Music of Straylight
Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 4:49 pm
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...
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...
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