Aurora 4x
VB6 Aurora => Aurora Chat => Topic started by: Theodidactus on February 26, 2014, 09:52:14 AM
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Hello all,
I tend to make elaborate soundtracks for my creative endevours and idle distractions. I thought I'd share the music I listen to while playing aurora. There are some youtube links to music as well.
I'd like to know what everyone else is listening to.
Brian Eno
Brian eno is one of the fathers of synthesized music. He's got an incredible variety of music, but he does a lot of astronomy-themed compositions that really capture the feelings associated with deep space: sorta loneliness, wonder, and dread rolled together.
Among stars: He did a really cool compilation where he wrote a song that "sounds like" each of the major equatorial stars, I really like Altair:
Altair:
This is the sorta music one could make first contact to. It's all vaguely unsettling AND serene.
Mark Knopfler
most people think of thim as this sorta obnoxious-rock-and-roll guy because his band, Dire Straits, performed one number which decidedly is, however most of his individual stuff is very mellow, and they has some pretty cerebral themes. Some of his songs are about explorers:
Sailing to Philadelphia: brothers in arms:
Music from the voyager golden record:
You guys can look up what that is on your own time, sufficed to say, the original CD that had all the songs is VERY hard to find (though some kind soul has uploaded them all to youtube, I have no idea who he is ::) ) . Anyone trying to play a campaign with an "international" vibe should listen. Some of my favorite songs:
Sounds of earth: list=PLD392704803CB75C5
chakrulo: list=PLD392704803CB75C5
navajo night chant: list=PLD392704803CB75C5
cranes in their nest: list=PLD392704803CB75C5
dark was the night: list=PLD392704803CB75C5
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Also, why not some mongolian music?
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Those tracks sound really good!
I mostly hear the Starbound Soundtrack while playing Aurora and those fit right in with the tracks by Brian Eno you posted.
Link: https://soundcloud. com/curtis-schweitzer/sets/starbound/
Do you maybe know where to buy songs from Eno, preferred in a digital way? The youtube quality isn't great and rips from there don't sound good :/
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I tend to throw on a Pandora station and let it roll for a while, usually Great Big Sea, but I'll go with Daft Punk or just a classic rock mix on occasion as well.
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I tend to throw on a Pandora station and let it roll for a while, usually Great Big Sea
have done similar. I love those guys.
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http://munchhouse.com/conelrad/sureistheriskmade.html
CONELRAD is what i've been listening to lately during Aurora. It's super chill. Available for free download.
One of the tracks on youtube.
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I'm using that somewhere else, good suggestion.
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I sometimes listen to Jean-Michel Jarre. I realy like his Oxygene album. The movie Gallipoli (starring a very young Mel Gibson) had one of the Oxygene tracks used prominently in it. Many Planetariums have used Oxygene and other Jean-Michel Jarre pieces as background music.
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this:
and loop and loop and loop again!
other that that, aliens soundtrack, galciv2 soundtrack and fragile alliance soundtrack
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Quake 2 soundtrack, red alert, also random talented people on youtube, such as ewan dobson or alternatively lara6683 playing random video game soundtracks.
Or several hour long random aggressive dubstep crap.
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I'll just leave this here - hxxp: www. prometheus-music. com/thestars. html
Prometheus Music put out that album of filk. . .
Hope Eyrie, A Fire in The Sky, Legends, and The Pioneers of Mars are all awesome tracks. . .
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Here is the 2nd Track to the Album Oxygene by Jean-Michel Jarre - it is the one used in Gallipoli. This is my first time trying to put a video connection into Aurora, wish me luck.
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I listen to a range of stuff while I'm playing Aurora, though I usually lean towards ambient/instrumental stuff and old space rock.
I've got some Eno on my playlist also, as well as some stuff from the Homeworld, Halo, and BSG soundtracks. The Homeworld soundtracks have some great, otherworldly-sounding ambient stuff; the Halo music is more orchestral and militaristic, great to bushwhack NPRs to.
As far as space rock goes, I've got a lot of Hawkwind, Amon Düül, and Pink Floyd on my HD that tend to be recurring choices. Hawkwind is one of my favorite bands in general, not just while listening to Aurora. Sometimes instead of going to my custom space music playlist, I'll just start at the beginning of my Hawkwind collection and let my media player just run through it all. Floyd's "Set the Controls For the Heart of the Sun" is a good one too, as are some of AD/ADII's instrumental tracks.
Edit: I guess I don't have enough posts to post links yet. Guess I'll have to try again later.
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Hmm, I should try Homeworld/BSG, But I never would have thought of pink Floyd, I'll check It out.
Layely I've just been loading up 1 hour+ long compilations off youtube of electronic/techno/dubstep/random crap, actually some of that keygen/chipcore stuff isn't too bad. Skrillex is smeg but it has frikken lasers in it.
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Skrillex is like star trek and doctor who. A lot (maybe even a majority) of their fanbases are annoying, which I think fosters the ILLUSION that they aren't very good when in fact I think they are.
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Skrillex is like star trek and doctor who. A lot (maybe even a majority) of their fanbases are annoying, which I think fosters the ILLUSION that they aren't very good when in fact I think they are.
I'd argue that when it comes to Doctor Who, heheh, but that's a good point. I think Skrillex and dubstep in general gets a bad rap in some quarters that it doesn't really deserve. I've heard a lot of it that I really like that's also pretty different from the stuff Skrillex puts out, but people tend to lump it all in under the Skrillex category.
It's not the kind of stuff I tend to listen to while playing Aurora, mind, but it's still pretty good IMO.
As for Pink Floyd - some of it fits, some of it doesn't. I tend to stay away from the more conventional-sounding acoustic rock stuff and the weird, proto-industrial stuff like 'Money' and go straight for the space-ier songs. 'Set the Controls. . . ', 'On the Run', 'Obscured by Clouds' or 'Quicksilver' are all pretty good choices.
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Actually I think some of the stuff from incompetech would be great for Aurora ambiance, allthough I keep hearing the same tracks being used in Kerbal Space program videos on youtube, but I've found some awesome atmospheric tracks already.
Here's a collection called "Dark world" slow somewhat eery tracks which would suit whatever you happen to be doing at the time.
http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?collection=006&Search=Search
(http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?collection=006&Search=Search)
Alot of the stuff there is free, but you can support the artist Kevin Macleod by buying them, theres currently a 7 hour long collection of compilations for about 10 bucks. Or you could just download stuff and queue them up, whatever :p
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Couple of songs from various space sim YT videos that i liked.
from Homeworld 2 PDS mod trailer - love that one, here is the whole trailer -
index=135&list=FLuKOF762cuFDAzeDn3IMxqg
Battle Keeper a.k.a. Best part of Homeworld 2 soundtrack.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=FLuKOF762cuFDAzeDn3IMxqg&feature=mh_lolz
And one from some Freespace 2 video ;)
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SomaFM has few stations that I love listening to while playing Aurora:
http://somafm.com/missioncontrol/ (http://somafm.com/missioncontrol/)
http://somafm.com/dronezone/ (http://somafm.com/dronezone/)
http://somafm.com/deepspaceone/ (http://somafm.com/deepspaceone/)
http://somafm.com/spacestation/ (http://somafm.com/spacestation/)
Mission Control is my favourite - nothing beats ambient with actual Apollo/STS audio logs.
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I could recommend a lot of stuff, though I personally don't like to listen to music when playing Aurora. It just seems too technical for the etherial for me.
However there is one amazing and neutral title I could recommend that comes from 4x too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu-zLip6tkI&list=FLBgabXWdptKx6RYabEsb5Qg&index=58 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu-zLip6tkI&list=FLBgabXWdptKx6RYabEsb5Qg&index=58)
The trancy style and then the title name hit perfectly. The rest of the soundtrack is fair, but not as outstanding as this.
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I'd recommend the whole Space Engineers OST.
list=PLhPp-QAUKF_ishuzv6A_h4IWVB4BQZNpQ
Its got battle music, peaceful construction music, exploration music, everything.
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Bump.
Stumbled upon this channel on youtube and instantly thought of Aurora.
Trinity ward (https://m.youtube.com/channel/UC1pBlGyJ01rbRcPf91M7lHQ)
Seems to be a fairly unknown indie at least by the tiny number of views and the lack of any subscribers. Though it's likely the channel isn't official. Check it out if you're a fan of industrial, atmospheric, electro ... Funk I guess?
Edit: I checked their website, that is their youtube channel, first subscriber lol.
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2 Wicky - Hooverphonic
Assignment: Outer Space - Kernfeld
Intelligent Creatures & Technology Eats Its Young - Powerman 5000
Somewhere on the Other Side of Nowhere - Powerman 5000
Wandering Star - Kid Beyond (or the original by Portishead)
Space Oddity - David Bowie
Astro Zombies - Misfits (optionally, listen to the version that's featuring Joan Jett)
Fly Me to the Moon - Frank Sinatra
The Final Countdown - Europe
Space Truckin' - Deep Purple
Man On The Moon - R.E.M.
Telstar - The Tornados
White Light - Gorillaz
Gravity - Gorillaz
Starshine - Gorillaz
Space - M.I.A.
Astronomy - Blue Oyster Cult (or the Metallica version, if you prefer it)
Sometimes when I want a laugh I listen to Electronik Supersonik by Zlad.
Also worth mentioning are the soundtracks to various space-themed tv shows, movies, and games, some of my favorite being Battlestar Galactica (some of these are duds, but the good ones are great!), Descent (the game), and the original Starcraft OST.
You can also pretty much just search for "space ambient" on youtube and come up with a dozen great results.
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Obligatory ( i cant believe no one posted this yet )
And for more peaceful times :
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Blood for the Blood God is always good.
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For those early Nuclear Thermal/Pulse times ;D
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That was an awesome mission, I forget how large everything needs to be with Real Solar System.
Great soundtrack too.
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Album: Mirror's Edge Catalyst (EA Games Soundtrack) by Solar Fields.
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Battle Keeper a.k.a. Best part of Homeworld 2 soundtrack.
The whole Homeworld series has quite good OST, I am especially in love with Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak OST (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcgQLp7Oj3M).
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Stellar Drone - Light Years
https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=NDJn0SQehb4
This is the music for the original Aurora game, and inseparable from it.