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?

Ok here is one for you..
Slough Feg
http://www.metal-archives.com/release.php?id=19538
http://www.grande-rock.com/slough_feg.htm

The rest involves bagpipes, Didjeridus and rock bands.
WMS

It's all cyclic, so 40's Big Band.

Try some Atari Teenage Riot or Vampire Mooose.

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.

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.

Sorry wrong forums but 2 karma to whomever can place it:

Polka will Never DIE!

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

Having now listened to most of the suggestions here, all I can say is WOW.

This stuff is great!

Thanks everyone.

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.

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.