You can download the entire thing for free. Neat, yeah? :')
Potential background music for the game.
Trent Reznor would be happy to know...
Just Ghost I was intended for free download, or am I missing something?
Midnight Syndicate stuff is pretty good too.
Julia said:
Trent Reznor would be happy to know...
Just Ghost I was intended for free download, or am I missing something?
I have no idea. I don't listen to much contemporary music (I just checked out about a hundred something CDs last year so I would have some idea of what the hell practically everyone else was talking about ;'D but that's way too much detail for me).
I listen to a lot of the slower Interpol songs. its guitar driven, but the mood is very dark and slow. here is a couple track.
and some Waldeck:
I'll give your suggestion a try.
Avi_dreader said:
I have no idea. I don't listen to much contemporary music (I just checked out about a hundred something CDs last year so I would have some idea of what the hell practically everyone else was talking about ;'D but that's way too much detail for me).
Good point Avi; so, why not some good swing / jazz / roaming 20's music for AH?
Julia said:
Avi_dreader said:
I have no idea. I don't listen to much contemporary music (I just checked out about a hundred something CDs last year so I would have some idea of what the hell practically everyone else was talking about ;'D but that's way too much detail for me).
Good point Avi; so, why not some good swing / jazz / roaming 20's music for AH?
Because it's totally antithetical to the mood of the game (and the creator of the original source material it's based on). The closest I'd go to 20s music would be blues, and only if they were *extremely* old (preferably with static in the recordings), gloomy, and depressing :')
If I were to use swing and jazz, I might as well play Frank Sinatra's Downtown whenever people land on the streets there ;'D
I always thought this song would be good for the game. I like the more upbeat tempo.
Maybe this too, but could be a little too upbeat.
Heh... Upbeat is exactly what I *don't* wan't ;'D
Avi_dreader said:
Julia said:
Avi_dreader said:
I have no idea. I don't listen to much contemporary music (I just checked out about a hundred something CDs last year so I would have some idea of what the hell practically everyone else was talking about ;'D but that's way too much detail for me).
Good point Avi; so, why not some good swing / jazz / roaming 20's music for AH?
Because it's totally antithetical to the mood of the game (and the creator of the original source material it's based on). The closest I'd go to 20s music would be blues, and only if they were *extremely* old (preferably with static in the recordings), gloomy, and depressing :')
If I were to use swing and jazz, I might as well play Frank Sinatra's Downtown whenever people land on the streets there ;'D
Avi_dreader said:
Because it's totally antithetical to the mood of the game (and the creator of the original source material it's based on). The closest I'd go to 20s music would be blues, and only if they were *extremely* old (preferably with static in the recordings), gloomy, and depressing :')
If I were to use swing and jazz, I might as well play Frank Sinatra's Downtown whenever people land on the streets there ;'D
Sounds like an Ally McBeal scene :
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Well, depends on what you want to stress. If the oppressive mood is what you're searching for, then ok, gloomy and depressing blues should be fine. In case you prefer to recreate a "normal day" in a city in the 20s, you can have even something different (but definitely not Sinatra :
The bloody EDIT function messing up everything again... sigh
telling you, Waldeck is where it's at:
Avi_dreader said:
Heh... Upbeat is exactly what I *don't* wan't ;'D
hey, you sound like a grumpy old fool :-)))
Though, that is fine with me, my wife tends to give me the same nickname :-)
Music is so diverse... Difficult to have everyone "educated" on the same melodies (yes I reckon that taste is mostly education in all regards, not only music).
I like a lot NIN by the way.
amikezor said:
Avi_dreader said:
Heh... Upbeat is exactly what I *don't* wan't ;'D
hey, you sound like a grumpy old fool :-)))
Though, that is fine with me, my wife tends to give me the same nickname :-)
Music is so diverse... Difficult to have everyone "educated" on the same melodies (yes I reckon that taste is mostly education in all regards, not only music).
I like a lot NIN by the way.
Old? ;') I'm not old! Mumble grumble...
RabiTampa said:
telling you, Waldeck is where it's at:
I *like* the sound of Waldeck, which means I'm not incorporating it. It doesn't strike me as disturbing or eerie enough :')
Most of the music I've set aside for use with Arkham is dischordant, or out and out ugly (lots of 20th century classical). Except for Hastur and Nyarlethotep :') Nyarl gets a lot of foreign language chants (mostly religious in Latin, Hebrew, or Arabic, although I have a few in Russian too), and Hastur gets a bunch of more conventional music, a lot of Bach type stuff.
Heh... Don't misunderstand me, I would only use *some* of the Ghosts tracks, many of them I'd consider inappropriate for the sort of mood I like the game to convey :') monsters killing you, not you killing monsters. I'm definitely not comfortable putting something that's clearly Rock sounding as the background music for a game set in the 20s... I can stomach monsters from other dimensions, but that's just absurd ;')
While we're talking about NIN and appropriate music:
Back in the days I bought 'Quake' just for excellent, atmospheric tracks. I think, they'd fit to AH, too.
I think I have you beat. Creepy music for thsi game, that is both haunting, depressing, yet hopeful.
Don't laugh...
yes these are remixes from games, but think about it...you'll eventually let it click. lol
Curator said:
I think I have you beat. Creepy music for thsi game, that is both haunting, depressing, yet hopeful.
Don't laugh...
yes these are remixes from games, but think about it...you'll eventually let it click. lol
Donkey Kong, Chrono Trigger, Quake, FEAR, just to name a few had great haunting themes. YOu can find remixes on youtube or OCremix site.
Now to fit more of the "out there music" I give you AKLO
EDIT: don't stare at the pic in tha AKLO link. You WILL start to have "mind screws". You will see things because your mind is ina trance and not focusing. But if you like that stuff there you go stare at it all day. Just hope you don't turn in to a fish people.
Errrr... I definitely can't use Chrono Trigger music. Too many extraneous associations.
I already have AKLO music :')
The DK music is still too light melancholy for the moods I like this game to create. This isn't exactly a horror soundtrack ;'D (I was just imagining some horror movies with this as background music— they became funny).
Maybe some Blue Foundation... Yes, I know they have a track on the Twilight Soundtrack but I have the album "Sweep of Days" and it has some slow dark melodies on that Album. I would give a link but the good atmospheric track are not posted on youtube. you could check them out on lastfm.com though.
ow, I found one of them. Here is "Shine" by Blue Foundation: www.youtube.com/watch
or youo could just go with the silent hill 3 music?
RabiTampa said:
or youo could just go with the silent hill 3 music?
Yeah, Tibs showed me some Silent Hill music ;') it's pretty good. ::Laughter:: maybe too good. I might hallucinate that the board is trying to eat me (it is)!
We just played a great Innsmouth game with this soundtrack by John Zorn :
I know it doesn't look very "Lovecraftian", but I can tell you that this very mysterious and repetitive music really suits the game !
4 chords or so, great arrangements...
Try this !
some recent additions to the "creepy" playlist
Dusty Springfield's version of Spooky (from the soundtrack to Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels)
The Mekons - Dark Dark Dark (from Natural) and Orpheus (from United)
Chuck Berry - Down Bound Train
Regan's Theme from the soundtrack to the Exorcist II
the theme to Dark Shadows
Artie Shaw - Gloomy Sunday
The Blasters - Dark Night
If you can find Fats Waller's version of Dry Bones, it's amazing