Arenamontanus wrote:

Philip Glass is another good background source, "The Fog of War" and "A Descent into the Maelstrom" might be useful for EP.

The soundtrack of [u]Koyaanisqatsi[/u] is excellent background music, also.

As mentionned in the Dead Space 2 thread, the soundtracks of those two games are just perfect for EP's horror and sci-fi angle Event Horizon's soundtrack, too Twinkle twinkle little star. How I wonder what you are... that songs really give me the creeps, now!

I love to use the Ghost In the Shell Stand Alone Complex soundtracks by Yoko Kanno as well as the Mass Effect and all the Mass Effect 2 soundtracks for our game sessions. I am wondering however, how do you use music. Do you select one song for a scene and put it on repeat? I personally arrange one playlist for a session that does have fitting music that flows nicely as I don't usually find the time in-session to manually switch songs while running the game.

Used for a club: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xk67DufWJr0 Used for an async's singing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUTcLgLXzSM Used for the ambient environment in Blackrock: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuNOnFa-q3Y

Some examples of Harry Gregson-Williams to further elaborate on the above post: - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGMP93aBSes - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmLAW1cSo3U - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPGUP867B9o - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmWYJHT4vTE

For scenes of tension and horror there are a lot of excellent sounds available in the neoclassical and martial industrial genres, which tend to incorporate the orchestral power of film score with electronic and avant garde elements. The Protagonist is an act fairly representative of both genres... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZffJUvMnu9Q http://www.last.fm/music/The+Protagonist

I go with The Kovenant's SETI album for inspiration. I'm not sure how functional it is as a soundtrack, but it's eerily resonant with Eclipse Phase in places. Keepers Of The Garden: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48IWzAWzxB0

Just wanted to add: Memmaker - How to Enlist in a Robot uprising - is awesome industrial/electronic music. Section 3 of the adventure in the quick start rules is titled after song #6 on the album "Get your Ass to Mars." I'd say thats a pretty strong endorsement. Alot of the music on the list has proven difficult to find however.

Ahh you're right; thats probably even a clip from the movie. I failed my old earth history roll :) My total recall lore obviously needs updating. Awesome song though. Having some trouble finding some of the other stuff mentioned in sunward and gatecrashing. Pandora's black box for instance keeps pointing me towards some documentary about 9/11. EDIT: Nevermind, problem was I was searching for black BOX when it should be black BOOK

I like soundtrack albums: Tron Legacy is good if you want some upbeat electronic, The Dark Knight soundtrack is a mix of orchestral with some beats and distorted electronic sounds - it's great. The Bourne film soundtracks are good too, as they also fuse orchestra with synths

Skinny Puppy , Scott Walker, Amon Tobin, all these are emotive enough when on the ground.

Whereas I'd always pictured the octopus uplift band to be called Infinite Eight.

Decivre wrote:

Tyrnis wrote:

Whereas I'd always pictured the octopus uplift band to be called Infinite Eight.

Nice! Their logo could be an overlapping 8 and infinity symbol that looks like some sort of flower. It might even be made up from tentacles originating at the center. This idea: stolen!

It's not made from tentacles, alas, but someone on deviantart drew a logo for an Infinite Eight crime syndicate that otherwise fits the bill: http://bad-people.deviantart.com/art/Infinite-Eight-Logo-248818843

Extrasolar Angel wrote:

I highly recommend Richard deHove. It is a rather obscure artist, but I find his tracks fit well the atmosphere of space exploration, the vastness of space with its celestial objects and occasional creepiness of TITAN's and exotic xeno lifeforms. Youtube has a mix of his tracks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEfpiW1x2x0&feature=list_related&playnext...

Thank you for sharing this. I'm digging it.

I find that lyrics draws attention from the game to the music. Its hard to listen to game members (or for them to speak) if the music is too overpowering. Making music that draws to much attention a detriment rather than a boon. Thus I recommend avoiding music with lyrics in favor of instrumental theme music. Though exceptions to the rule exist and even instrumental music can be overpowering sometimes.

I don't know if this was mentioned somewhere but just stumbled upon the article, and the music sounds very appropriate for EP: http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2012/03/30/laurie_spiegel_s_sediment... Also I'd suggest the Original Soundtrack for the game Quake, by Trent Reznor.

Maybe something with Frippertronics in it? The Fripp and Eno collaborations there is a track called even spaces http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYvWTx6hQuk And they had a few records in the 70's. Though I could for some reason i could see it all being retro jazz like 1920's era stuff. Ragtime and flapper music! that would some how be more disturbing

I'm actually building an Eclipse Phase-themed soundtrack at this moment, just in case the opportunity to run EP for my group ever avails itself. I wanted to evoke a 70s/80s sci-fi vibe through the music, and a lot of the suggestions so far have been a fantastic fit for that (especially the Mass Effect and Tron: Legacy soundtracks) but a few others that I'm using are: Sleepy Eyes of Death - well, everything of theirs The band broke up but their body of work is amazing. I'm especially in awe of their final album, Towards a Damaged Horizon. Retro sci fi meets modern post-rock. With vocoders! "Stay Human" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xltQtH8L1-E Polinski - Labyrinths Some fantastic and weird electronic dance(?) music from one of the guys from 65daysofstatic (who are excellent in their own right - they re-scored Silent Running!). It has a retro sci-fi sound - I can definitely hear some John Carpenter influence in places - but it has a pretty aggressive modernity to it. It's pretty much the sound I'm going for. Labyrinths promo mix - http://vimeo.com/27427841 (I love the visuals) "Stitches" - http://vimeo.com/30763545 (I have to admit this is the song I'm building the entire soundtrack around, and the video game motif of the video is badass) Midnight Conspiracy & CENOB1TE - "The Eye" Aggressive dance music with an obvious thematic tie to Firewall. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmuYypeLaOk

Mechanoreceptor makes some great stuff on SoundCloud that I've been using as a soundtrack for my games.

A couple of other suggestions: - Pitch Black (http://www.pitchblack.co.nz/) : A New Zealand electronic duo. Some good beats, and a few tracks with a creeping feel to them, especially ones such as "Urbanoia" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYytDsyPuqg) - David Hykes : An amazingly accomplished throat-singer who's put out several albums. Some of his stuff has appeared in movies; "Rainbow Voice" (http://youtu.be/mc5lwpnoOmQ) has been featured in [i]Blade[/i], [i]Baraka[/i], and most recently [i]Prometheus[/i] (barely audible during the opening archaeological scene). Another one of his pieces, "Arc Descents" (http://youtu.be/E1nBJB8hwKE) is equally mind-blowing and evocative of both awe and terror. - Michael Stearns : Composer and arranger of various soundtracks, including [i]Baraka[/i], which is full of various music from around the world (very evocative of the shattered remnants of multicultural transhumanity post-Fall, including "Host of the Seraphim" (http://youtu.be/HkX1Ae_7WUc) by Dead Can Dance, which was also used in the film [i]The Mist[/i] (and on that side note, anything with Lisa Gerrard is great). - Others: Marc Streitenfeld's score for [i]Prometheus[/i] (and the movie has a great Gatecrashing feel to it); Graeme Revell's [i]Pitch Black[/i] soundtrack (the Vin Diesel movie this time, not the NZ electronic group); Eliot Goldenthal's music for [i]Alien 3[/i] as well as some parts of [i]Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within[/i] (especially with its Reclaimer feel); music from the show [i]Farscape[/i] (for that weird-universe-indeed feeling).

This soundtrack just got released the other day. The download link isn't working right now for me, but it is worth checking out. http://www.blackmesasource.com/soundtrack.html

This excellent cover for Rammstein's Engel is a a good creepy piece, interestingly quite fitting the issues faces by post-biological civilizations in EP universe Only when the clouds fall asleep One can see us at the sky We have fear and we are alone God knows I do not want to be an angel They live behind sunshine Seperated from us endlessly wide They have to cling to the stars (real tight) So that they don’t fall from the sky The imagery in the video is suitable as well http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_qUR8-a0xI&feature=related

The Portal 2 Soundtrack might still be free to download in its entirety. I highly recommend that for EP.

My newest discovery is Com Truise, the music artist offers both sounds inspiring visions of high-tech orbital cities and interplanetary travel as well as disturbing post-human experiments and victims of TITAN's Flightwave-good track for visiting space stations, space travel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xlI3dIHMOI Yxses, Post-human experimentation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWBqv7Mtg1g Futureworld, mission to explore TITAN remnants gone wrong http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zexO87JTBnI