to Bandcamp right now to get a refund, and I will redirect that money to the artists who genuinely deserve this.
Since Eyesix kept deleting albums on their Bandcamp page for upto a few weeks at a time, I had downloaded and stored the four albums I bought from their page:
1. Any Color You Like - Patterns and Process
2. Any Color You Like - Selenite
3. Any Color You Like & Faex Optim - Machines of Loving Grace
4. Echelon Experiments - The Winter Winds
Since there is an ongoing effort to track down the true artists behind these songs, I am happy to upload these online if they are not already found elsewhere. There were a few songs I really liked, and I would love to know more about the real artists behind them.
You know what the most baffling part of this is? I really can't suss out the motive of "Jason" behind this. I really hope that this is done out of some irrational delusional hallocinogen-induced behavior, becase there just doesn't seem to be a rational reason behind this. If this person is willing to go to the effort of criminally selling other people's work as their own, why would they do it at such a small scale to such a small audience? Each album sale is like 5 bucks, and I don't think they sold more than 10-20 copies of each album at best. This is about $100 per album, which sounds like a lot, but is only around a day's worth of minimum wage work here in MA. Why would anyone expose themselves to criminal liability, alienate online communities, and delegitimize their own music for so little?
What bothers me is that this person could be operating a larger network of plagiarized music too. Other music communities should be made aware of this, so that they can be more careful if they find an artist who seems to be a little too cavalier with stealing other people's music and selling it as their own.