Comments on: Defcon

Question: Defcon

DieHipsterDie — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 18:44:15 -0800

Please name this music...

Anyone recognize the music used for this trailer? Or is it likely written for the game itself? If so, please recommend similar music or artists.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgSGekp9kvE

By: GeekAnimator

GeekAnimator — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 18:52:29 -0800

This might be up your alley

By: mediareport

mediareport — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 18:54:43 -0800

Please name this music...

Frank.

Sorry, bad joke. But that's clearly yer basic ambient music, circa 1985 or so. Try Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works, KLF, Tangerine Dream (check the samples) and a host of other gentle, mildly dark "chillout" music from the 90s.

By: DieHipsterDie

DieHipsterDie — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 18:59:05 -0800

Thanks

By: tellurian

tellurian — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 19:08:44 -0800

Is it Al Lindsay?

By: empath

empath — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 19:09:20 -0800

Written for the game itself. And yes, mid 90s 'chill-out' is what you're looking for.

I love this cd set un unholy ways:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Chilled-Out-Euphoria-Digitally-Mixed/dp/B00005NDY7

It's out of print, but if you look at the tracklistings, you'll see a lot of good tracks to look for.

By: nightwood

nightwood — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 19:11:40 -0800

According to the credits, ALISTAIR LINDSAY oversaw "the production of an entire hours worth of original music"

By: DieHipsterDie

DieHipsterDie — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 19:13:35 -0800

Dear god, does this mean I have some new age tendencies?

Ugh. ;-)

By: tellurian

tellurian — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 19:21:30 -0800

Buy it here or if you have the game get it like this.

By: tellurian

tellurian — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 19:24:01 -0800

Sorry, I see GeekAnimator has already done that.

By: mediareport

mediareport — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 22:17:53 -0800

does this mean I have some new age tendencies?

Ah, don't worry. Genre boundaries are always blurry, so, yeah, there's some overlap between "new age" and ambient music. To me, though, ambient is more challenging in general; it doesn't approach things with such an obvious pleasant/healing agenda, is usually more experimental and the good stuff is as likely to unsettle your nerves as calm them. New age is generally more bland, so if you find yourself liking the bland sort of ambient, then you might start to worry.

By: atomly

atomly — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 23:57:18 -0800

Selected Ambient Works was already suggested, but if you're into this trailer, there's about a 95% chance you'll love Selected Ambient Works Volume II by Aphex Twin. I love both SAWs, but the music on Volume II is much closer to this trailer than 85-92.

By: Goofyy

Goofyy — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 03:36:06 -0800

Y'all love knocking New Age. It was just something for folks to enjoy that were getting bored with pop, while being too old to enjoy metal. Some of it was no better than Easy Listening that my father liked. Other was extremely tripfull, every bit as juicy as the best ambient.

And then, there was the music that came before New Age. Some of it was classical, done in synthesizers (Isao Tomita). Some was classical styled, but new work (Synergy). What they share is the rich textures, like your example.

Sadly, a lot of the non-mainstream music from the 70s has been forgotten. But it definitly was a heavy influence on the ambiet and electronica that came latter.

By: rhizome

rhizome — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 11:09:43 -0800

The Aphex Twin ambient stuff (SAW II) is a bit more discordant than this, and Tomita, KLF (Chill Out is their only relevant album here), and Tangerine Dream are all going to be a lot more rhythmic and dense. For nice-drone like this you might check Michael Stearns, Robert Rich, Tetsu Inoue, or maybe Vidna Obmana.