I'M NOT AN EPIC I JUST LAST A LOT - The Not Epics Poll campaigning thread

I thought we could big up some tunes which might not get otherwise appreciated, especially ones that aren't on Spotify. I'll start with "220 V" by Wechselspannung (aka Pete Namlook and Jonah Sharp), released in 1994:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ab0AnWS56hM

This is a ever-mutating, album-length monster that just keeps on building itself on top of sparse but cleverly used elements, like a musical Jenga tower. It's by and far the best ambient electro track I've heard, though it's also the only ambient electro track I've ever heard. I don't think too many people have dared to attempt what these two are doing here.

Why not use the voting thread for campaigning? I don't see the need for a separate thread.

People usually don't want the voting thread to get jammed with Yotube links etc, that's why we've had separate campaigning threads for bigger polls.

50 Foot Wave's power + light is streamable here.

http://50footwave.cashmusic.org/power+light/

Kollectiv's Rambo Zambo is great jazzy Krautrock jam:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYUhaz8hXo0

Didn't expect to find the two gargantuan Cecil Taylor epics I nominated on youtube. Buckle up!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNe7UmBBlb8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2DYV1IgHlM

really digging that namlook & sharp piece, op.

anyone with an affinity for jazzy, rhodesy prog with angelic female vocal harmonies should check out this hatfield & the north jam (it's on spotify too):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm-lDy5BUbU

I've been shuffling through the Spotify playlist for the past few days. The previously unheard tracks which have so far grabbed me the most: Chris Forsyth "Solar Motel Part 1", Jack Rose "Red Horse", Moonface "Daughter of a Dove".

Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes - Paix, not on Spotify, and my fav

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpJl3dY8jDc

North Sea Radio Orchestra's "Chimes" has been a welcome discovery from these threads.

This is pretty new but really fantastic-

iNSANLAR - Kime Ne: https://soundcloud.com/insanlar/kime-ne

Danny Ben-Israel - The Hippies of Today are the Assholes of Tomorrow: If you haven't heard this you must absolutely remedy that ASAP:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M8hZAW6q3w

the only F/i track on Spotify is "Threshold", unfortunately "Blue Star" and "Om 21" are not findable (by me at least) on youtube, so y'all are just gonna have to take my word for it w/r/t/ "Blue Star" especially

Preach the NSRO gospel! Glad someone's caught on!

hahaha Mordy I say it with love but that is the most vmic artist/track-title ever (and the lyrics!). the song itself is rly cool tho yeah

Can I just say...

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adore the organ + pastoral violins/bells atmosphere, lovely strummed instrument (of some kind) too

there's a ton of miles davis on there but this is prob the one i'm voting for

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giCYNfJRQDM

You have 20 min and you want to get in touch with your inner thoughts? I think this is one of the most dynamic of the PV epics, about to get a dueling reissue this year!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLiBkEhs2QE

Suspended breath for 13 minutes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrwLhVqJUvg

Lots of electronic dance music on the list but surely not many come more epic than this David Holmes remix of the Sabres classic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7Dv7L7FTUU

feel like i need to pimp the janko nilovic- not sure how well known it is outside specialist circles:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGkOAy0iIho

It's too bad the Lee Ranaldo piece I nominated, Ambient Loop for Vancouver, isn't on Youtube. It's a really amazing piece of work, epic in every sense.

thanks for the reminder!

gamelan, cathedral organ, and choral exaltations and laments from the climax to possibly the greatest soundtrack of all time. no anime interest necessary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQRjHRPNUWU

Better than any of the Mogwai tracks nominated, possibly better than any Mogwai track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NFNAXfW2Pg

omg how many fucking threads are you guys gonna have for this shit

Four.

+1, but not for another couple weeks.

http://suboslo.bandcamp.com/track/stratospheric-penetration

^Wild and wiggy dub from Dallas, TX. They just played a show with Pinkish Black a couple weeks bavk.

Hoedh - Heilige (Sophisme Sonores)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzTLepPG3mE

Deeply sad and beautiful ambient from 1993.

If someone knows anything similar to this I'd greatly appreciate it.

gamelan, cathedral organ, and choral exaltations and laments from the climax to possibly the greatest soundtrack of all time. no anime interest necessary.

Nice! Shortlisted on my ballot now.

Tracks that I've discovered from the Spotify playlist:

Les Rallizes Denudes - The Last One
A lot more sedate than I expected LRD to be (was thinking more along the lines of Mainliner or High Rise).

SubRosa - The Usher
A heavy, less psych/more space Bardo Pond with male+female vox, with some kinda Irish(????) flutey deal.

Ex Easter Island Head - Mallet Guitars 3

International Harvester - I Mourn You

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rveLxdiaLCk&feature=youtube_gdata_player

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WImyfntDGMc&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Leee if you like I Mourn You don't sleep on IH's Skordetider or Parson Sound's Tio Minuter

When's the deadline again? I'm not sure I'm actually going to be able to do this...

March 28

Carla Bley is a big name, but I feel like a lot of people might not have heard her '3/4, For Piano And Orchestra', which isn't on Spotify or even on CD. it's a sidelong orchestrated jazz piece, reminiscent of Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra album (which she appeared on a few years earlier)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fAJ3z293

another one that isn't on Spotify is 'Calypso' by S.O.S. (John Surman - Mike Osborne - Alan Skidmore). avant-garde sax trio + minimal Tangerine Dream-style sequencers. cosmic as fuck.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCUaOWyaRnA

it's too bad Wendy Carlos's 'Aurora Borealis' isn't on youtube or spotify (probably because she is a relentless copyright troll). it's her mid-'80s attempt at a Tangerine Dream-style epic, and it's just as good as any of the 500 TD tracks that have already been nominated.

Leee if you like I Mourn You don't sleep on IH's Skordetider or Parson Sound's Tio Minuter

Damn, Drugs, these are both great, esp. Skordetider's pungent, woozy hotness.

If you only vote for one mid-90s epic trance banger...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiScNAmeZx0

Skordetider is amazing, the sound of mountains moving

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Hhun3NtkTw&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Francis the Great - Look Up in the Sky

Super obscure early 80s afrofunk LP, just got re-issued a few weeks ago for the first time I believe. Doran actually showed this to me on FB. The indelible vibe here is that of Fela Kuti doing Sesame Street.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcDBwb296ik

"I Can See the Sun in Late December" by Roberta Flack (and written by Stevie Wonder)... Here's a singer and a genre that's not generally known for 10+ minute workouts, but if there's such a thing psychedelic quiet storm, this is it. Amazing soul mood piece!

Btw, if anyone can tell what electronic (or rap) track samples the wordless vocals that start 1:12, I'd be eternally grateful! This has been bugging me for a long time.

This one?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?t=30&v=jZ1t87-0cUY

No, it's not that, I'd never heard it before. Nice tune though!

You know what? I'd just assumed "Papa was a Rollin Stone" was too short, but it's not!

Fovea Hex - Allure. If you want to vote for some folky droney goodness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8M9lzdXG9o

Dixon always stood apart from his peers -- compare this to what Shepp, Taylor, Ornette, Ayler et al were doing in 1966-67:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q69yJhGH3MI

https://youtu.be/SLUruwStKlo

The Crawling Chaos - Disierta Membra

I know very little about this band but this is super-cool abstracted Can from the postpunk era that I found trawling thriugh Rateyourmusic

https://youtu.be/0HG4sq0X8_0

Indoor Life - Voodoo

1981 Indoor Life album is kind of like a no wave version of Tin Drum. This is the first song: a fourteen-minute boat trip through all sorts of psychedelic noise and dubbed out synth punk.

https://youtu.be/nNBwgYmTKXc

The Fall - Backdrop

One of the great 'lost' Fall tracks. Never released on a proper album, this song is p much a staple a bunch of their 82/83 shows. No idea why it never made it on Perverted or if they even attempted to record it in the studio.

(Lol posting all this with full knowledge that 90% of ballots have already been turned in)

Backdrop is so good.