Something a little different this time, folks. Typically I'm always busy digging through rules looking for fun and interesting ways to break the system, but today I've got something special. I think you'll enjoy it.
Basically I'd like this thread to be a place for the community to share Shadowrun appropriate music - for use as inspiration, for use as background music during sessions, or even just for use as unbridled entertainment. A place where you can share the best and craziest cyberpunk tunes that get your blood pumping, your mind racing, and your trigger finger twitching.
Without further ado, let's kick this off.
Perturbator
If you've played the most excellent Hotline Miami, you've probably fallen in love with Perturbator already, possibly without even realizing it. And if you haven't played Hotline Miami and have any appreciation whatsoever for heavy driving 80s synth and adrenaline fueled gameplay, GO DO SO IMMEDIATELY.
But on to the music!
Perturbator's been around for a decent while, quietly building up an impressive stock of absolutely wicked music. With three albums at present and rumors of a fourth on the way, it's about damn time people started to tune in. Start with the most recent, I Am The Night. If shivers aren't running down your spine within ten seconds of hitting play, you simply don't love cyberpunk, because the album is positively dripping with it. Evocative of every grimy inner city slum you've ever seen on film or TV, it's a pitch-perfect audio virtualization of copper wire, neon lasers, steaming asphalt, gunmetal and chrome. Jack in, chummers, and let the night consume you.
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.
Skinemax and Memorex
But maybe hacking isn't your thing either. Maybe you just want to sit back and enjoy the future for a change, by basking in the warm, flickering glow of the trideo.
Yesterday's tomorrow promises a brighter future, today! Imagine a world of color and motion, fashion and style, money and power, where the sun is always shining even when the stars come out to play on Sunset Strip until the break of dawn. We know your time is precious and your attention span is trim and sleek, which is why Memorex is there for you, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, fifty two weeks a year, 394.26 years per b'ak'tun. But don't take my word for it! Try it yourself today, and you'll see why Skinemax is the country's number one choice in cinematic dreamscape enlightenment and wellbeing! Come on down! Operators are standing by!
~Umi