March 31, 2002

4:39 PM

I’m probably really late to the boat for Epitonic, but goodness, if you’re looking to sample mp3s, videos, sometimes entire albums, for indie or otherwise unknown bands this here is it. Genres from punk to folk to various electronica-delectica all the way back out to hip hop, jazz and contemporary composers. They’re all here: Styles of Beyond, Solex, Blue Six, Sporto Kantes, Couch (Alle Auf Pause), Gonzales, on and on. They must eat bandwidth like Jim Morrison and mescaline caps.
posted by raaka (11 comments total)

Better late than never, raaka, Epitonic has some great stuff, I got great tracks from Arcwelder and Weston, among others. If you like the stuff Epitonic has, you'll absolutely go nuts at the mp3 section(check the side menu) of Insound. They also have great links to zines and labels as well. Have a blast, pal.
posted by jonmc at 4:51 PM on March 31, 2002

I've been a member over at epitonic for about 6 months now, and yes, I love it. I think that this type of service is what we will be paying for in the future: trusted people with similar taste to yours, telling you what is good. I live in a musically conservative place, and it's great for me to find suggestions like this.

The only thing I'm not too fond about it is the rate of new songs added, usually only a few a week.

jonmc, thanks for the link to Insound! I knew that they were a cool resource for obscure stuff, but I'd never seen their mp3 pile before.

Off to download!
posted by sauril at 5:31 PM on March 31, 2002

Oy! I wanted to keep Epitonic all to myself! Now you've gone and blown it, you bastard! Well, I guess I'll have to share with the rest of the MeFi crowd who didn't know about it.

Insound, eh, jonmc? I'll be sure to check it out.
posted by ashbury at 5:52 PM on March 31, 2002

Those stories about Jim Morrisson taking drugs range from speculative rumours to downright maliceful birds and trees and colors and everything rubbery and cornfed and cracks in the enamel of reality.
posted by Settle at 6:09 PM on March 31, 2002

Epitonic gave me the gift of Sleepytime Trio.
posted by saladin at 6:20 PM on March 31, 2002

anewnoise is pretty great, too.
posted by kliuless at 7:34 PM on March 31, 2002

Hi, my name is Kahboom, and for the last six months or so, I've been using epitonic. I started by downloading 50 songs that seemed interesting, or that were by bands reviewed on Pitchfork. I played them on random, kept track of the ones I liked and dumped the rest. Then I'd go back to Epitonic and look at the pages for the artists I'd kept, and opened all the bands' pages that it said "If you liked x, then try Y". Downloaded those tracks. Random play. Cull. Rinse, repeat. I am now 14 percent happier than I was before meeting Epitonic.
posted by kahboom at 8:11 PM on March 31, 2002

Wow, I've completely forgotten about Epitonic. I went there a year or so back, looking for a better alternative than Mp3.com for hosting music. Thanks for the Insound/ANewNoise links.
posted by Darke at 9:01 PM on March 31, 2002

Wow, I've completely forgotten about Epitonic. I went there a year or so back, looking for a better alternative than Mp3.com for hosting music. Thanks for the Insound/ANewNoise links.
posted by Darke at 9:01 PM on March 31, 2002

The problem with music is that good music is hard to find. There's so many artists and so little time. I hope this site turns out to be worth the time I'm going to put into it. And from the posts, it has a good chance to be.

There should be playlists of songs you can d/l. Say, have artists put together definitive playlists and you can just click a link and download all the best downtempo songs of each year. Wouldn't mind paying for that.
posted by physics at 9:45 PM on March 31, 2002

i have been finding lots of great indie stuff at Audio Obsessive.
posted by bluno at 10:32 AM on June 21, 2002