Music that slowly increases in intensity until you almost can't even stand the intensity anymore

Radiohead - How to disappear completely

find the loudest way to listen this you can. sit back and let the feral madness rise within you. don't think you necessarily need to like techno - this is more like the soundtrack to ancient humans discovering fire.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d64-DBuVKH0

Isn't this a standard thing with Glenn Branca symphonies? & therefore presumably most of the artists he's directly influenced.

Was also thinking of the Swans live version of Sex God Sex from Feel Good Now and other live sets from around the same period. Feel Good Now version is about 20 minutes long.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrBoQLkZY2g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nd_36U7gfys

Beatles - "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" the use of ever-increasing moog white noise is very cool. the intensity of the sound builds and builds and then is cut off. the cut to immediate soft and sunny intro of "Here Comes the Sun" puts an emphasis on the change in moods that is very pleasing. the whole song build up and then breaks like the sun through a cloud. the Beatles had been incorporating Yoko Ono's ideas for a year now and it's cool to hear her influence across Abbey Road.

Bonzo Dog Dooh Dah Band - "The Intro and the Outro" made to seem like every bar a new instrument is introduced, building up the sound layer by layer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfR6_V91fG8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_pDwv3tpug

Beatles - "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" the use of ever-increasing moog white noise is very cool. the intensity of the sound builds and builds and then is cut off. the cut to immediate soft and sunny intro of "Here Comes the Sun" puts an emphasis on the change in moods that is very pleasing.

Except from 1969 to 1987, there was no immediate cut to "Here Comes The Sun." It was, "Hey, I think there's something wrong with your turntable; it cut off the end of that song."

(That's what I assumed for years until I heard the CD, as my parents' turntable had a tendency to automatically lift the tone arm a half second or so before the end of a side.)

Isn't this a standard thing with Glenn Branca symphonies? & therefore presumably most of the artists he's directly influenced.

Indeed.

which draws a lot on minimalism -- it's kinda their m.o.

the last ≈ 45 minutes of Xela's album In bocca al lupo progresses from soothing dark ambient to noize/drone through the gradual introduction of white noise/electronics/tribal drums/damned souls in hell

(and it isn't half as corny as my description suggests)

sorry folks, but

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

then there's

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3ceW4bimyA

but also

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbxp3qt9LEc

haha but really let's focus on what's required

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8pZy5PmIoU

and have a few more idk there are so many this is just a small taste

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPq4WhPir9w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bf0VntRIg1o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiITP-zP-98

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

^^^you get a cool arty video with this one!

Never apologize for constructive contributions.

Ulrich Schnauss - Medusa

otm! I listened to that song tonight as I navigated the final stretch of a traffic jam, and I half expected to emerge into a wasteland of sinkholes and lava flows and Sim City monsters

(but it turned out to be a paving crew, and the choral outro just made me feel sheepish..."sorry Herr Schnauss don't you think that's a little too on the nose?" etc.)

i haven't listened to this song in forever, but,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMmXU-K3d3k

(it sounds a lot better in the context of the album)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFK1wKyuI_8

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlhK1D-8o2g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2dSlKdhBkg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHm_h39jMis

^ great example

Man, how did I forget to include 'River Deep, Mountain High'? And, to an extent, Lorraine Ellison's 'Stay With Me'?

(Listening to some '66 jams this afternoon, obvs.)

Otis Redding's Try a Little Tenderness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxKE-wPySGc

bedhead- parade
low - days of..
slowcore is good for this. lots of codeine fits the bill but i'd have to pull the cd's out

Serena-Maneesh - 'Your Blood in Mine'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00TI8Q3ksT4

excellent shout

grieg, "in der halle des bergkönigs"

East 17 - Stay Another Day

The classic Romanian answer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0W395ryBuqg

gene pitney, "i'm gonna be strong"

Minimalism-wise, Philip Glass "The Grid" from Koyaanisqatsi, especially in the context of the movie.

Thomas Dolby 'Hyperactive (Heavy Breather SubVersion)' 12" mix, which comes to a crashing end instead of (what was he thinking?) fading out like it does on the album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meFGiIp4C3Q

SPK "Wars of Islam" (which is crazy intense from the start, so what's left to do but the "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" turn-up-the-noise-and-cut-the-tape trick)

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

Equinox - Acid Rain (Breakage remix)

Eyvind Kang - Invisus Natalis

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

Portishead - The Rip

That Eyvind track was immense.