Everything's more exciting with BRAAAAAAAAAM.
October 5, 2016 12:41 PM Subscribe
I've found that Hans Zimmer's musical scores for the Christopher Nolan Batman films as well as (god help me) the Zack Snyder Superman films are absolutely perfect as music for me to work to -- a combination of urgent/propulsive and melodic that lets me focus and build a rhythm. What else might work for me along these lines?
Hans Zimmer also scored the movie Inception, so there's another one to put with the Batman & Superman. Definitely a bunch of BRAWAAAAPs.
Could also suggest the new Tron movie soundtrack done by Daft Punk for this, though not quite as BRAAAAAMmy.
posted by foxfirefey at 12:47 PM on October 5, 2016 [1 favorite]
Could also suggest the new Tron movie soundtrack done by Daft Punk for this, though not quite as BRAAAAAMmy.
posted by foxfirefey at 12:47 PM on October 5, 2016 [1 favorite]
Along with Hans Zimmer, the other kings of this genre are Jeremy Soule and Michael Giacchino - their Movie/Game Original Soundtrack work is pretty great. I was just listening to the Dawn of War soundtrack for work!
posted by Karaage at 12:51 PM on October 5, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by Karaage at 12:51 PM on October 5, 2016 [1 favorite]
The Halo Soundtracks can be good for this. Some examples below that I think of as exercise music, but would probably work for your purpose as well.
Halo 5 - Trials
Halo 5 - Scavengers
Halo 3 - One Final Effort
posted by selfnoise at 1:01 PM on October 5, 2016
Halo 5 - Trials
Halo 5 - Scavengers
Halo 3 - One Final Effort
posted by selfnoise at 1:01 PM on October 5, 2016
I really like Solar Fields for working to, though it does more pulsing propulsion than your full-scale BRAAAM. I've linked to Movements, which is my favourite album, but they're all good to work to. I like old Solar, because he uploads the full album mix to YouTube. Bless you, sir
H.U.V.A. network, which is an associated act, is a bit more dance-ish, but also a bit more BRAAAM! in places. This is the album Ephemeris
John Murphy is also good, as someone above said, especially his soundtrack to Sunshine, which has Adagio in D Minor (i.e. The Trailer Music For Every Space Movie Requiring SensaWunda (TM) to be evoked)
You could also try a bit of Clint Mansell, who wrote the other piece of trailer music you hear everywhere, Lux Aeterna
Tycho is more on the dance spectrum but has that pounding impulsion that gets me working. This is the full album of Epoch
Finally, my favourite for anything where I want my brain to be happy but also free to work on other stuff is Ulrich Schnauss. This is A Strangely Isolated Place, from his second album. His earlier stuff is pretty much like this with faster or slower variants. If you don't like click sounds and ambient shoegazery soundwashes, all of it may not be for you, but some tracks do have that urgency.
posted by finisterre at 2:03 PM on October 5, 2016 [1 favorite]
H.U.V.A. network, which is an associated act, is a bit more dance-ish, but also a bit more BRAAAM! in places. This is the album Ephemeris
John Murphy is also good, as someone above said, especially his soundtrack to Sunshine, which has Adagio in D Minor (i.e. The Trailer Music For Every Space Movie Requiring SensaWunda (TM) to be evoked)
You could also try a bit of Clint Mansell, who wrote the other piece of trailer music you hear everywhere, Lux Aeterna
Tycho is more on the dance spectrum but has that pounding impulsion that gets me working. This is the full album of Epoch
Finally, my favourite for anything where I want my brain to be happy but also free to work on other stuff is Ulrich Schnauss. This is A Strangely Isolated Place, from his second album. His earlier stuff is pretty much like this with faster or slower variants. If you don't like click sounds and ambient shoegazery soundwashes, all of it may not be for you, but some tracks do have that urgency.
posted by finisterre at 2:03 PM on October 5, 2016 [1 favorite]
Best answer: You, my friend, want TWO STEPS FROM HELL! Here's a 4 hour youtube mix of their best stuff.
posted by Major Matt Mason Dixon at 2:04 PM on October 5, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by Major Matt Mason Dixon at 2:04 PM on October 5, 2016 [1 favorite]
Pretty much anything by Ramin Djawadi. I particularly like his Person of Interest soundtrack albums and if you really want to go for something bombastic there's Pacific Rim. (He also did the soundtrack for Game of Thrones although I find for myself that the music is so evocative of the series it sometimes pulls me out of concentrating on my work.)
posted by Major Clanger at 2:40 PM on October 5, 2016
posted by Major Clanger at 2:40 PM on October 5, 2016
I loooove the Mad Max: Fury Road soundtrack for working. Nice driving beat.
posted by restless_nomad at 3:20 PM on October 5, 2016
posted by restless_nomad at 3:20 PM on October 5, 2016
The Mass Effect 3 soundtrack is full of BRAAAAAAM but I didn't like it because I was quite fond of the previous composer in Mass Effect 2. Listen to both and see which you like?
posted by Nyx at 4:46 PM on October 5, 2016
posted by Nyx at 4:46 PM on October 5, 2016
My husband finds movie / tv soundtracks similarly suitable for working. Some soundtracks he can often be heard pootling around to along with Zimmer:
Clint Mansell - Moon
Cliff Martinez - The Knick, Solaris
And if you're in the market for something a bit wonky - Cristobal Tapia de Veer - Humans, Utopia
posted by Ness at 8:24 AM on October 6, 2016
Clint Mansell - Moon
Cliff Martinez - The Knick, Solaris
And if you're in the market for something a bit wonky - Cristobal Tapia de Veer - Humans, Utopia
posted by Ness at 8:24 AM on October 6, 2016
Hans Zimmer also did the original Transformers score, and I HIGHLY recommend it for anything when you need motivation. The studio almost didn't release the score (just the garbage rock soundtrack), and fans begged until they made it available.
posted by a fiendish thingy at 12:41 PM on October 6, 2016
posted by a fiendish thingy at 12:41 PM on October 6, 2016
Major Matt Mason Dixon is absolutely correct. Two Steps From Hell has been on heavy, heavy rotation in my playlists for a couple of months now.
Do not neglect looking for albums by Thomas Bergersen, half of the Two Steps team (the other being Nick Phoenix). His album Miracles is a bit gentler, so may not be what you want.
E.S. Posthumous are also big in the trailer music space (and were there before Two Steps From Hell). There are others, such as Audiomachine.
posted by lhauser at 1:39 PM on October 7, 2016
Do not neglect looking for albums by Thomas Bergersen, half of the Two Steps team (the other being Nick Phoenix). His album Miracles is a bit gentler, so may not be what you want.
E.S. Posthumous are also big in the trailer music space (and were there before Two Steps From Hell). There are others, such as Audiomachine.
posted by lhauser at 1:39 PM on October 7, 2016
My personal list of instrumental music for concentrating at work includes:
Donnie Darko soundtrack - Michael Andrews
Conan the Barbarian soundtrack - Basil Poledouris
Ghosts I-IV - Nine Inch Nails
Tron Legacy soundtrack - Daft Punk
Selected tracks from Requiem for a Dream soundtrack - Clint Mansell
posted by JJtheJetPlane at 11:46 AM on October 17, 2016
Donnie Darko soundtrack - Michael Andrews
Conan the Barbarian soundtrack - Basil Poledouris
Ghosts I-IV - Nine Inch Nails
Tron Legacy soundtrack - Daft Punk
Selected tracks from Requiem for a Dream soundtrack - Clint Mansell
posted by JJtheJetPlane at 11:46 AM on October 17, 2016
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