| From: | runnerpaul@*****.com runnerpaul@*****.com |
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| Subject: | Atmosphere Music(Was: Re: The Shadowrun Music CD) |
| Date: | Wed, 18 Aug 1999 17:40:38 -0400 (EDT) |
At 10:30 PM 8/18/99 +0200, Dennis Steinmeijer wrote:
:You have an absolutely kick ass collection of music.
Thank you.
Now, this was just the part of my collection that I think would be
good Shadowrun music. I've got some other stuff in there too, like
Reservoir Dogs, Clerks & Mallrats (soundtracks with too many dialogue
tracks to be practical as Shadowrun music), Wedding Singer (too 80s),
Supercop (Too campy), both South Park CDs, some other animation
soundtracks, Cats soundtrack, Mr. What, and some Billy Joel.
:I especially like The Crow Soundtrack (very gritty), Lost Highway
:(very LOUD), Mortal Kombat (I love those trendy Chemical Brother
:wannabees) and I'm listening to the Matrix Soundtrack right now!
:Anything done by NiN is nice, although I have to agree with
:Wildfire's earlier comment that you should have a lot of music
:without speech (or at least as little as possible), it tends to
:disctract more.
Songs with lyrics are good for "Chapter Break" pauses in the flow of
the gaming. You know the times, everyone's downed all the slices of
delivery pizza they were going to order, and the GM is making sure
that he's got all his ducks in a row before moving on to the next big
thing.
And for instrumentals, that's why I've got a lot of "scores" in the
collection and not just "soundtracks". In particular that's what I
use all the Babylon 5 CDs for. I mentioned that I had several of the
Babylon 5 "episodic" CDs; that part of my collection is actually up
to about fourteen discs with three more on order. Each one runs about
a half hour or so, no lyrics, and the occasional voiceover from the
show's opening credits. Since I usually skip the track with the
series theme and the voiceover anyways, this isn't a problem.
They work great as mood music, as composer Christopher Franke paints
a very vivid musical picture. Since each disc is the music from a
particular episode, you have to be a real B5 fanatic to recognize the
source. Sometimes a casual B5 fan will get a feeling of "I've heard
this before", but unless you play the theme music track, they won't
recognize it.
Christopher Franke also did another disc in my collection, the
soundtrack to Tenchi the Movie, and that one has some absolutely
jaw-dropping instrumentals too.
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