Music for a Cyberpunk future?

[jdrakeh]

I'm looking to throw together a playlist of appropriate music for use with Cyberpunk/dystopian future games that I run. So far, my play list looks something like this:

• Addiction by Skinny puppy (Cleanse Fold and Manipulate)
• Assimilate by Skinny Puppy (Bites)
• Big Mess by Devo (Oh, No! It's Devo)
• Eiskalt Erwischt by Eisbrecher (Antikorper)
• Entlassen by Eisbrecher (Antikorper)
• Flashback by Ministry (The Land of Rape and Honey)
• Heilig by Eisbrecher (Sunde)
• I Prefer by Ministry (The Land of Rape and Honey)
• Kein Mitleid by Eisbrecher (Antikorper)
• Kuss by Eisbrecher (Sunde)
• Language of Reality by Die Krupps (Rings of Steel)
• Metal Machine Music by Die Krupps (Die Krupps)
• Naked by Fanoe (Empire Dirt)
• Nature's Revenge by Skinny Puppy (Too Dark Park)
• One by Die Krupps (Die Krupps)
• Sakrileg 11 by Eisbrecher (Eisbrecher)
• Skin and Bones by Fanoe (Down to Heaven)
• Smart Patrom/Mr. DNA by Devo (Duty Now for the Future)
• Testure by Skinny Puppy (VIVIsectVI)
• The Equalizer Equalizing by Stewart Copeland (Sounds of the Eighties)
• The Land of Rape and Honey by Ministry (The Land of Rape and Honey)
• The Power by Die Krupps (Die Krupps)
• Tin Omen by Skinny Puppy (Rabies)
• Vergissmeinnicht by Eisbrecher (Antikorper)
• We Started This Opera by Various (Repo: The Genetic Opera)
• You Bleed Me (909 Mix) by Suspiria (Dancefloor Tragedy)
• Zeichen der Venus by Eisbrecher (Eisbrecher)
• Zero by Fanoe (Empire Dirt)
• Zucker Zucker by Schoengeist (Demo Track)

Any other suggestions are welcome!

 

[ggroy]

One really cheesy title is Billy Idol's "Cyberpunk" cd.

 

[TreChriron]

Front242
Stabbing Westward
Machines of Loving Grace (early stuff)
NIN
Rob Zombie
Soundtrack to Strange Days
Soundtrack to Blade Runner
Apoptygma Berzerk
(German Techno of any sort) EDIT: You know German Techno Die Krupps ftw!

 

[Umbran]

I'll suggest something in a slightly different musical style - Warren Zevon's album "Transverse City" is dystopian-future themed.

I might also suggest Dead Can Dance, and Boiled in Lead as groups you might want to look into.

 

[Herschel]

Queensryche's "Rage For Order" album is great cyberpunk music. Most anything by KMFDM works well too.

 

[Filcher]

Soundtrack to Blade Runner

Seconded.

Of topic: what game system?

Also off topic: The Springs have a great punk tradition in the face of the Air Force Cadets/Family Values contingent.

 

[jdrakeh]

Seconded.

I actually have that, but was trying to stay away from largely instrumental stuff (Kuss being the sole exception on my list so far).

Of topic: what game system?

For the most part, I use The Window via the old Mana Bros. conversion. Their English isn't so great, but the idea of Awesome is universal.

Also off topic: The Springs have a great punk tradition in the face of the Air Force Cadets/Family Values contingent.

Yeah, my buddy Doug actually played lead guitar for Cobra Kai a few years back. Good times!

 

[Doug McCrae]

Cyberpunk is irredeemably 80s, the music should reflect that.

Sigue Sigue Sputnik would be my first choice. The soundtrack for the film Doomsday has several great 80s songs from Adam & the Ants, Siouxsie and the Banshees and Frankie Goes To Hollywood.

 

[Cwheeler]

There's an old double-disk mix CD called Future Funk that has some good stuff on it.

I don't have the names of the artists though, just the tracks..

Inspection, Clank, Space Junk, and Born Slippery are probably the best.

Also, depending on what mood you're trying to capture, there's a whole F%#& load of different Psy-Trance out there.

 

[Cwheeler]

There's an old double-disk mix CD called Future Funk that has some good stuff on it.

I don't have the names of the artists though, just the tracks..

Inspection, Clank, Space Junk, and Born Slippery are probably the best.

Also, depending on what mood you're trying to capture, there's a whole F%#& load of different Psy-Trance out there.