Traveller: Soundtrack

[ShapeShifter]

Naff 70's scifi TV (Buck Rogers).

Vast, immersive dark ambient from Steve Roach great for background atmosphere.

Life in the Gravity Well

 

[Otto Harkaman]

The Heavy Metal soundtrack

Blue Oyster Cult, Veteran of the Psychic Wars

 

[Strummist]

Music for space battles: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosions_In_The_Sky

 

[Dragoner]

Loved Heavy Metal the Movie when I was a kid, it was a big influence on Traveller, so was the magazine. Here is something completely different- Dubstep Traveller.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzTShCCo1CM

 

[Otto Harkaman]

Well I am showing my age, never knew there was a genre of music called

Dubstep

Pretty cool, of course I started to click on a bunch of other music videos. Mindf*cker seems interesting.

 

[Dragoner]

The first one off the compilation: Excision, Datsik - Teflon, is pretty cool. I'm pretty much an old dog as well, I found a lot of that just wandering through youtube. Though I heard of Dubstep from a nephew in Austria when I was visting Europe last spring.

 

[Enoki]

Dubstep is sort of a variant of progressive trance, euro trance, and electronica. On the whole there is some real talent in the genere you don't generally hear on pop anything.

 

[Dragoner]

Yes, I have been having a good time going through the stuff, like N-Type, Hacksaw.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llCj3dxgSP4

 

[Sentient Bean]

Slough Feg's "Traveller" concept album brought me to the game so I would have to say that it is my preferred soundtrack.

 

[Thuffer]

Long time lurker, first time poster

I was born in 77 and I have to be the one to post this? Tsk Tsk...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVRGoom71lk

Also
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHYqFaexfMw
Though to tell the truth anything by Vangelis would be suitable.

Lastly I've seen plenty of mentions of Tangerine dream but not a post of this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5TDz-C3wlI
or this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co8NpY-AbAY&feature=related

 

[saundby]

If I played Yes' Starship Trooper during a game, the game would stop while we listen. It's on during prep, but not for play. Same goes for the Relayer and Topographic Oceans albums. Olias of Sunhillow and Close to the Edge are 50/50. Big Machine would stop the game for (snide) commentary.

Try playing Magma's MËKANÏK DESTRUKTIW KOMMANDÖH during a game some time. It's especially fun when you've got polyglots trying to figure out what they're saying.


http://www.seventhrecords.com/MAGMA/REX7/cdmdk.html

 

[Rraurgrimm]

If You're going after 70/80ies synth You might have to include Dave Greenslades' Pentateuch, a concept album telling the tales of a lost distant world through a time capsule found aboard a starship adrift in the solar system:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4FVfS08lCo

Yet I still think the music of Alexei Zakharov, Daniel Finney or Thomas Egeskov Petersen for the X (not Xcom) series of space games (X, X2, X3 Reunion and addons, X Rebirth) is most suitable:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMkd9fPJB78&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsM4q2U5mx0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpjEm5KjCyI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMyveh84He8

EVE online provides a nice selection of music as well:

http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Music

 

[ShapeShifter]

If I played Yes' Starship Trooper during a game, the game would stop while we listen. It's on during prep, but not for play. Same goes for the Relayer and Topographic Oceans albums. Olias of Sunhillow and Close to the Edge are 50/50. Big Machine would stop the game for (snide) commentary.

Try playing Magma's MËKANÏK DESTRUKTIW KOMMANDÖH during a game some time. It's especially fun when you've got polyglots trying to figure out what they're saying.


http://www.seventhrecords.com/MAGMA/REX7/cdmdk.html

I don't think Yes' affirmative, optimistic, rich soundscapes are a good fit for the dark and dirty, grim 'n' gritty CT implied cosmos. YMMV. I've probably mentioned it before, but Floyd's live version of "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun" is spot-on.

 

[Dragoner]

This struck me as very travelleresque:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBNwTbPA-iA

moby new dawn fades

 

[DeltaX15]

Last Sunday I went to a Hawkwind gig. It's not music I would play while refereing a session (as I'd be concentrating on the music rather than the game), but the data banks on my personal Type S have the complete collection!

 

[77topaz]

(Apologies if this has already been posted somewhere in this long list of pages)
A heavy rock band made an album specially about Traveller. The album was just called "Traveller", I don't recall the band.

Music like Jean Michel Jarre and Tangerine Dream would fit well with space voyages...

 

[77topaz]

If You're going after 70/80ies synth You might have to include Dave Greenslades' Pentateuch, a concept album telling the tales of a lost distant world through a time capsule found aboard a starship adrift in the solar system:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4FVfS08lCo

Yet I still think the music of Alexei Zakharov, Daniel Finney or Thomas Egeskov Petersen for the X (not Xcom) series of space games (X, X2, X3 Reunion and addons, X Rebirth) is most suitable:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMkd9fPJB78&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsM4q2U5mx0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpjEm5KjCyI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMyveh84He8

EVE online provides a nice selection of music as well:

http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Music

How about "Encore", "Zeit" and "Stratosfear" albums (Tangerine Dream):
Stratosfear
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEgphCcN-ak
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w8VsvJ40sM
Encore
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Rcf00vt7Fw
Zeit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qia_LqcDMhc

There's probably a lot more that I can't think of right now.
*EDIT* Oh, and Oxygene of course (by J.M. Jarre)
*EDIT* And "Music for Starports" )) by Brian Eno of course.

 

[77topaz]

I always loved Isunova by E. S. Posthumus ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Qt8jrY8rGQ - if Youtube does not kill it again). I could easily imagine very dramatic, epic Traveller scenes in space here. More can be found at ( http://www.esposthumus.com/ )/[/url]

Link's dead.

 

[Jeff M. Hopper]

(Apologies if this has already been posted somewhere in this long list of pages)
A heavy rock band made an album specially about Traveller. The album was just called "Traveller", I don't recall the band.

Music like Jean Michel Jarre and Tangerine Dream would fit well with space voyages...

Tangerine Dream, especially their albums Underwater Sunlight and Le Parc.

Although numerous soundtracks come to mind. Especially Yokko Kano's work on Cowboy Bebop and Ghost in the Shell.

Although my last Traveller game was such a comedy of errors that I wanted to play the theme song from Invader Zim on continuous loop.

 

[Blue Ghost]

Sooo... I guess no one plays J-Lo during their gaming sessions? Katy Perry? Lady Gaga? Britney Spears? Man, you guys are close minded :smirk:

Seriously, I always had some soundtrack going on in the background. Then our friend would usually whip out late 70 and early 80 rock guitar rifts.