Dayhawk
Jun 5 2007, 12:29 AM
In my next game the runners must find someone who is at a rave.
I decided to put my surround sound to the test and am looking to find some music which would fit a ork/troll techno rave.
Any suggestions?
WearzManySkins
Jun 5 2007, 01:49 AM
Ok here is one for you..
Slough Feg
http://www.metal-archives.com/release.php?id=19538http://www.grande-rock.com/slough_feg.htmThe rest involves bagpipes, Didjeridus and rock bands.
WMS
It's all cyclic, so 40's Big Band.
Aaron
Jun 5 2007, 04:00 AM
Try some Atari Teenage Riot or Vampire Mooose.
WearzManySkins
Jun 5 2007, 04:26 AM
QUOTE (kzt) |
It's all cyclic, so 40's Big Band. |
Oh really when have big pipe organs and harpsichord music came back as part of your so called cycle.?
Lets not forget Tuba tunes and accordions also.
WMS
odinson
Jun 5 2007, 06:12 AM
QUOTE (WearzManySkins) |
QUOTE (kzt @ Jun 4 2007, 10:12 PM) | It's all cyclic, so 40's Big Band. |
Oh really when have big pipe organs and harpsichord music came back as part of your so called cycle.? Lets not forget Tuba tunes and accordions also. WMS |
When did accordions go out of style?
QUOTE (odinson) |
When did accordions go out of style? |
I hear they are popular deer hunting accessories in some places. . . .
Casper
Jun 5 2007, 06:30 AM
You could do it without using the word Rave. I coudl imagine that there would still be a thing similiar to dance clubs in the future so you basicly can have it be anythign you really want. Disco could be in a come back.
But if you want music during game then anything trance would do. But if you want somethign edgy I vote for anything by trick for that wierd dark touch.
odinson
Jun 5 2007, 07:01 AM
Try any industrial music it's dark and fits the setting quite well. Go with stuff from the 80's though, most of the new stuff is kinda getting influenced by techno and dancy music.
Didn't raves start as big outside dances kinda like all night festivals with crappy music.
laughingowl
Jun 5 2007, 07:04 AM
Sorry wrong forums but 2 karma to whomever can place it:
Polka will Never DIE!
Kazum
Jun 5 2007, 08:42 AM
i just found out, that Nine Inch Nails and Nirvana UNPLUGGED go really well as supporting sound for a run..
I've got there a track called "Quake" by NIN, which is really long and really creepy. Maybe it is out of a Quake-Game, dunno, but it workds and makes your players get reaaaaally nervous
Abstruse
Jun 5 2007, 10:39 AM
Laughingowl, do I know you from another set of forums? BTW, still haven't heard anything about the status of the TV series other than the DVDs are available for pre-order. The only war cry I like better is "I DON'T BELIEVE IN FAIRIES!"
Back on topic...yeah, industrial or metal...stuff that's real bottom heavy with guttural vocals. Track down some German bands especially. Zeromancer pops into my head, but I'm not sure if that's exactly what I'm talking about...they may be a touch too melodic...
The Abstruse One
Aaron
Jun 5 2007, 12:08 PM
QUOTE (Kazum) |
i just found out, that Nine Inch Nails and Nirvana UNPLUGGED go really well as supporting sound for a run.. |
Also KMFDM and My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult. And maybe Seatbelts.
Aaron
Jun 5 2007, 12:10 PM
Actually, we'll be playing Shadowrun tonight (CDT = UTC-5), and you can hear what we're listening to if you visit
http://pavao.org/radio and click the link.
Kazum
Jun 5 2007, 01:03 PM
QUOTE (Aaron) |
QUOTE (Kazum @ Jun 5 2007, 03:42 AM) | i just found out, that Nine Inch Nails and Nirvana UNPLUGGED go really well as supporting sound for a run.. |
Also KMFDM and My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult. And maybe Seatbelts.
|
btw: Are you German? Cause
Kein Mitleid für die Mehrheit (KMFDM) isn't very popular even here in germany, so i can't imagine, that it is in another country.
Aaron
Jun 5 2007, 01:56 PM
QUOTE (Kazum @ Jun 5 2007, 08:03 AM) |
Kein Mitleid für die Mehrheit (KMFDM) isn't very popular even here in germany, so i can't imagine, that it is in another country. |
They're an older group, sure, but a lot of their themes are rather Shadowrunny, and their style is compatible with "running gunfight." I included them because I was looking at music that I think is good for a Shadowrun game, rather than for popularity. Vampire Mooose, for example, could hardly be called popular, but would make for great goblin rock.
As to wo ich wohne, I think I actually answered that question before you asked. =i)
odinson
Jun 5 2007, 04:26 PM
QUOTE (Kazum) |
QUOTE (Aaron @ Jun 5 2007, 07:08 AM) | QUOTE (Kazum @ Jun 5 2007, 03:42 AM) | i just found out, that Nine Inch Nails and Nirvana UNPLUGGED go really well as supporting sound for a run.. |
Also KMFDM and My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult. And maybe Seatbelts.
|
btw: Are you German? Cause
Kein Mitleid für die Mehrheit (KMFDM) isn't very popular even here in germany, so i can't imagine, that it is in another country.
|
Out here in Canada KMFDM is pretty popular. I've listened to them for years as have just about all of my friends.
Unarmed
Jun 5 2007, 04:46 PM
QUOTE (odinson) |
QUOTE (Kazum @ Jun 5 2007, 08:03 AM) | QUOTE (Aaron @ Jun 5 2007, 07:08 AM) | QUOTE (Kazum @ Jun 5 2007, 03:42 AM) | i just found out, that Nine Inch Nails and Nirvana UNPLUGGED go really well as supporting sound for a run.. |
Also KMFDM and My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult. And maybe Seatbelts.
|
btw: Are you German? Cause
Kein Mitleid für die Mehrheit (KMFDM) isn't very popular even here in germany, so i can't imagine, that it is in another country.
|
Out here in Canada KMFDM is pretty popular. I've listened to them for years as have just about all of my friends.
|
Yeah, Canada is weird like that. I'm a bit surprised that they're not really that popular in Germany. I guess that they are quite a bit past their prime.
Abstruse
Jun 5 2007, 05:17 PM
They're popular here in the US among rivetheads. They're a staple of the 80s industrial/goth/EBM night at the local goth club as well as Rammstein and NIN. We're Americans, what do you expect? Give me points for knowing Zeromancer

The Abstruse One
Demon_Bob
Jun 5 2007, 06:07 PM
Popularity of a music group depends upon the interests of the society.
Country music may be liked in predominately a small town where 20km away Heavy Metal is popular. Small cells of individuals may of course differ from the norm.
ElFenrir
Jun 5 2007, 07:03 PM
Check out Turmion Kätilöt. They have some killer industrial-metal type stuff that could work.

The Deathstars(from Sweden), have some videos that could be very Shadowrun-like, as well as playing industrial-metal. They might be on Youtube.
Catharz Godfoot
Jun 5 2007, 07:08 PM
In Shadowrun 2070 everyone will be listening to Billy Idol's "Cyberpunk."
Failing at that, there's always Mirrorshades radio (http://radio.crashnet.org:8000/), or the Cybernetic Broadcasting System (http://209.9.238.16/cbs192.mp3 -- Warning: Electro).
odinson
Jun 5 2007, 07:13 PM
QUOTE (Kazum) |
QUOTE (Aaron @ Jun 5 2007, 07:08 AM) | QUOTE (Kazum @ Jun 5 2007, 03:42 AM) | i just found out, that Nine Inch Nails and Nirvana UNPLUGGED go really well as supporting sound for a run.. |
Also KMFDM and My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult. And maybe Seatbelts.
|
btw: Are you German? Cause
Kein Mitleid für die Mehrheit (KMFDM) isn't very popular even here in germany, so i can't imagine, that it is in another country.
|
Wasn't David Hasselhoff popular in Germany? I can't imagine him being popular anywhere.
stevebugge
Jun 5 2007, 07:54 PM
The ghosts of the Buggles will possess an amatuer band just long enough to record "Simsense Killed the Video Star" and it will be a huge hit world wide.
Lagomorph
Jun 5 2007, 08:20 PM
It was mentioned farther up in the thread, but the Quake and Quake II sound tracks are very good for ambient hard sounding music.
Quake's sound track was done by NIN.
Quake II's sound track was done by Sonic Mayhem. You could find samples of their stuff on Sonicmayhem.com.
Whipstitch
Jun 5 2007, 08:31 PM
Rather than techno, I'd suggest something more along the lines of industrial (ministry type stuff), moshcore (Throwdown, Carpathian, Bury Your Dead) or "Blues for the Red Sun" era Kyuss. When orks and trolls party, it's always fun to play up the sheer physicality of the event. In other words, there should be moshing

After all, regardless of whether orks and trolls are truly violent individuals, there's plenty of stuff in the book that suggests they do take pride in their pure physical toughness, and are generally a bit proud of the fact that by and large, the other metas simply can't hang with a them. The event should be a bit intimidating to the smaller metas even if the crowd is friendly. Besides, inflicting heavy stun on a player because they got too close to a headbanging troll is just plain fun.
Demon_Bob
Jun 5 2007, 08:56 PM
Why do I envision a Troll childhood game involving beating each other with sticks, or jumping off buildings to see how big a dent in the pavement you can make?
Unarmed
Jun 5 2007, 09:02 PM
QUOTE (Whipstitch) |
moshcore (Throwdown, Carpathian, Bury Your Dead) |
I always kinda imagined goblin rock sounding a lot like these types of bands, with perhaps even more gutteral vocals and a healthy dose of Or'zet.
laughingowl
Jun 5 2007, 11:35 PM
QUOTE (Abstruse) |
Laughingowl, do I know you from another set of forums? BTW, still haven't heard anything about the status of the TV series other than the DVDs are available for pre-order. The only war cry I like better is "I DON'T BELIEVE IN FAIRIES!"
Back on topic...yeah, industrial or metal...stuff that's real bottom heavy with guttural vocals. Track down some German bands especially. Zeromancer pops into my head, but I'm not sure if that's exactly what I'm talking about...they may be a touch too melodic...
The Abstruse One |
Very likely I am on Jim's forums under the same alias
Abstruse
Jun 6 2007, 01:44 AM
QUOTE (laughingowl) |
QUOTE (Abstruse @ Jun 5 2007, 10:39 AM) | Laughingowl, do I know you from another set of forums? BTW, still haven't heard anything about the status of the TV series other than the DVDs are available for pre-order. The only war cry I like better is "I DON'T BELIEVE IN FAIRIES!"
Back on topic...yeah, industrial or metal...stuff that's real bottom heavy with guttural vocals. Track down some German bands especially. Zeromancer pops into my head, but I'm not sure if that's exactly what I'm talking about...they may be a touch too melodic...
The Abstruse One |
Very likely I am on Jim's forums under the same alias
|
Ditto. I used to post more, but since I finished White Knight I lost track a bit. It's all the same theories argued over and over again until the short stories start coming out.
Back on topic again...Another style of music you might want to try out is California or New York style hardcore music. I don't listen to it much so the only band I can suggest is A Wilhelm Scream (only because I saw them with Less Than Jake then again with Lagwagon), but there's a ton of bands that are really heavy, really fast, really aggressive, really rough, and really guttural. Great for orksploitation rock.
The Abstruse One
odinson
Jun 6 2007, 05:27 AM
QUOTE (Unarmed) |
QUOTE (Whipstitch @ Jun 5 2007, 03:31 PM) | moshcore (Throwdown, Carpathian, Bury Your Dead) |
I always kinda imagined goblin rock sounding a lot like these types of bands, with perhaps even more gutteral vocals and a healthy dose of Or'zet.
|
I always thought orks would be into gansta rap.
Unarmed
Jun 6 2007, 06:00 AM
QUOTE (odinson) |
QUOTE (Unarmed @ Jun 5 2007, 04:02 PM) | QUOTE (Whipstitch @ Jun 5 2007, 03:31 PM) | moshcore (Throwdown, Carpathian, Bury Your Dead) |
I always kinda imagined goblin rock sounding a lot like these types of bands, with perhaps even more gutteral vocals and a healthy dose of Or'zet.
|
I always thought orks would be into gansta rap.
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Nah, just trolls.
I actually wrote some troll gangsta rap lyrics.
Grinder
Jun 6 2007, 09:08 AM
QUOTE (odinson) |
QUOTE (Unarmed @ Jun 5 2007, 04:02 PM) | QUOTE (Whipstitch @ Jun 5 2007, 03:31 PM) | moshcore (Throwdown, Carpathian, Bury Your Dead) |
I always kinda imagined goblin rock sounding a lot like these types of bands, with perhaps even more gutteral vocals and a healthy dose of Or'zet.
|
I always thought orks would be into gansta rap.
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Hardcore, with its criticism of society in the lyrics and propagate "Unity" and all that, fits much better to the run-downs that most orks are.
Grinder
Jun 6 2007, 09:09 AM
QUOTE (odinson) |
Kein Mitleid für die Mehrheit (KMFDM) isn't very popular even here in germany, so i can't imagine, that it is in another country. [/QUOTE] Wasn't David Hasselhoff popular in Germany? I can't imagine him being popular anywhere. |
Yes, he was. Until he had that song where he used german lyrics and showed that he didn't understand one word what he was singing.
Trigger
Jun 6 2007, 09:43 AM
I like to use darkwave for some of the older SR music, especially attributing sounds like The Cruxshadows to what I think JetBlack would sound like.
I too like using Zeromancer, as well as some A Perfect Circle, Tool, NIN, God Module, E Nomine (for a spooky magical sound), Subway to Sally, and for that hard guttural california rock a band called The Funeral March that is actually from Arizona.
Dayhawk
Jun 6 2007, 01:23 PM
Having now listened to most of the suggestions here, all I can say is WOW.
This stuff is great!
Thanks everyone.
Whipstitch
Jun 6 2007, 07:49 PM
Yeesh... Okay, I fail at the internet. Had a good link I was going to post but it's not really working atm... maybe later.
Kyoto Kid
Jun 7 2007, 12:30 AM
QUOTE (laughingowl) |
Sorry wrong forums but 2 karma to whomever can place it:
Polka will Never DIE! |
...yah der hey!
Harry Dreseden.
WearzManySkins
Jun 7 2007, 12:38 AM
QUOTE (Kyoto Kid) |
QUOTE (laughingowl) | Sorry wrong forums but 2 karma to whomever can place it:
Polka will Never DIE! |
...yah der hey! Harry Dreseden. |
It is from Harry Dresden, but he did not say it, it was the Coroner character Butters. Ie the one man Polka Machine suit.
WMS
WhiskeyMac
Jun 7 2007, 01:39 AM
I figured goblin rock would be kinda like Cannibal Corpse or Soulfly.
Maybe there would be some rockabilly ork/troll bands. Just imagining some huge troll wiping out the spoons and slap-dancing around while an ork blows on the harmonica and a cyclops plays the banjo makes me laugh.
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