Le Epic Choons

[sus]

He is holed up to write his annual epic winter blogpost, which any true friend of Mvuent's would know

 

[sus]

It will be great, he hasn't sent me any drafts but I already know it will be

 

[woops]

There's that toe curling scene in V. where Pynchon goes into painstaking detail describing a Jewish woman's nose job.

so they start by curling her toes and then they move on to... never mind

 

[woops]

anyway especially now @thirdform's waded in i've got to say that what's interesting about the "epic" is what's interesting about everyone's different senses of music. i agree that gus's picks are totally random and all over the place. personally the first thing i'd reach for if i wanted an epic would be really big loud heavy noise rock, with big cosmic chord changes and sweeping effects, not what i, personally, consider more clichéd big bass drops and vocals going 90 hitting the high notes. everyone's different 100 tracks. a canon is constructed and reached further forward. this is why you'll find not much consensus among people in this thread eh. here's my suggestion anyway:


total heavy grind that never stops and gets worse and worse, that's what i think is epic

 

[woops]

i had to try very hard not to say it's all subjective at the end of the day, in that last post

 

[luka]

I'm glad you resisted

 

[woops]

what i'm getting at is something similar but more subtle, in fact so subtle, i can't figure out how to say it haha

 

[version]

 

[luka]

Best pop song ever made

 

[woops]

it's not an epic though is it, it's a sultry ballad

 

[woops]

a dramatic and sultry ballad

 

[luka]

very dramatic.

 

[woops]

don't be cross version i'm not saying it's a shit tune

 

[WashYourHands]

 

[woops]

it just doesn't have the scale to be an epic

 

[WashYourHands]

Check how shit these keyboards are

 

[luka]

 

[thirdform]

I'm sorry Wektor, but these tracks are all uniformly terrible.

Thirdform, I like Atmosfear, but in what world is 70s jazz funk "epic"? Do you even know what that word means?

Listen mate I prefaced that post by saying epic is anti-london.

 

[thirdform]

Yes, the Brits are too thick and Linebaugh is clever enough to pretend to be thick, in order to befriend the Brits, but Mvuent is the only one who is guileless enough (in the best way, I love you Mvuent) that he will give it to you straight.

That's strange because this kind of epic piano house is pretty much direct outgrowth of American garage.

UK:

USA:

Of course the USA production is better, but that's not because of any inherent cultural superiority but because UK vocal house music was mostly not very good in the 90s and all the innovation took place in jungle and techno. Similar to how US Florida and Baltimore breaks are not up to the standards of UK hardcore from the same era.

 

[thirdform]

This however is one of the best house tunes ever (UK production) one for @WashYourHands