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Title: Making a playlist - need help.
Post by: Nospherat on October 10, 2013, 04:27:47 pm

So, I'm making a playlist, as stated, and I need your help.

I need things with a heavy dark atmosphere to fit an apocalyptic world. Preferably instrumental but not mandatory.

So far, I have:

 Walid Feghali - Empty world (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMpTaxWFmUA)
 John Murphy - In a heartbeat (28 days later OST)  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ST2H8FWDvEA)
 Tomandandy - Tokyo (resident Evil OST)  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBSKSIxnGjI)
 Zack Hemsey - The Way  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oN2Xs-MvxLw)
 zYnthetic - The stitches are a reminder (Killing Floor OST) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vee0COnL-I&list=PL815D4D1865A20A96)
Hans Zimmer - Time (Inception OST)  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxabLA7UQ9k)

And I'm scouring the earth (and youtube) for dark ambient tracks that have the distinct "we're all gonna die" vibe to them.

Care to help me?
Please?

Title: Re: Making a playlist - need help.
Post by: Mesa on October 10, 2013, 04:32:37 pm

GRV Music - Darkness (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktBtwBj0xnU)
Two Steps From Hell - Tyrianis (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYzJQ5FERkc) (not really "ambient", but it's dark for sure)

Title: Re: Making a playlist - need help.
Post by: Nospherat on October 10, 2013, 04:45:19 pm

Ah, one more thing, less "heroic apocalyptic battle" and more "hopeless dark", I'll ask for that separately.
(I'm frequently listening to Two steps from hell archangel/defenders of the eath/to glory)


This is the "bleak" playlist. :)

Title: Re: Making a playlist - need help.
Post by: RNK6 on October 10, 2013, 10:39:41 pm

if this is just for personal use, then you may be interested in the extremely lonely portal 2 complete soundtrack. somehow it has an entirely different feel than the game itself, especially part one. just listen to ghost of rattman (http://grooveshark.com/#!/s/Ghost+Of+Rattman/5bktUY?src=5) or potatos lament. doug rattman is one sad little man  :(

also, anything from plasma3music will be amazing, but i'm not sure if he has any depressing music. check him out anyway, he deserves mor attention than he gets.

Title: Re: Making a playlist - need help.
Post by: Shook on October 11, 2013, 04:43:08 am

Well, not sure if you want other entire playlists on their own, but this one is pretty dark and bleak (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiHjceyENz4). Special mention in my eyes going to the track at 6:32, even though it's more "we're past the end and everything is dead" and less "we're approaching the end and everything is going to die". Despite what my usual demeanour suggests, i have a soft spot for really dark music. :U

Title: Re: Making a playlist - need help.
Post by: Draxis on October 11, 2013, 07:16:53 pm

I recommend the Homeworld (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3SOaUvoakI) Cataclysm (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdLF8MRg0i8) soundtrack (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3GcvqtO_7Y).  Not all of them are that bleak, but they are all ambient and mostly dark.

Title: Re: Making a playlist - need help.
Post by: Max White on October 11, 2013, 08:47:48 pm

Quote from: Nospherat on October 10, 2013, 04:45:19 pm

Ah, one more thing, less "heroic apocalyptic battle" and more "hopeless dark", I'll ask for that separately.
(I'm frequently listening to Two steps from hell archangel/defenders of the eath/to glory)


This is the "bleak" playlist. :)

Hopeless? Bleak? Heavy? Dark? Instrumental?
My friend, have you ever heard of Post Rock? It is almost a genera of what you need.
Mogwai - Hunted By A Freak (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8psR9I1pwg) should get you started.

Title: Re: Making a playlist - need help.
Post by: Aqizzar on October 11, 2013, 10:01:45 pm

Quote from: Nospherat on October 10, 2013, 04:27:47 pm

apocalyptic world.

Well as a matter of fact

Quote from: Nospherat on October 10, 2013, 04:27:47 pm

dark ambient tracks

Oh.  Well, they're not instrumental, but a lot of (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhJbqzULa2w) Tool songs (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_z2O289Jemo) are long enough and light enough oh lyrics that they're almost ambient.  And of course there's always the Fallout soundtrack.

I have other (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6EFg5eWWlM) recommendations (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5ra5-rAoH0) for apocalyptic music, but it's pretty much the opposite of what you're looking for.