Creepy Atmospheric Music suggestions?

[NewJeffCT]

I find Tubular Bells and stuff like it pulls my players out of the moment, because of the incredibly strong cultural attachments. It's meta.

good point on that - thanks for making it.

 

[El Mahdi]

Celine Dion and Kenny G...?

 

[NewJeffCT]

There's a whole thread that is essentially a database of music related threads, each of which is chock full of good ideas:

http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-rpg-discussion/174448-game-related-music-threads-links.html

The drone band Earth has all kinds of stuff that would be appropriate, as would the work of extreme guitarist Buckethead's recordings as Death Cube K. You could also get some mileage out of the compositions of Glen Branca.

In a different direction, check out the groups Kronos Quartet and Apocalyptica.

Thanks - I had good luck a few years back in finding a good song to emulate the harpy's song: it was an a capella woman's group called The Magic of Bulgarian Voices that worked out well: [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdqjcW8u7Lw]YouTube - HNY 2011 - The MAGIC Of Bulgarian Voices & Music - Malka Moma / Little girl - LIVE (Gold collection)[/ame]

It's a capella, as harpies don't carry instruments, and it is foreign and sounds lovely (IMO)

 

[El Mahdi]

Easy.
The score from the game Thief: Deadly Shadows would easily fit. It is ambient music and works okay if you just want to loop a particular track.
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Andrew Gale
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Dude, those are so cool. Also, the way you embedded them, you can play all of them at the same time. They actually work pretty good layered on top of eachother.

 

[NewJeffCT]

Celine Dion and Kenny G...?

I think that would drive the PCs to suicide... if not the players themselves as well.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

A soundtrack with a nice eerie feel is Peter Gabriel's The Last Temptation of Christ.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

It may surprise some, but some works of Vangelis and Tangerine Dream can be quite dark, in some cases, veering deeply into psychedelia.

For Vangelis, check out his CD, Themes, which includes some of his work from movies like Bladerunner and Antarctica- the latter is a little known stunner- or the more mellow Soil Festivities.

With TD, check out Atem, Sorcerer, Stratosfear and so forth.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Oh yeah- Western sensibilities may be unnerved a bit by music from other cultures- like Tibetan Throat Music- or the sounds of unusual instruments like crystal organs, singing bowls or fire organs.

 

[jaerdaph]

These are my favorites for horror gaming music:

Midnight Syndicate

Nox Arcana (available at RPGNow)

And I recently discovered Sonic Legends (also at RPGNow)

 

[NewJeffCT]

Oh yeah- Western sensibilities may be unnerved a bit by music from other cultures- like Tibetan Throat Music- or the sounds of unusual instruments like crystal organs, singing bowls or fire organs.

unnerving is good in this case.