Spotify Soundtrack Playlists, A collection of playlists on Spotify filled with great music. Options

[DampeS8N]

I've been building these playlists on Spotify for the last few weeks and using them with great success in my games. They each fit different situations and I feel perfectly represent the spirit of the game. I've opened one up to be collaborative, so you should feel free to include music you think fits in with the game there, and I'll go through it and add them to the other playlists to keep them tidy. If enough people express interest in helping me keep the lists curated, I'd be glad to open them all up to collaboration and to include lists you've created yourselves in the list too.

The Lists

Collaborative: Shadowrun - Candidates

And here are the playlists, in no particular order.

• Shadowrun - All (almost) This one is missing some of the other lists, the reasons should be kind of obvious.
• Shadowrun - Battle
• Shadowrun - Sprawl Anything you'd hear on the street, anywhere.
• Shadowrun - Wasteland Drone, industrial, sparse.
• Shadowrun - Astral Middle-eastern, with a modern electro twist.
• Shadowrun - Matrix - Trance
• Shadowrun - Matrix - Chiptunes
• Shadowrun - Jazz Think Bladerunner...
• Shadowrun - Upbeat Club
• Shadowrun - Downbeat Club
• Shadowrun - Dubstep Club
• Shadowrun - Dark A mix of dark brooding black metal and such.
• Shadowrun - Troll A playlist of covers or songs with the same name as "Never Gonna Give You Up".
• Shadowrun - Middle East Not one of mine, but a great list for runs in that region of the world.
• Adarael's An-Teng Underground
• Adarael's Project CORONA - Eurozone For when the players were touring London and Paris, dealing with the scum of the former EU.
• Adarael's Project CORONA - Delta Clinics and Black Laboratories For secret locations, scientific research, and other "underground" investigations.
• Adarael's Project CORONA - Dark Skies For those late nights on stakeouts, waiting for the right moment to sight your target and take him out.

Let me know what you all think. Especially if you feel certain songs don't fit the mood in your opinion and why, or have an idea for a new playlist I should make and include. Or just that I should expand on one of these next because you feel it is too light. I want these playlists to be helpful to everyone.

Usage Tips

The best way to use these playlists is to subscribe to them from Spotify, pick one that fits the overall mood of your game - or that session - and then right-click and select "set as current playlist" to switch when needed. This won't interrupt the song you are currently listening to, but will swap playlists when it is over. With good timing, you can shift the tone of your narrative at the same moment that the playlists switch, and the effect is not unlike music in movies. I've personally used this while GMing a game featuring a character that occasionally slips into a trance at random moments only to be astrally projected to locations to consult with her Talismonger religious leader. I use the Astral playlist for this, and the trance/mid-east/indian vibes of the songs in it set the mood instantly; to the point where the music is now the signal ahead of the narrative and everyone knows what's about to happen before I've said anything.