![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Something I've been considering doing for games is putting together soundtracks for specific locations and specific moods I want to set.
Moods aren't hard, but locations are. I'm not looking for "music you would hear in this location", but "music that fits the feeling of this location".
Places I definitely want to have lists for:
Baator (lawful, evil, hell)
Ysgard (chaotic, good - Norse gods and the like)
Sigil (the city between the planes, half-alien, half-familiar, jaded, cynical, cosmopolitan)
Haelthan (think of Philip Pullman's Cambridge crossed with Medieval Paris - a university town, jammed to the rafters with wizards and scholars, a place everyone goes at some point)
Setting (Helsinki/Galway - coastal, a calm city at the heart of a trading empire, with a very long history and many long-standing traditions)
Velarin (London-like city, byzantine politics, and almost all trade in the continent goes through it - or used to until very recently)
Windhowl (an academy of necromancers and summoners, pretty much evil to the core, but very civilised, if alien)
The Moon Road (a plane/planar pathway, from which dreams can be seen and stepped into)
There'll probably be more posts like this in the future, too. What I'm looking for are actual tracks, rather than just bands - ideally, I'd like to know the track, the band and the album I can get it from. And then I shall start on putting CDs together. Suggestions?
(I have to credit![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
shadesong with some of the movement towards getting these lists together; she's posting what's effectively a soundtrack to the movie of herself at a rate of two tracks every weekend.)
Moods aren't hard, but locations are. I'm not looking for "music you would hear in this location", but "music that fits the feeling of this location".
Places I definitely want to have lists for:
Baator (lawful, evil, hell)
Ysgard (chaotic, good - Norse gods and the like)
Sigil (the city between the planes, half-alien, half-familiar, jaded, cynical, cosmopolitan)
Haelthan (think of Philip Pullman's Cambridge crossed with Medieval Paris - a university town, jammed to the rafters with wizards and scholars, a place everyone goes at some point)
Setting (Helsinki/Galway - coastal, a calm city at the heart of a trading empire, with a very long history and many long-standing traditions)
Velarin (London-like city, byzantine politics, and almost all trade in the continent goes through it - or used to until very recently)
Windhowl (an academy of necromancers and summoners, pretty much evil to the core, but very civilised, if alien)
The Moon Road (a plane/planar pathway, from which dreams can be seen and stepped into)
There'll probably be more posts like this in the future, too. What I'm looking for are actual tracks, rather than just bands - ideally, I'd like to know the track, the band and the album I can get it from. And then I shall start on putting CDs together. Suggestions?
(I have to credit
shadesong with some of the movement towards getting these lists together; she's posting what's effectively a soundtrack to the movie of herself at a rate of two tracks every weekend.)![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
From:
no subject
Ysgard: Wagner, who else? But nothing so cheesy as RotV. Also, if you can find it, there's a CD called "Jazz Wolf" under the Northsound label. Mellow Jazz, interspliced with wolf packs howling. Great background music.
Setting: Afro-Celt Sound System
Haelthan: Dead Can Dance