Music of The Sixth Age, Because It's Not The Future Without Synth, Damnit! Options

[Lionhearted]

Now I wish I had decent speakers.

Headphones usually give better sound unless your room is nice and authustic

[CanRay]

Headphones usually give better sound unless your room is nice and authustic

I should correct that statement...

I wish I had better speakers for the computer I use at my gaming table.

[Lionhearted]

I don't have speakers at my computer (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) I got a 75$ headset

[CanRay]

I need to hear my group, and they need to hear this music!

[Udoshi]

I don't have speakers at my computer (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) I got a 75$ headset

Thanks to that comment, I've noticed that some nice headphones that I've had my eye on for a while are on sale on amazon now. Thanks!

[Lionhearted]

Steelseries Siberia V2, gaming headsets are the best. Not only are they multi-purpose, but also durable, comfortable for extended periods of time and usually have kickass sound quality, If I bought something like KOSS I would pay double and just get the headphones...

[shadowsintheclou...]

Synth is all fine and good, but where's the love for orc-thrash, hobgoblin death metal, trollcore, etc?

Our sessions tend to take us to a lot of seedier bars. The kind with chain link fencing surrounding the musicians. Here's just a few examples of what gets played during gaming sessions with my metal loving friends and me. I like attaching a meta-type to what I think the voice sounds like

Abigail Williams or Dissection. Definitely hobgoblin.

Bloodbath. Nobody sounds more like a 400lb troll than Mikael Akerfeldt.

At The Gates. Tough to get a singer that really sounds orc-like what with their tusks and all, but most Swedish melodic death metal does the trick.

And an honorable mention to Nekrogoblikon for actually dressing like goblins.

[Lionhearted]

At The Gates. Tough to get a singer that really sounds orc-like what with their tusks and all, but most Swedish melodic death metal does the trick.

They may sound rough but a lot of them are like really nice people...
You'd be amazed who you can meet at the pub here (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[Lionhearted]

Who said shamans can't be metal? (that is indeed a flute solo)

[Umidori]

Excellent stuff. Keep it coming!

So glad I thought to start this thread. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

~Umi

[Lionhearted]

Why does it do that sometimes...

[Udoshi]

Uplink OST

Of course, there's more to cyberpunk than just rainslick streets and blood in the gutters. For those of a more cerebral bent, the splendors of the digital world await those with the tech and skills to find them. If you've ever played Uplink, the criminally unknown elite hacking "simulation" game, you've had a taste of what it means to deck with the best, or die trying. And again, if you haven't played it, get cracking!

Unfortunately I don't have any info on the specific artists that pulled together for the Uplink soundtrack, but I do have incredibly fond memories of carefully bouncing and routing my connection through a tangled net of dozens of compromised systems across the entire span of the globe, methodically bypassing a corporate research facility's firewall, sweating nervously as I tried to creep by a SecHack admin, then scrambling to grab the paydata I broke in to nab while alarms are blaring and I'm slowly watching my guard programs tick down the time until I'm traced and toast. If you want to be able to feel the code slipping through your fingers, this is the stuff to listen to.

You know what? This reminded me of another soundtrack for another great game about hacking the gibson(and then some). Tron 2.0 had some thematic music too. I think the quality may have suffered a bit in the transition to youtube though.

[Tymeaus Jalynsfe...]

Who said shamans can't be metal? (that is indeed a flute solo)

That is awesome stuff Lionhearted... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[Lionhearted]

If it weren't for the hassle of finding and linking stuff with my current setup I could present you with all kind of weird and wonderful music (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[crazyconscript]

I know its written with Cyberpunk 2077 in mind, but I kind of like this for shadowrun City of Night

Gav does quite a bit of videogame/movie themed music. Or whatever takes else his fancy. A lot of the songs have videos to go with them too, look on either the Escapist or his Youtube channel

[Shemhazai]

I'm fond of these two tracks by Periphery. This youtube video is of Erised and Epoch played back to back.

PERIPHERY | Erised (Lyric Video) ᴴᴰ

[SpellBinder]

I know its written with Cyberpunk 2077 in mind, but I kind of like this for shadowrun City of Night

Gav does quite a bit of videogame/movie themed music. Or whatever takes else his fancy. A lot of the songs have videos to go with them too, look on either the Escapist or his Youtube channel

The only thing that didn't feel well with me on that song was the singer's voice. Music's fine, lyrics're fine, but maybe I was expecting something a little... grungier... Like at the bridge. Fits well for the developer hated technomancers.

[Curator]

i think this si cool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ET70ZqOAFW0

[MADness]

As if cyberpunk just have a single soundtrack...
Also NIN was good enough for... DOOM(?) it was one of those old shooters, just look at the ammo boxes.

It was Quake actually. NIN had their logo on the ammo for the nailgun. (Always wondered about hardware stores in Shadowrun. Maybe I will add them to my fan work about normal people)

EnGrave is a fairly solid ambient choice. Maybe a little more current then cyberpunk, but they could work.

Becoming the Archetype, Demon Hunter, and Haste the Day are all solid hard bands. (I rarely use genres, they get needlessly detailed imho). Maybe some troll metal bands picked up an elf as an extra vocalist? Also, Project 86's album Drawing Black Lines sounds exactly like what I think a pro-humanis hard rock band would sound like.

Aren't we forgetting the hip-hop/rap genres? Prettysure they have some play in the Sixth World.

[SpellBinder]

For some reason I am envisioning African-American orks in Free Cal being the biggest proponents and producers of rap music in the 6th world...

[MADness]

Isn't that where Krime Time is based?

[WhiskeyJohnny]

A Tribe Called Red would likely be suitable for running in the NAN.

[Koekepan]

What about just composing some music? There's a lot of tools to be found for the aspiring composer.

In fact, we could even share some of our work on here.

Of course, you can go and find old System Shock music instead ...

[Shemhazai]

The soundtrack to Swordfish might work.

Here's an example.

Swordfish Soundtrack

[hermit]

What about just composing some music? There's a lot of tools to be found for the aspiring composer.

There's the OST to Shadowrun Returns and SRR Dragonfall, there's refurbished version sof the SNES soundtrack, and with Shadowrun Online there'll be another batch of music specifically made with the 6th world in mind (theoretically at least, but Sam Powell's stuff is pretty good).