Music of Straylight

[Ari Rahikkala]

I'm collecting songs on the Internet that I find capture the "spirit" of different sancts well. Here's a few:

Backbone Site:
Schlock! - X.e.r.o.X

Blavatsky:
Mark Morgan - Ravel's Maze
Tapani Siirtola - The Circle

Clonmacnoise:
Pangenix - Clonmacnoise
Casey Munroe - The Ultron

Deep Trouble:
Riku Nuottajärvi - Didn't You Mean To Ask About Flowers?

Discontinuity:
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Gamelan (ending) (note: shn compressed)
Tapani Siirtola - Dark Side of Pirk

Gensym:
Abenza - Vikings in the Sky
Peter Griffin - University[/url:18k6vef]

McCallavre:
[url=http://vegastrike.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/*checkout*/vegastrike/trunk/data4.x/music/terranpeace.ogg?revision=11540]Ken Suguro - Terran peaceful track 1
Espen Gätzschmann and Tore Aune Fjellstad - Under a Red Sky

Much Rejoicing:
András Barják - Shake Yer Rootz

Pohjankaupunki:
Jouni Airaksinen - Cold Tectonics
Ben Houge - Kergahn's Castle (click "Download to computer")
Larry Groce - The Screaming Cowboy

Sanctuary Dome:
Mark Morgan - Morte Theme (Alternate)

Sargassum:
Joakim Back - Remnants
Mark Morgan - Neutral Ending
Falik - Black Llama

Unspeakable Horror:
Spencer Nilsen - Deception

Wave Manifold:
Zaydana - Machina
Joakim Back - Lucidity


Sources to get more of the same from, in case you're interested:
Abenza: http://www.archive.org/details/cube
Ben Houge: http://downloads.khinsider.com/game-sou ... s-magick-o
Godspeed You! Black Emperor: http://www.archive.org/details/GodspeedYouBlackEmperor
Joakim Back: http://www.vuni.net/mp3/
Mark Morgan: http://web.archive.org/web/200612052154 ... soundtrack
Pangenix: http://www.pangenix.com/listen.htm
Precursors (Casey Munroe, Riku Nuottajärvi, Espen Gätzschmann, Tore Aune Fjellstad, András Barják, et al): http://www.medievalfuture.com/precursors/
Schlock!: http://www.archive.org/details/Schlock1
Spencer Nilsen: http://web8.orcaserver.de/ecco/music/os ... /index.php
Tapani Siirtola: http://www.mikseri.net/artists/tabulius.37335.php
Vegastrike composers (Peter Griffin, Ken Suguro, Falik, et al): http://vegastrike.svn.sourceforge.net/v ... 4.x/music/ (click on the revision numbers to download songs)

So far, my favourite track from these, in terms of evocativeness, is Cold Tectonics. I don't think I will ever get around to researching and thinking about how you actually would do mining on the seabed, but this track makes it easy to imagine how it would be like:

You're contorted in a cramped space inside a rusty, ritchety mining machine. It's older than your grandfather, the only way it's still working is that it's been kept patched up for decades, with equipment whose only constant is cheapness. There's a kilometer of cold, heavy water above you, waiting to drown you the moment the miner's hull finally gives in. Your only lifeline to the outside world is a thin coaxial cable, as there's basically no other way to communicate over seawater that's pitch black with the muck you're raising from the seafloor. You're listening to every sound the machine makes, because you know that if anything important breaks, there's a fair chance you'll never make it out alive. You're in a place where no man is supposed to go, and you're there all alone. You try to pretend otherwise, of course, joking with your colleagues over the wire, but you're doing this ten hours a day, six hours a week, and there's only so much that you can talk about... even if all you want to do is talk...

[Ari Rahikkala]

Reading about the Microvision today I decided to get back to this list and check it for broken links, and well, there were plenty of them. I think I fixed all of them, though. Funny how much linkrot can occur in just a couple of months...

... er... has anyone actually listened to any of this stuff?

[Kaiser Hasan I]

I have a number of Emperor albums. The rest I haven't heard of, but am looking for now.

[Ari Rahikkala]

I wish there were more Finnish Shirithians around. At least then someone could listen to the songs for Pohjankaupunki, and get the reference .

[Jacobus Loki]

I wish there were more Finnish Shirithians

Can we get more? Is there a translator program?