Music to play Traveller by?
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Oh its not overpowering, just play in the background under the players' voices.
I forgot to add that I usually stick a tv in the room and loop the Earthlight Special Edition DVD continuously too for atmosphere, sort of that busy futuristic information everywhere kind of thing... I run a screensaver on my PC of space and SciFi pictures too and turn the screen towards the players. For those moments when the old imagination just lets ya down....
Eno is spot on, and Aphex Twin & the Orb too, I forgot to include all of them. Vampyros Lesbos! Some truly great music from those films
Good call.Shadowdancer
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Japanese taiko drum music: Kodo Drums, Ondekoza, Eitetsu Hayashi
Peruvian flute music: Wayanay, Inkuyo, Echoes of Incas
Synthesizer and keyboard music: Isao Tomita, Keiko Matsui, Mike Oldfield, Vangelis, Kitaro, Angelo Badalamenti
American Indian music: R. Carlos Nakai
Indian and Middle Eastern music: Sheila Chandra, Vas, Rasa
Others: Enigma, Adiemus, Deep Forest, Loreena McKennitt, Moby, Gipsy Kings, Dead Can Dance, Lisa Gerrard, Laurie Anderson, Fatboy Slim
trader jim
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Trader Jims favorite music to play Traveller by
PINK FLOYD-------DARK SIDE OF THE MOON-------
MONEY - KEEP YOUR HANDS OF OF MY STACK _
KA-CHING KA-CHING KA-CHING!!!!!!!
PINK FLOYD-------DARK SIDE OF THE MOON-------
MONEY - KEEP YOUR HANDS OF OF MY STACK _
KA-CHING KA-CHING KA-CHING!!!!!!!
Man, I gotta have that.
I've gotten lots of milage out of the Conan soundtrack, for fantasy games. For SF I've never really used music but may do so someday. I would probably lean towards techno and ambient, with more specialized stuff (like the Gabriel soundtrack mentioned above) used for specific situations.
For the "Primitive Feast" scene, I'd love to use Japanese Daiko drumming, if I could find a CD of it.
Antares Administration
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If you want a whole range on a single album, try Massive Attack's disc Mezzanine. Instrumental, vocals, with electro-hip-hop-dub-rock-jazz flavor and a rythym that never stops. It's like the music from the club at the beginning of the Matrix, or what would have been playing in the Mos Eisley cantina if it had been a Cyberpunk story....
It has hard sci-fi written all over it!
Paul Nemeth
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It has hard sci-fi written all over it!
Paul Nemeth
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GregFoster63
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That same Massive Attack CD (Mezzanine) has the song that is playing when Neo is asleep at his computer near the beginning of the movie. And that Massive Attack song is not on the Matrix soundtrack CD that I have, just the Massive Attack Mezzanine CD.Originally posted by Antares Administration:
If you want a whole range on a single album, try Massive Attack's disc Mezzanine. Instrumental, vocals, with electro-hip-hop-dub-rock-jazz flavor and a rythym that never stops. It's like the music from the club at the beginning of the Matrix, or what would have been playing in the Mos Eisley cantina if it had been a Cyberpunk story....
It has hard sci-fi written all over it!
Paul Nemeth
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The song name is "Dissolved Girl" if anyone is interested. Amazon.com's webpage an excerpt of this and some of the other songs from that CD:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000006045/qid=1034955845/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/103-1782211-9046212
SilverMarble
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Personally, I am partial to having a strong classical music background, nothing too baroque. Also, I was toying with the idea of having a "Ship's theme" that could be played at the appropriate points in the session. The crew can decide, making music selection fun for all! I also like the idea of having movie soundtracks, but some of them tend to crescendo just at the inappropriate times. John Williams will be banned from my stereo, since almost everything he does harkens to SW. But that is just one Captain's opinion. 
I like to play Peter Gabriels "Last Temptation of Christ" it has some nice haunting melodies on it and blends nicely into the background.
Worked well for my CoC game.
But I also noted it worked well with several other genre's as well.
Also, it's out of print, but the soundtrack to "kafka" worked well for CoC and actually did'nt do bad with other genre's either.
Best battle musis is "anvil of crom" even if it is a tad short.
Bruce
The Man Behind the Curtain
Worked well for my CoC game.
But I also noted it worked well with several other genre's as well.
Also, it's out of print, but the soundtrack to "kafka" worked well for CoC and actually did'nt do bad with other genre's either.
Best battle musis is "anvil of crom" even if it is a tad short.
Bruce
The Man Behind the Curtain
Father Fletch
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For years now I have been using the soundtrack/score from "Full Metal Jacket." The first 8 tracks are stuff from the 60’s and not really very good as game stuff goes, but, when you get to the last tracks it is full of subtle percussive beats, haunting reeds and woodwinds and sudden screeching strings with a touch of feedback. For those of you who own the movie think of the final fight scene in the burnt out building between the Marines and the Girl sniper. Turn the lights down low and play this stuff and the players will be freaking.
I first used it in a Morrow Project game where the characters were in a swamp with 30’ foot long zombie crocodiles and magnesium parachute flares starkly illuminating the moss bedecked scene. My players really got into what was happening. Ever since whenever I pull out that CD my players now we are in for some s**t.
I recently have been introduced to Prokofiev’s "Alexander Nevsky" it was written as a soundtrack for a Russian film about fighting the Germans in the 14th century. The tracks are variously light and playful and dark and ominous. My favorite track of all is the 6-minute "Fight on the Ice." Every time I hear it I wonder where John Williams really got his inspiration. I have yet to hear other Prokofiev but he was a 20th century composer who scored and composed many Russian films, often with Eisenstein, the father of modern film.
Other than that I like the opening music to Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Any of the V’ger music is kinda creepy. The Klingon music has great percussives that spice up a battle scene.
Any of the Star Wars albums can be played in the background and usually just set the scene perfectly.
Vangelis, Patrick O’Hearne, Tangerine Dream "Through Metamorphic Rock."
For those of you with streaming audio on the computer I really like Astreaux World.
http://wwwastreauxworld.com
They play a mix that you can let run in the background and not have to buy the albums.
I first used it in a Morrow Project game where the characters were in a swamp with 30’ foot long zombie crocodiles and magnesium parachute flares starkly illuminating the moss bedecked scene. My players really got into what was happening. Ever since whenever I pull out that CD my players now we are in for some s**t.
I recently have been introduced to Prokofiev’s "Alexander Nevsky" it was written as a soundtrack for a Russian film about fighting the Germans in the 14th century. The tracks are variously light and playful and dark and ominous. My favorite track of all is the 6-minute "Fight on the Ice." Every time I hear it I wonder where John Williams really got his inspiration. I have yet to hear other Prokofiev but he was a 20th century composer who scored and composed many Russian films, often with Eisenstein, the father of modern film.
Other than that I like the opening music to Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Any of the V’ger music is kinda creepy. The Klingon music has great percussives that spice up a battle scene.
Any of the Star Wars albums can be played in the background and usually just set the scene perfectly.
Vangelis, Patrick O’Hearne, Tangerine Dream "Through Metamorphic Rock."
For those of you with streaming audio on the computer I really like Astreaux World.
http://wwwastreauxworld.com
They play a mix that you can let run in the background and not have to buy the albums.
PapaGolfWhiskey
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I've got a case of 'Deja Vu' saying this but
Jean Michelle Jarre's 'Equinox'.
I bought that tape the same time I bought my boxed set with the distress call from Free Trader Beowulf. and played the heck out of it while devouring the books etc for that first set.
For me, that vaguely eerie sometimes jazzy synth music has always BEEN traveler.
Jean Michelle Jarre's 'Equinox'.
I bought that tape the same time I bought my boxed set with the distress call from Free Trader Beowulf. and played the heck out of it while devouring the books etc for that first set.
For me, that vaguely eerie sometimes jazzy synth music has always BEEN traveler.
Shadowdancer
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We intensively used background music. Every campaign had it's own recognizable 'Main Theme', and certain situations (Battle, a specific NPC, ...) had their sub-themes.
By the time, this was inflational, it was difficult to find 'new' music.
So we cut it down to a few well-placed pieces of music here and there (every two sessions or so).
I mainly use Soundtracks (am a collector...) e.g. Wing Commander , Stargate, Starship Troopers, Blade Runner, ... but no Star Wars or Star Trek, because it's too associated with the original.
By the time, this was inflational, it was difficult to find 'new' music.
So we cut it down to a few well-placed pieces of music here and there (every two sessions or so).
I mainly use Soundtracks (am a collector...) e.g. Wing Commander , Stargate, Starship Troopers, Blade Runner, ... but no Star Wars or Star Trek, because it's too associated with the original.
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