Epic collage is a term coined by musicologist Adam Harper to describe the digital collage-like musical form of prominent producer Elysia Crampton and their affiliates through NON Worldwide. Despite utilizing the thematic elements of Deconstructed Club as well as adopting its abrasive sonic palette through its direct concurrence with contemporary Post-Industrial music, epic collages are not necessarily beat-driven or club-oriented and favour a more sprawling cinematic approach which may more accurately resemble genres such as Ambient
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Epic collage is a term coined by musicologist Adam Harper to describe the digital collage-like musical form of prominent producer Elysia Crampton and their affiliates through NON Worldwide. Despite utilizing the thematic elements of Deconstructed Club as well as adopting its abrasive sonic palette through its direct concurrence with contemporary Post-Industrial music, epic collages are not necessarily beat-driven or club-oriented and favour a more sprawling cinematic approach which may more accurately resemble genres such as Ambient, Glitch, Noise, New Age, Cinematic Classical, Nature Recordings, or Progressive Electronic.
An epic collage may draw upon elements of Spoken Word, Poetry, or Radio Drama which is most frequently exhibited through (but not limited to) the use of text-to-speech transcription, clips of spoken ASMR, and samples from various pop media (film or video game dialogue, interviews, viral videos, etc.). Epic collage artists are also commonly defined by their ability to decontextualize recognizable samples (such as vocal stems from Pop, Contemporary R&B, Trap, or Nu Metal tracks) and provide them with a seemingly conflicting sonic backdrop which thusly results in a Mashup (or mess-up) that strives to be greater than the sum of its parts, oftentimes conveying gravitas as opposed to the levitas of a more conventional mashup (though perhaps a blurring of the lines between the two).
Releases in this style may emulate the pounding trailer impacts and machine gun clatter of Chino Amobi’s Paradiso, or they might favour the rustling forest critters of Sentinel’s Murmur, or even the stretched and distorted samplework of Amnesia Scanner & Bill Kouligas’s Lexachast, regardless of the aesthetic relation they all share with deconstructed club.
