Music for Shadowrun |
Music for Shadowrun |
Oct 23 2006, 04:53 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 24 Joined: 4-October 06 Member No.: 9,538 |
hi all im new to the forums and starting my first shadowrun game soon, and i am looking to see if any of you have any suggestions for music for shadowrun games? ive been looking at alot of yoko kano lately but beyond that ive been coming up dry...
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Oct 23 2006, 05:09 AM
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Moving Target Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 573 Joined: 23-July 03 From: outside America Member No.: 5,015 |
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Oct 23 2006, 01:20 PM
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ghostrider Group: Retired Admins Posts: 4,196 Joined: 16-May 04 Member No.: 6,333 |
Welcome to Dumpshock, whitezero.
For my own games, I prefer stuff like the Fight Club soundtrack, Chemical Brothers (not all songs, but some of it works), Prodigy, and mostly a bunch of random house and trance stuff. Some industrial for fight scenes. To me, it's not the specific song that's important, so much as the feel of the music overall. I generally keep it pretty low key in the background also. I'm not familiar with Yoko Kano. What kind of stuff is it? |
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Oct 23 2006, 01:56 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 22 Joined: 26-August 06 Member No.: 9,229 |
hi,
i suggest you to design sound track for your game. Ok example: I'm writing a whole campaign for the aztlan/Tenochtitlan scene. So basicaly i need music with a strong aztlan flavour. I then decided to dive deep inside undergroung rap/hip-hop aztlan bands (it does exist indeed, just make a net search with the "aztlan" keyword and brace yourself for a culture shock....a yes BTW i'm french) So i downloaded (legal-free) music, hip/hop/rap/techno from the mexican scene, mixed it with traditional music tracks and added some sound tracks ( wave or mp3 files coming from a sound libraries downloaded from the net for..free) like chopper passing by, airport noise, crowd walking ,police screaming, far gun shot, industrial, gunshot and so on. pump it into your media player and you can choose what ever sound you want while you'r gammasterizing. This method gives you total control on the soundtrack underlaying your scene in the same way a film soundtrack tamper with the audience. You can even underlay your sound track with a heartbeat sound pulsing around 75 bpm, deep bass almost inaudible. Better to secretly pumpup the volume on your PC and play a fierce lion growl sound LOUD, than : "ok perception test, TN 2....any success ? everybody hear a strange loud growl..... overwhelming effect, check for heart weakness befor doind them this trick. a little work with the computer and....technomagic in action |
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Oct 23 2006, 01:57 PM
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Dragon Group: Members Posts: 4,589 Joined: 28-November 05 Member No.: 8,019 |
Yoko Kanno is the greatest composer alive. No, seriously, she composes all the best anime soundtracks, including Cowboy Bebop, Escaflowne, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, and Macross Plus. As far as cyberpunk stuff, I'd recommend Information High from Macross Plus for when you mobilize the Black IC.
As for what kind of stuff she makes, she's the queen of eclecticism. She makes everything. Does she make stuff outside of anime soundtracks? What CD's should I buy/pirate? |
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Oct 23 2006, 03:08 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 153 Joined: 7-November 04 Member No.: 6,811 |
One trick that seems to work well for me: As the intensity of the moment goes up, the mood music should become quieter and more melodic.
Thanks in large part to Platoon, a gunfight with Barber's "Quartet for Strings" playing in the background is a lot more evocative than any heavy metal I can throw at it. Brutal torture and beatings usually call for Gilbert and Sullivan. if only because the absurd contrast typically causes people to stop and feel a bit more uncomfortable about the situation. |
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Oct 24 2006, 01:49 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 96 Joined: 13-April 06 Member No.: 8,459 |
80's music. Any other type of music is a betrayal to cyber punk, and will ruin your game if you play it.
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Oct 24 2006, 03:06 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 79 Joined: 18-September 05 Member No.: 7,758 |
get the soundtracks for Hack Sign, and Heat Guy J. They both have a good mix of techno, low key instrumental, choiral, and ren-fair-fantasyesque tracks.
Heat Guy J is a little better in my opinion. Very Shadowrunny, and good for action. I would also recommend the three GITS:SAC soundtracks, and the soundtracks for Sneakers, Conspiracy Theory, Fargo, and Blade Runner. Especially Blade Runner. If you can cherry pick through the Bebop stuff you could get a couple of good albums worth of music, but honestly I think a lot of it isn't a good match for SR - good though it may be. Portishead's Portishead CD is good (kind of a droning bluesy sound), and Vangelis did a CD called City Music (I think) that was ambient city sounds over very soft music, which I also recommend. I once played in a CP2020 game where the hostess set the dmx music channel to Salsa, and kept it there. It worked, it really really worked. A couple of years later, when I saw the movie Mean Guns, I couldn't stop laughing that someone else thought to mix Salsa with megaviolence. |
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Oct 24 2006, 01:13 PM
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Incertum est quo loco te mors expectet; Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 6,546 Joined: 24-October 03 From: DeeCee, U.S. Member No.: 5,760 |
As an aside, I just recently found the soundtrack for Silent Hill (the computer game). A lot of it is better for horror, but much has an off-beat industrial background sound to it (industrial as in the sound of factories and chains, not industrial the style of music). In general I try to avoid music with lyrics as background music because it's distracting, so computer game soundtracks really are the place to go.
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Oct 24 2006, 01:30 PM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,006 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
Any of the Silent Hill soundtracks are good, but as they go on there are more tracks you'll want to skip (more vocals, etc.).
Decoded Feedback has some good tracks for SR. ~J |
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Oct 25 2006, 07:25 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 112 Joined: 27-January 06 Member No.: 8,205 |
Merzbow!!!
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Oct 25 2006, 08:14 PM
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ghostrider Group: Retired Admins Posts: 4,196 Joined: 16-May 04 Member No.: 6,333 |
Then I am familiar with some of her stuff. CB has the best music. Ever. |
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Oct 25 2006, 10:42 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,286 Joined: 24-May 05 From: A 10x10 room with an orc and a treasure chest Member No.: 7,409 |
Thievery Corporation
Funker Vogt Pitchshifter Crystal Method |
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Oct 27 2006, 05:42 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 24 Joined: 4-October 06 Member No.: 9,538 |
thanks to everyone so far but lets keep the ideas coming...has anyone ever heard goblin? they did the soundtrack to suspiria and might have done the original dawn of the dead anyway i likd the comment about 80s music and how it will ruin my game if i dont stick to it...know any other good 80s synth, melodic epic soundtracky stuff?
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Oct 27 2006, 06:04 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 749 Joined: 28-July 05 Member No.: 7,526 |
Underworld - Rez, Cowgirl
Those are two must have tracks for matrix work. All your hacking dice will come up 1's if you don't play one of these two tracks. I swear to god, black ic will pop up and kill you next time youre surfing for porn if you don't get these tracks. ps. im serious. |
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Oct 27 2006, 06:09 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 749 Joined: 28-July 05 Member No.: 7,526 |
Also, 80s synth without the 80s is called Electro nowadays. go to your digital music download store of choice and check out some samples, find an artist you like.
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Oct 27 2006, 06:18 PM
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Shadow Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 3,737 Joined: 2-June 06 From: Secret Tunnels under the UK (South West) Member No.: 8,636 |
*shudder* Eighties music. The game is set seventy years in the future and you want a soundtrack from twenty years ago! But more usefully, there's a site called www.magnatune.com that has very cheap and little known music. A lot of it's crap, but there is some very good music tucked away in there (usually under World / Ethnic ), some particularly good for any Middle Eastern or Indian runs. The main advantage though, is that a lot of it is instrumental only. Words often detract from the mood. Soundtracks, you can keep an eye out for anything Eric Senna was involved with. He did the soundtrack to the film Wasabi which has some very good j-pop on it. Just great for the Renraku mall. ;) |
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Oct 27 2006, 06:51 PM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,006 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
Jazz is still in, and I refuse to believe your lies when you say that the eighties were 20 years ago. ~J |
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Oct 28 2006, 01:57 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 903 Joined: 7-February 03 Member No.: 4,025 |
I'm loathe to start another thread on this, so I'll put my request in here:
I'm looking for something a little more appropriate to a Cyberpirates campaign, myself. Anybody refer me to a little techno-afro-indies? futuristic-mystic-calypso? steel smart-drums? latino-industrial sun-drenched cyber tunes? |
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Oct 28 2006, 02:07 PM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,006 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
Dub/dubtronica.
~J |
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Oct 28 2006, 02:18 PM
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Incertum est quo loco te mors expectet; Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 6,546 Joined: 24-October 03 From: DeeCee, U.S. Member No.: 5,760 |
I live next to Kage. "80's" music is only called that because 80 is an emoticon for a guy with sunglasses singing. See? Because it's all awesome. My two year old has begun singing along to Anarchy in the UK. Talking Heads rock my world. Go 80's all the way. You truly feel the spirit of Shadowrun.
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Oct 28 2006, 04:25 PM
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ghostrider Group: Retired Admins Posts: 4,196 Joined: 16-May 04 Member No.: 6,333 |
Go to www.pandora.com and tell it "Dust Brothers". I have yet to thumbs-down a track that it plays on that station, and most of it would fit my games pretty well.
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Oct 28 2006, 04:46 PM
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Prime Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,577 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Gwynedd Valley PA Member No.: 1,221 |
besides all the tech and anime already kcicked around, we use lots of Celtic and Celtic rock stuff. Clannad, Corrs, etc
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Oct 28 2006, 09:10 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 6 Joined: 25-October 06 Member No.: 9,708 |
The Crow Soundtrack
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Oct 28 2006, 10:07 PM
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Shadow Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 3,737 Joined: 2-June 06 From: Secret Tunnels under the UK (South West) Member No.: 8,636 |
Wow! That works! Great site. Good initial suggestion for music selection. Hadn't heard of either before! Ever in the South West of the UK, you have a standing invitation to my game! :) -K. |
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