Music to Travel By

[CyborgPrime]

Background music can add ambiance to your sci-fi RPG tabletop game. Here’s my list of sci-fi ambiance music to enhance your game and help set the tone.

Enjoy Some Music To Travel By
https://www.cyborgprime.com/sci-fi-rpg-blog/music-to-travel-by-ambiance-for-your-traveller-rpg-game

 

[Timerover51]

There might be a generation gap here, but aside from the one Star Trek sound track, nothing else really appeals to me. I have never been a fan of "heavy metal" rock.

 

[Vargr Breath]

I'm getting old I've never heard of most of the groups.

 

[gchuck]

For your standard starport bar or night club encounter, might I suggest

Beneath the Surface by Balligomingo

Very pleasant female vocals, a mix of soft rock and new age ethereal electronic music, with a definite sci-fi feel.

 

[Brandon C]

I'd drop in just about anything from Two Steps From Hell.

 

[jcrocker]

There's a group called Caravan Palace, they call their music 'electroswing', it sounds like it's from a past that never was. Lone Digger is one of their bigger hits.

At the other end, you could relabel some old classics - if no one in your group ever listened to Gregorian Monks' chanting, you could play some of that straight up and come up with a Vilani name for it.

There was a group from the early 90s, Enigma, that used Gregorian chanting as a background for more modern music.

Depending on the campaign, you could have some fun with it - have a backwater planet whose most popular music is the far future equivalent of Rickrolling. Or K-pop, or whatever else sets the PC's teeth on edge.

Or the music for the evening call to prayer is something from Saint Elvis of Terra.

 

[gchuck]

There's a group called Caravan Palace, they call their music 'electroswing', it sounds like it's from a past that never was. Lone Digger is one of their bigger hits.

Kind of reminds me of 'Squirrel Nut Zippers'.

 

[CyborgPrime]

Thanks for the suggestions - I'll have a listen and add stuff into appropriate categories.