So, what're your favourite pieces of music? And where can people download them (legally!)?
At the moment, I'm into classical music, so mine are
=> Fantasia on a theme, by Ralf Vaughn Williams
=> valse Triste, by Jean Sibelius
=> Theme from Schindler's List, by John Williams
=> Prayer, by Ernest Bloch
You can download them from the VSL (Vienna Symphonic Library) demo zone: http://vsl.co.at/en/67/245/255.vsl . They're all so pretty... :)
Well, my favourite music changes constantly, but some tracks that I really love (in no particular order, except the first one :P):
Dead Lock (http://www.inetware.it/elwood/xm/deadlock.zip) by Elwood (XM)
Resolution (http://remix.kwed.org/sid.php/3287/Resolution%20%28subtune%201%29.sid) by DRAX (SID)
Insomnia by Faithless (no download, sorry :P)
the beach (http://scene.org/file_dl.php?url=ftp://ftp.scene.org/pub/parties/2003/tum03/mp3_ogg/wayfinder-the_beach.zip&id=202203) by wayfinder (OGG)
sofa surfin' (http://rufusul.de/scene/surfing.xm.zip) by falcon (XM)
Awakening (http://modarchive.org/data/downloads.php?moduleid=159613#coretex_-_awakening.xm) by CoreTex (XM)
I Can Seek (http://www.scene.ee/elwood/Elwood-I_Can_Seek.mp3) by Elwood (MP3)
Blast Off Forever (http://virt.vgmix.com/Virt_-_Blast_Off_Forever.mp3) by virt (MP3)
Sadeness by Enimga
Stigma (http://www.scene.org/file.php?file=/parties/2001/ambience01/demo/stigma_party.zip&fileinfo) by Crystal Score (very Enigma-Like, MP3)
Requiem (http://modarchive.org/data/downloads.php?moduleid=159788#lluvia_-_requiem.xm) by Lluvia (XM)
Letting go (http://modarchive.org/data/downloads.php?moduleid=46496#jt_letgo.xm) by Jeroen Tel (XM)
Album "Atomic Atmosphere" by Fitalic
Coolmind (ftp://ftp.scene.org/pub/parties/2002/assembly02/instrumentalmusic/coolmint_by_heatbeat_cncd.zip) by Heatbeat (MP3)
Hope Stays (http://cmt.siba.fi/paaltio/hope_stays.mp3) by Firestorm
World of Peace (http://modarchive.org/data/downloads.php?moduleid=64023#znm-wopeace.it) by Zanoma (IT)
The Alibi (Especially the adlib version (ftp://ftp.untergrund.net/users/rez/adlib/jch-the_alibi.zip)by JCH and the FRED amiga (http://hangar18.campus.luth.se/exotica/tunes/archive/FRED-FredEditor/FRED.Summertime.lha) version by Bug)
well, and a lot more tracks, but i just found those in my most played list in XMplay ;P
Box Five - (No Title) (http://shorl.com/hyloromasypy)
Neonbeat @ MySpace (http://www.myspace.com/neonbeatmusic) (especially the song called Raging Lights)
Difficult question. I don't have a specific favorite music style.
And sometimes for months I don't listen to music pieces anyway, because I deal with sounds already during my work,
and sometimes I got fed up with it for the rest of the time.
To be legal, I chose for some tubes :
Billy Cobham - Stratus http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ae3l12PM2c
Joe Zawinul,Trilok Gurtu Orient Express Part1 http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=922LumI2ilo
BLØF - Een Manier Om Thuis Te Komen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YBZ6VqDDIk
Herbie Hancock - Rockit http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=S7dAxvj2mlU
Isao Tomita - Gardens in the rain by Debussy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y8KyRKvFx8
King Crimson - In the court of the crimson king http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHkisNZH77Y
When speaking of classical music, I recommend...
- Beethoven - 5th Symphony (especially 1st movement)
- Gustav Holst - The planets: Mars
- Edward Elgar - Pomp and Circumstance March 1
- Jean Sibelius - Finlandia
More on orchestral music...
- any Star Wars soundtrack (my favourites include Imperial March and Droid Invasion Theme)
- Apollo 13 soundtrack (mainly "All systems go for the launch" and "Re-entry and splashdown")
Also, some game music is excellent.
- Supreme Commander soundtrack
- Total Annihilation soundtrack (http://www.fileuniverse.com/?p=show&a=cat&id=54)
- Warcraft 2 soundtrack (some are on YouTube, don't remember where I got my redone version)
- Rome: Total War soundtrack
- Frank Klepacki (Red Alert, Universe at War etc. //www.frankklepacki.com)
My other passion is metal music and there's so many good bands and songs around that providing exhaustive list would take too much space here.
If you want to get some of these, you know what is the easiest way.
My favorite music comes mostly from the Commodore 64. Reason? well with "limited" hardware they was able to produce incredible music with feel unlike todays boring music with a stupid loop and some drums (read: hip hop/rap or loop music as I like to call it).
Computer music (Commodore 64 (SID)):
- Thomas Mogensen (Drax)
- Thomas E. Petersen (Laxity)
- Jens Christian Huus (JHC)
- Martin Galway (Last Ninja 2)
- Rob Hubbard
- Kjell Nordbø (dead by suicide - RIP - the great music lives on)
... And of course countless others... (the list would be to long to fit on any hard-drive available :P )
Amiga music:
- C42 Demo tune
- 3D Demo II
- Another Love
- Metro
- Camomile
- Cover Up
- Defined As Mess
- Distant Call
- Blowaway
- Gospel Karaoke
- Laid and flushed
- Lights
- Magic Nights
- Mamajungle (part 1 and 2)
- Spacejunkie
And tons of others....
PC music (from demos, games etc...)
- 3DMark 2003 ending... A piece of ART! I can listen to this song agan and agan for hours!
- The previous
- The previous previous
- The previous previous previous... etc ;)
"Normal music":
- The Crystal Method - Vegas album !!!!!!!!!!!!
- Propellerheads - Decksandrumsandrockandroll
- Mint Royale - Blue song
- Mint Royale - Diagonal Girl
- Mint Royale - Kung pow theme
- Fluke (Risotto best album)
- The Prodigy (Music for the jilted generation, Fat of the land)
- Mint Royale - Blue song
- Mint Royale - Diagonal Girl
- Mint Royale - Kung pow theme
- The Chemical Brothers (Setting sun - this song KICKS ASS!!!)
- Ugress (Norwegian multi-talented music :) )
- Gus Gus - David (Luke Charble Remix)
- Fatboy Slim -
- Paul Hardcastle - Nineteen (!)
- NewOrder - Confusion
- Snack - Overdoze
- Splitloop - Here on business
- JunkieXL - Description
- Øystein Sunde (Norwegian artist - fun texts and great on guitar)
- Monty Python (great texts)
- Ralph Myerz
- Røyksopp
- Yello
- Adam Freeland - Burn the clock (kicks ass!)
- Tito & Tarantulla - After dark and Angry Cockroaches best songs ;)
- The Blasters - Dark night
- Fingertwister
- General midi - some of their tunes
- Herb Alpert (Classics like spanish fly, tijuanna taxi, a taste of honey, black forrest etc....)
- Prokofiev - Rome & Julie suite no.2 (amazing piece)
... And last but not least
- JayDee - PLASTIC DREAMS!!!! (YUMMY!)
...Hmmm damn what a long list... I better stop :) (but I could go on for about 2-3 hours ;) )
How could i forgot about steelchambers 2 (http://modarchive.org/data/downloads.php?moduleid=85199#steel_chambers_2.mod) by Olof Gustafsson?! This is the best .MOD ever!!!
Well, I had to listen to the best .mod ever! Very impressive. I'm sometimes amazed at what people can manage with four channels and low samplerates and bitrates.
Thanks for the link, Jojo.
i'm glad you enjoyed it :)
btw, you should really disable resampling for this module, it sounds so much better (and more original) without it.