Music for a Cyberpunk future?

[jdrakeh]

This playlist sounds more like you trying to show off your industrial cred than it does like adding something meaningful to the game.

Nice, thoroughly insulting, threadcrap.

 

[jdrakeh]

To me, the cyberpunk world isn't just about technology, but about how that tech shrinks the world, making all kinds of combinations possible. That's why you have so many cyberpunk stories, novels and movies using linguistic patois of Asian and European languages, mash-ups of different artistic asthetic sensibilities, and so forth.

I won't list songs, but I will list artists who on some level would fit right in to some niche a cyberpunk world:

Godflesh
Machines of Loving Grace
God Lives Underwater
Bjork
Tricky
Ministry
50,000 Homo DJs
MC 900ft Jesus
Pigface
Tackhead
Portishead
NIN
Nitzer Ebb
KMFDM
Buckethead
Lush
Curve
Helios Creed
David Bowie
Tin Machine
Robert Fripp
Adrian Belew
King Crimson (1980s on)
Brian Eno (specifically Nerve Net)
Sisters of Mercy
Tangerine Dream (early stuff, up to the mid 1980s)
Killing Joke
Static X
Skunk Anansie
William Orbit
Bill Laswell
Material
Praxis
Painkiller
Karsh Kale
Roni Size
Nicky Skopelitis
David Sylvan

Wow! That's a huge list. I'll have to check some of those artists out who I'm unfamiliar with.

 

[jdrakeh]

I put together a few tapes of music for a Cyberpunk game I ran back in college. I had access to the college radio station's record collection (yes, records, on vinyl) and so was able to get a lot of interesting stuff. Off the top of my head:

"Night Falls over Western Europe" by Cassandra Complex (on their Cyberpunx album)
"Get Back" by Laibach
"Rip Her to Shreds" by Blondie
"So What" by Ministry
"Stigmata" by Ministry
"Interstellar Overdrive" by Pink Floyd
"Burn, Hollywood, Burn" by Public Enemy
"Information Overload" by Living Colour
"Astronomy Domine" by Voivod
"Welcome to the Jungle" by Guns and Roses
"Mongoloid" by Devo
I think I also had some Killing Joke and MC Spider.

If I were making one now, I'd be sure to add some Rammstein. They seem pretty cyberpsycho to me.

That seems like a pretty fitting list of songs. I'll be sure to check those out, too.

 

[Desdichado]

Nice, thoroughly insulting, threadcrap.

Heh. I wondered if you might take it that way. You've got a habit of jumping straight to "insulted" whenever you get a suggestion that disagrees with something you've already expressed.

Oh, well---oh, hey... what happened to the Ignore List mention?

 

[Umbran]

Wow. This stops here and now. Both of you know better.

 

[Elphilm]

No mention of Suicide yet? For shame!

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrPVB29xcpY]YouTube - Suicide Mr. Ray[/ame]

 

[ProtoClone]

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!

Knowing all of those bands and their sound I think you have a solid list.

 

[Jhaelen]

Well, there's been tons of (good!) suggestions for industrial bands and tracks, so far. Like Dannyalcatraz, I think, you should definitely add some other styles to the mix. Since you aren't looking for instrumentals, I can only think of one band to add to the already quite comprehensive list:

Tracks from Radiohead - 'Kid A' and/or 'Amnesiac'

Both albums have a very futuristic sound, imho.

I'd definitely include Portishead, btw. Check out 'Machine Gun' from 'Third'!

 

[thorian]

Here is a short list of cyberpunk sounds.

Front Line Assembly (the definitive cyberpunk band in my mind)
Front 242
Velvet Acid Christ
SITD
Grendel
Combichrist
Haujobb (older stuff)
Funker Vogt
God Module
Hocico
Wumpscut
VNV Nation
Covenant
Imperative Reaction
In Strict Confidence
Leaether Strip
Noise Unit
Numb
The Retrosic
BiGod 20
Kraftwerk
Cabaret Voltaire
Nitzer Ebb

There are so many, but I think this is a good start in addition to the others you have listed.

 

[InVinoVeritas]

I've got to suggest Frontline Assembly and the early Delerium stuff here. I also find Black Light Burns' Cruel Melody album.

I especially enjoy "Gave Up" by Nine Inch Nails, but specifically the version on the Fixed LP.

But who am I kidding? I don't have the cred.