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Message no. 1
From: GuayII@***.com GuayII@***.com
Subject: Shadowrun Music (was:Props)
Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 02:48:41 EDT
In a message dated Mon, 15 May 2000 10:36:28 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Wavy Davy
<ctysmd@***.leeds.ac.uk> writes:

<< If any of ya do, what do you use? Bands, genres, whatever?
Also, has anyone written any SR inspired music? I'm in the process of
doing so, and would be interested to here any other material out
there. >>

Well, recently I used Information Society for DJ music when the group met the Johnson in a
club. The latest dance craze was a revival of a style described in SR1 or 2. The music
where they turn the music up and add a sub-bass/woofer type instrament and people
"dance" by lying down on the floor and trying not to move. I forget which book
it was described it (as part of a story.) Then a band came on and I played Hot Sauce
Johnson (a funk-ish band out of LA). It threw the players for a loop because they were
used NIN, Stabbing Westward, Incubus, ad nauseum.

Cash
Message no. 2
From: Phil Smith phil_urbanhell@*******.com
Subject: Shadowrun Music (was:Props)
Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 19:35:11 GMT
>From: GuayII@***.com

>In a message dated Mon, 15 May 2000 10:36:28 AM Eastern Daylight Time...

I love the way Cash takes no responcibility in the date on the message; he
tells it like it is :)>

>Well, recently I used Information Society for DJ music when the group met
>the Johnson in a club. The latest dance craze was a revival of a style
>described in SR1 or 2. The music where they turn the music up and add a
>sub-bass/woofer type instrament and people "dance" by lying down on the
>floor and trying not to move. I forget which book it was described it (as
>part of a story.) Then a band came on and I played Hot Sauce Johnson (a
>funk-ish band out of LA). It threw the players for a loop because they were
>used NIN, Stabbing Westward, Incubus, ad nauseum.

If I ever took the time to haul my modest music device downstairs I would
play the players the Bladerunner theme for runs, maybe breaking into some 3
Colours Red. I have just heard a club song on the radio, I normally hate
club music but I may just buy it and play it in a club scene, mostly beacuse
I know they will hate it.

The problem is that if I played them anything they recognised they would
sing along then decend into an arguement about musical tastes. So I have
left that one alone.

Phil
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Message no. 3
From: C J Tipton arkades@****.com
Subject: Shadowrun Music (was props)
Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 15:55:15 -0500
I've always believed that the key to a shadowrun atmosphere is staying
eclectic. City speak ( see Bladerunner, chump!)
is the most obvious example of this, but there are alot of others. The
Seoul-Pa ain't all Koreans ya know.
When you think Cyberpunk music, Billy Idol probably comes up, but
traditionally the genre includes:
Reggae(read Gibson)
Celtic Folk music( pagans...sheesh!)
Amerind folk music ( In the NAN?!?Nooo!)
Big band/Swing/Ska (Retro Anarchy!)
"Freedom Rock" (More Retro Anarchy!)
American Bandstand/Motown Sound( Need I repeat myself)

And from the examples given in Mercurial, the rock power ballad is back
with a vengeance.
I run a game in Berlin ('nother posting), and I gotta tell you the look I
got mixing Skorpions, Bennie Goodman,
Louis Armstrong, Metallica, the Beatles, and koto music was worth the
cost of the cd's easily.

(I shoulda been a) COWBOY
CJ
Arkades@****.com
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