Songs with Epic Dynamic Progressions - Calm & Beautiful to Intense

[anphex]

Some seriously cool songs you guys posted. Keep them coming!

A slightly more experimental piece from my man Porter Robinson which I had the blessing to see live in Berlin last year.
Starts off weird, but the "resolution" at the end becomes so much more pretty thanks to that weirdness.

Someone wrote "it's like a piece of music coming to life".

 

[goat76]

Mogwai - Friend Of The Night​

 

[goat76]

Low - Lullaby​

 

[Soniclife]

I think I will sink my teeth more into Post Rock thanks to @napfkuchen. Didn't know this Genre, or at least I could never find the category for it.

Post Rock is a go to genre for this, I was going to recommend a Mogwai track but @goat76 beat me to it, plus I'm hopeless with their track titles. Also check out God speed you black emperor, they do great quiet to loud.

Even if I have to admit that songs + 10 minutes are not for my young brain that is conditioned by short attention span media.

That's going to really limit this type of music, embrace immersive long tracks, it's glorious.

Here's 2 suggestions that sprang to mind.

Late 80s UK indie, deliberately skinny sounding but surprisingly well recorded, held together by the baseline throughout.

Similar period but American, sadly not well recorded, about a 10db jump when the drummer kicks things into gear.

 

[Soniclife]

Low - Lullaby​

I'll see your early Low, and raise you late period Low.

This doesn't really get loud, it more gloriously expands in size.

 

[goat76]

Post Rock is a go to genre for this, I was going to recommend a Mogwai track but @goat76 beat me to it, plus I'm hopeless with their track titles. Also check out God speed you black emperor, they do great quiet to loud.


That's going to really limit this type of music, embrace immersive long tracks, it's glorious.

Yes, the bands you mention usually have pretty long songs, and that's often important to leave room for the progressive build-up and added elements.

Mogwai is one of the champions of progressive songs, and the same goes for Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Swans. The frontman, Michael Gira, in Swans must be a musical genius; some of their songs are like a universe on their own. I'm fascinated by how someone can create such long songs with fairly slow progression, and still hold the listener in anticipation of what will come around the corner.

This song is 12:39 long, and I think it has to be that long to leave room for the build-up to an epic-sounding end.

Swans - Just A Little Boy (For Chester Burnett)​

And speaking of an epic end of a song by another band...

Slint - Good Morning, Captain​

 

[iGude]

Any genre is welcome!

You are a brave man!

 

[Brian Hall]

NIGHTWISH - The Poet And The Pendulum (OFFICIAL LIVE)​

 

[Brian Hall]

Nightwish - Ghost Love Score (WACKEN 2013)​

 

[Brian Hall]

NIGHTWISH - The Phantom Of The Opera (OFFICIAL LIVE)​

 

[Brian Hall]

Warning: this video has a section with fast flashing lights​

NIGHTWISH - The Greatest Show on Earth (with Richard Dawkins) (OFFICIAL LIVE)​

Edited to add a warning about flashing lights for anyone who might be negatively affected

 

[EERecordist]

Try a search for classical music crescendos.

 

[vilnis]

 

[LTig]

Actually not a single piece but a medley through the career of the band.

 

[dualazmak]

Prokofiev: "Romeo and Juliet (complete)" Seiji Ozawa and Boston Symphony Orchestra: 2-CD-set recorded in 1986 (Ozawa's career peak era).
https://www.discogs.com/release/525...uliet-Complete-Recording-Gesamtaufnahme-Balle
You may try all the tracks on YouTube; highly recommended for you to get the 2-CD-set.
The very first track "Introduction";

Schubert: "Rosamunde (complete)" Kurt Mazur with Elly Ameling, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig: 1-CD recorded in 1983
https://www.discogs.com/release/862...chester-Leipzig-Kurt-Masur-Rosamunde-Complete
Enjoyable music, wonderful performance, and really excellent recording quality! Highly recommended for you to get the CD.
You may try all the tracks on YouTube; here is the overture;

I have been using several tracks of this wonderful album in my "Audio Reference/Sampler Music Playlist", as rather intensively shared here #588 on my project thread.

If you would be interested, please also visit my independent thread;
- An Attempt Sharing Reference Quality Music Playlist: at least a portion and/or whole track being analyzed by 3D color spectrum of Adobe Audition

 

[LTig]

Old, but still very good.

Short version for piano:

 

[skyblueshag]

A powerful crescendo, conveniently located at the beginning. I'd call it all dissonant though.

 

[skyblueshag]

Someone already linked King Crimson's Starless. I thought I'd add Larks Tongue in Aspic to the list, or even Easy Money for that matter.

 

[Titurel]

It's odd, but what one perceives as mounting intensity might not be "heard" as such by another, because what fires up that emotional detector in each listener is exceedingly personal. For me, there is hardly anything more captivating than a well crafted song arrangement with a great hook. David Foster built his career very much on identifying a great hook and then wringing every ounce of emotion out of it. "Juiced up" harmonies and clever harmonic progressions are much more compelling for me than mere dynamic or timbral intensification. The selection I'm attaching won't challenge Telarc or Jimmy Hendrix in their domains, but I think it holds its place very well within its own genre. (BTW, if you've got 20+ hours free, you might watch "The King's Affection," which uses the tune below to great effect, along with a number of other interesting songs.)

 

[jEDGEc0m]

Here's the waveform, so you can see it's a wild ride:

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How did you create the REW output? When I drag a long song into it it just says:

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I do find that remix better sounding than the original album.
But my preference is the live version from "Lamentations" that isn't locked to a click track, and doesn't have the very lo-fi and fake vinyl clicks n pops on the beautiful guitar part in the middle.

the video version is also a slightly different master than the one on live audio only album version. album version more limited, but I might actually like it better on the heavy set.

(just figured out why the crowd sound annoys me between songs on some of that recording - it's out of phase. edit - looks like maybe it's not out of phase for the 2nd, heavy set from which the link below is - but the first set, the mellow songs - yeah, the crowd is out of phase. - edit - might only be on that particular youtube video that the crowd audio is out of phase - perhaps from 5.1 mixdown)