Music Suggestions for Dark Sun

Moon_Goddess · Jun 21, 2010

I ran the FreeRPGDay adventure Bloodsand Arena last night and had a blast, we'll be finishing it up next week and I plain on moving into a campaign.

Dark Sun has always been my favorite setting since back in the 90's and I'm psyched but I'm looking for some suggestions for music for Dark Sun....

Dannyalcatraz · Jun 21, 2010

My first thoughts would be:

Dune soundtrack
Last Temptation of Christ soundtrack
Tangerine Dream albums like Atem
Vangelis albums like Soil Festivities or (I'm not kidding) Antarctica
Almost anything by Kodo, but their soundtrack to The Hunted in particular.
Phillip Glass' Koyaanisqatsi and Powaqqatsi.
Earth's album The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull

I could suggest others, but knowing your- or your group's- general taste in music would help.

deadsmurf · Jun 21, 2010

I dunno, you need to find something that makes you feel oppressed or evokes deserts.

Off the top of my head, something like tribal drumming, classic arabian music... or something like the soundtrack to the mummy, and its sequels.

Chainsaw · Jun 21, 2010

Dannyalcatraz said:
Dune soundtrack

Maybe the Dune videogame music would work, if you could find it somehow. BITD, I would slip my "Outpost" CD in my 486 and we'd have the music playing the background as we played. Worked pretty well.

Mouseferatu · Jun 21, 2010

How has nobody mentioned the Conan score?

Dannyalcatraz · Jun 21, 2010

It 'asn't got sand all over it.

Aran Thule · Jun 21, 2010

When we played dark sun ages ago i remember our DM playing the stargate soundtrack looped.

Cor_Malek · Jun 21, 2010

Fallout (1 and 2) soundtrack, but definitely as an interlude, softened by propositions from posts above. It is ambient music enhancing the feel of desolation, almost at subliminal level, and despite of setting - it fits any desolate place.

Both can be found at NMA portal (I presume that not in an illegal way, or else Bethesda would be all over their asses by now. They took to court someone who had created the damn thing, they sure as hell would sue portal that criticises them all the time

):
Fallout 1 Soundtrack
Fallout 2 Soundtrack

Klaus · Jun 21, 2010

Mouseferatu said:
How has nobody mentioned the Conan score?

Well, now you have.

Anything with a "barbaric" feel works well. Other soundtracks I'd recommend are:

- 13th Warrior
- Gladiator
- Solomon Kane

crazy_monkey1956 · Jun 21, 2010

I ran Bloodsand Arena last night with the soundtrack to the newer Planet of the Apes playing (music by Danny Elfman). Perfection in a bottle as far as fitting the mood and style of the setting goes.