Sci-Fi Music

[londo_mollari]

What would be good Sci-Fi CD. I got few with music from the movies and TV series, but could you recomend any good original work. <br />Something done with orchestar and some electro music.Combined or separate would be fine. Thanx.

 

[rhodan]

The Solaris ( Soderbergh remake) soundtrack is really nice. As for the techno; the Matrix soundtrack has a couple of great tracks.

 

[londo_mollari]

Cool.<br />Ive got Ennio but its all music from Westerns, which is still preaty cool.<br />Have anyone listened to French duo Air? Their first album "Moon Safari" is soo good, too me its real good sci-fi electro music.

 

[rhodan]

Not really a soundtrack, but The Orb's Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld is the ultimate 'space' album, imho. Loungy stuff though, but with a lot of launch noises and mission control babble (in Russian too! <img src="/images/icons/cool.gif" /> ) mixed in with the Flash Gordon quotes and hypnotic beats. If you enjoy Air, you will enjoy this album.

 

[vogon13]

Always liked the soundtrack from Forbidden Planet. It was reused on the Lost In Space pilot but not the series.<br /><br />Not really sci-fi, but soundtrack from Crash (the Cronenberg one) is excellent, and probably impossible to find.<br /><br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#ff0000"><strong>TPTB went to Dallas and all I got was Plucked !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#339966"><strong>So many people, so few recipes !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#0000ff"><strong>Let's clean up this stinkhole !!</strong></font> </p> </div>

 

[CalliArcale]

From your username, I figure you're already aware of Christopher Franke's magnificent scores for "Babylon 5". <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /> They're actually not synthesized; for the most part, they are orchestral, performed by the Berlin Philharmonic. There is a surprisingly large volume of original work written for that series. Most series tend to reuse scores as much as possible to save money, but not B5.<br /><br />"The Day the Earth Stood Still" has a fantastic score, featuring an instrument which was at the time quite novel: the theremin. It's an electronic instrument that produces a bizarre wailing sound. Unfortunately, it was so effective for the movie that quite a lot of movies afterwards used it as well, so it won't sound as novel as it did originally. But it's a great soundtrack.<br /><br />"2001" used entirely classical music not written for the movie, but it's all fantastic. (There was a score written, but for some reason, Kubrick decided not to use it.)<br /><br />"X-Men" had a good score, written by the illustrious (and Oscar-winning) Michael Kamen. He also wrote a lovely score for the movie "Highlander" which is often ignored. People think "Highlander" and they think "Queen", but there is this magnificent score by Kamen that really sells a lot of the movie. He wrote this fantastic, epic, sweeping sound. <br /><br />I'm also a bit of a fan of Danny Elfman. He's teamed up particularly with Tim Burton, but he's scored other things too. He's got a rather baroque feel to his music -- lots of wonderful fugues. I love that really complex sort of music. He also uses bassoons well, and as I am an amateur bassoonist, that has a certain gratification. <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /> Check out any of his scores. Very good stuff.<br /><br />I've never found a CD with this on it, but the score for "Time Bandits" is also very nice. Well, I liked it anyway. <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /> It's got just the right feel for the movie. And while I' <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><font color="#666699"><em>"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly . . . timey wimey . . . stuff."</em>  -- The Tenth Doctor, "Blink"</font></p> </div>

 

[londo_mollari]

Thanx.<br />Of course, Cristopher, I forgot about him.<br />Ill try to get some of these and see how I go.

 

[londo_mollari]

Hi guys. I'm currently working and listening to Kraftwerk's "Man-Machine" album. IMO its great sci-fi album, esp "Space Lab" song <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" />. <br />I also have few CDs with original themes from movies and series, heaps of fun. <br />Can anyone recomend any artists or bands that have similar style to Kraftwerk or any other good sci-fi music CD?<br /><br />Thanks

 

[PistolPete]

I'm not familiar with his work, however I always thought Pink Floyd's <i>Wish You Were Here</i> would make an excellent Sci-Fi soundtrack. Specifically <i>Welcome to the Machine</i> and the instrumental parts of <i>Shine On You Crazy Diamond</i>. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><em>So, again we are defeated. This victory belongs to the farmers, not us.</em></p><p><strong>-Kambei Shimada from the movie Seven Samurai</strong></p> </div>

 

[londo_mollari]

Thanks. You should try Kraftwerk, they are 1970s German band/artists and they are the initiators of electronic music. They were the first to use computers when creating music. Its very cool, trust me.

 

[PistolPete]

Then you'll definately like Pink Floyd, lots of keyboards & syntisthed sounds. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><em>So, again we are defeated. This victory belongs to the farmers, not us.</em></p><p><strong>-Kambei Shimada from the movie Seven Samurai</strong></p> </div>

 

[derekmcd]

Future Sound of London - Dead Cities<br /><br />Can't recommend this one enough... <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <div> </div><br /><div><span style="color:#0000ff" class="Apple-style-span">"If something's hard to do, then it's not worth doing." - Homer Simpson</span></div> </div>

 

[nightelf125]

Get Coldplay- Clocks. One of the best songs of all time, fits the sci-fi mood to.

 

[wmdragon]

there's lots of techno that makes me think scifi, although I find that an obvious association. off the top of my head Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works, Speedjack's Surge, and Crystal Method. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><font color="#993366"><em>The only laws of matter are those which our minds must fabricate, and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter.</em> <br /> --- James Clerk Maxwell</font></p> </div>

 

[andres08]

I am not sure, but my keys are working different. Many songs from radio are working healthy for our body and some people got health back only to listening so called healthy music. But there are much other song which are working destrucive on our mind and body. Sorry, they are over 80%.<br /><br /> I also know girl with a bad dreams. Many nights every week have she dreamed about how her boyfriend sucking her blood, how is he trying to kill her e.t.c.<br /><br />After only two days of listening and exchanging music over msn, she begun to sleep very well. But there are much more harder samples, believe me. <br /><br />Andres

 

[rhodan]

<i>...off the top of my head Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works...</i><br /><br />Very good pick; there are two albums, part I & II, and I like part I best.<br /><br />Another classic sci-fi album is 'The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld'...as spacy as it gets, with samples from Flash Gordon, Russian mission control, launch noises and a whole lot more...one of my favorite all time albums.

 

[londo_mollari]

Thanks guys, will try to get some from the list.