O.k. as I print off a fleet of R-36's for the bay's of FirstLight it came to me I haven't got any music to play in the background!!!

Help.

Yes I have the Vanguals (Sp?) somewhere but something more modern would be good.

Lord Abaddon of Wormwood

Holst's The Planets.

For me science fiction works better with orchestral music...

The Auld Grump

Well, there is always the Star Wars soundtrack.

I also find that sometimes soundtracks like the Matrix, Bourne Identity, etc work really well when you have combat. But for most parts, I agree with Grump - orchestral music is the best background music.

A music thread! At last.

I post a musical influences list in the credits of every model set so far.

For this set the playlist has rambled far and wide:

Disagreeable Industrial Techno: Velvet Acid Christ, Assemblage 23

Indy Rock: Failure, Arcade Fire

Other: That Jay-Z vs Pavement thing, Prefuse 73, Boards of Canada, Coil, Dead Can Dance Box Set, Download, Klaus Schulze, Neutronic

AARRGHH: ATR, Mad Capsule Markets

That's amazing! I haven't heard of any of them!

But then again my tastes lean toward folk music (mostly ballads), British Music Hall, and oldies... far too many of which weren't oldies when I first heard them.

The Auld Grump - Mad is the crew bound for Alpha Centauri
Dreamers and poets and clowns
Bold is the ship bound for Alpha Centauri
Nothing can turn it around

Oh, we must believe in magic
We must believe in the guiding hand
If you believe in magic
You'll have the universe at your command

Crystal Gayle

wow, prefuse 73 and boards of canada!

i'm sure anything released on warp would be good for designing sci-fi. squarepusher anyone???

My tastes swing madly from week to week. I'm 1 part geek, two parts Industrial head and one part dirty hippy Heres some of my fav's:

- Dead Can Dance (MUST HAVE FOR GAMING, FOLDING, ZONING OUT)
- Radio Rivendell (ANOTHER MUST FOR BUILDING, GREAT EPIC SOUNDTRACKS)
- Classic Skinny Puppy & Ministry
- 16 Volt
- Coil
- NIN
- Radio Head
- Tragically Hip
- Stevie Ray Vaughan
- Hendrix
- Grateful dead
- Crosby, Stills, Nash
- Nirvana

OMG, there is a Dead Can Dance Boxed set?

I simply must have this... I've about worn out my 'Tward the Within' CD.

I'd have to add:

-Juno Reactor
-Future Sound of London
&
-Apex Twin

To my zoning out and modeling line up.

-Floyd

Radio Rivendell.
Nice, I did not know about that.
I'll be tuning in to that quite often.
Thanks Denny.

I think that a good companion for this set would be something from Voivod's early/middle years - Killing Technology, Dimension Hatross and/or Nothingface.

Dead Can Dance is a definite, personal favorite. They definitely work for modeling "theme" music.

I vary my background music, depending on what I'm working on at the time (I paint miniatures, too, so that's part of my "modeling" process).

Anyway, for Sci-Fi stuff, I really, really like Klaus Schulze (an old electronic musician, now called 'Ambient') for dark, moody stuff. I rather like Kraftwerk a lot as well, though it's not typically as dark or moody (just cool).

My absolute favorite artist, though, is Mike Oldfield. Tubular Bells (the original) is an incredible piece, as are many of his other "non-pop" albums. For First Light, I'd strongly recommend Songs of a Distant Earth by Oldfield (yes, it is based on the novel of the same name by Clarke).

With all the discussion about music for First Light, I have to ask the question: what music has been used for all the other releases? For example, where did the stuff used for CWU come from? Would love to hear about that!

Gods! I haven't thought about Voivod and Kraftwerk in ages. When I get home this afternoon I think I'll get out my old tapes and have a reminisc-a-thon....

gasp! he said ja..ja...japanimation!

i haven't heard that term in years. i used to get smacked and corrected anytime i said that instead of "anime".

i work in a bookstore, and still constantly get corrected for saying "manga" wrong...