Recommended listening for Dark*Matter

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I picked up the Alternity version of Dark*Matter and in the back they give a pretty good list of books websites and moves to look at but they don’t give any music. I figure adding a soundtrack to a modern game is pretty easy and adds a lot to the mood. So, what makes for good mysterious and conspiratorial music?

I’ll start off by saying: Tom Waits, “What’s He Building In There?”
 

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Dead Voices on Air - Halfted Maul. Is great for anything even vaguely Call of Cthulhu-ish.

Exceptionally rare, but cindytalk - Camouflage Heart. From 1984. To this day, some of the eeriest music you'll hear anywhere. Gordon Sharp also guest-sang on This Mortal Coil's It'll End in Tears, one of the finest pieces of music pressed to vinyl. (He sang Kangaroo.)

Diamanda Galas is usually a bit too jarring and unsettling for my tastes, but she'd be great for a demonic opera....
 
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Ranger REG said:
Isn't there an X-Files soundtrack album out?
Subtle difference between a sound track and a score, but the sound track is filled with pop songs, the score is filled with the spooky strings of the film.
 

Try (albums in bold, songs in italics):

King Crimson's Indicipline; THRAK; Thela Hun Gingeet, and Sleepless (the version from The Compact King Crimson).

Vangelis Soil Festivities (whole album)

Kodo The Hunted, almost anything from Mondo Head.

Brian Eno What Actually Happened; Distributed Being

Buckethead especially Colma, Death Cube K

Bill Laswell- almost anything he's ever done, including work as Chaos Face, with Material, or his Sacred System stuff.

For a harder edge:

Pigface Gub, especially Cylinder Head World
Godflesh Pure; Animal; Body Dome Light; Xnoibis.
 


Others to consider:

Peter Gabriel's The Last Temptation of Christ.

The Mars Volta...just about anything.

David Sylvan.

Tangerine Dream's earlier, darker stuff, like Atem

Some of Vangelis' soundtracks, like L'Apocalypse Des Animaux would work, but don't go for his stuff with Aphrodite's Child- its probably too prog/classic rock. China would also work- especially the track Himalaya. Also try to find his collection of soundtrack work, Themes, featuring stuff from Bladerunner, among others.
 

I just grabbed The Forbidden Planet Soundtrack, it'd be great for UFO and ET encounters.
These are good keep 'em coming!
 

Heck- anything with a Theramin on it could work for a sci-fi setting...scour the internet for the soundtracks to 1950's era sci-fi flicks.
 

Wraith Form said:
Subtle difference between a sound track and a score, but the sound track is filled with pop songs, the score is filled with the spooky strings of the film.
My Gladiator soundtrack doesn't have any pop song.

I like to think that a score is a specific type of soundtrack. :cool:
 

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