What Music Do You Listen to When Creating Worlds

[LD]

Random Musing,

1. Do you listen to music when creating worlds, to encourage your creativity?

2. If so, what music? Youtube links encouraged.

Reasoning.
Might be interesting to see the types of music that lead to the creation of certain settings... somewhat interested in what Polycarp! and Steerpike listen to when creating their complicated worlds. I think Vreeg listens to goth music, he can correct me if I am wrong...what do you listen to?

[Hibou]

http://somafm.com/missioncontrol/

[LD]

These aren't necessarily the songs that inspire a setting, but these are the songs that help me be creative:

[ic]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AMiiwc6bBA
Riot Maker - TechN9ne
(...listened to a lot when writing Lini for the Mass Effect Game. Not that it has anything to do with her in any way.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fmGMeIU2O0
Big Black Spider - Techno
(General inspiration)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ymkav8ONak
Walking Away - She Wants Revenge
(Steampunk/Cyberpunk inspiration)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ic6NFgwgTsw
Sister Self Doubt- Get Shakes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6YYgJspIVQ
New Wave- Mark and Alex
(More cyberpunk/steampunk!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Du_ouycoP1k
World Destruction - Time Zone (feat Afrikka Bamabasta)
(more political)
(not the version I have but youtube seems to have about every version except the one I do hmm..)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPQWYrq6LSs
Beauty Beats by Beats Antique

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWIUcoVH3e4
Falling by White Pony

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPH1OoTobtk
Airship Pirate by Abney Park
My second most played song with over 100 plays
[/ic]

*edit: removed Gaga's Telephone. The youtube version chops the song up too much.

[LD]

OmegaLimit- yes, but which of those channels? And or more specifically, which songs?

It's my fault for stating "music" instead of "songs" in the first post.

[Nomadic]

Some awesome stuff posted in here. I don't listen to music while writing though as it distracts me and I am unable to get anything written. This is generally true of me regarding anything. When I'm listening to music I'm not doing anything else. If I am doing anything else the house is completely silent :)

[LordVreeg]

Loving Light Dragon's responses

[Steerpike]

I don't usually listen to music when writing creatively, but sometimes I listen to Daft Punk and Massive Attack when writing essays for school - I tend to power through huge blocks of text rapidly for some reason while listening to those.

[Hibou]

The first page of the link is mainly what I listen to. I listen to Mission Control all the time. If it's not that, it's something like Vangelis, The Dark Knight Soundtrack, Stalker Call of Pripyat Soundtrack, Halo 3 Soundtrack, Deus Ex soundtrack, Phillip Glass, Zander Zon, and other various music lacking a lot of vocals. Mission Control is the big one, however.

[Magnus Pym]

My Playlists

This is 3 of my playlists, they're all awesome and alot of instrumental too, no voice ruining the imagination.

I strongly suggest the Ambience / Lounge playlist.

Kuba, Trentemoller, Royskopp, Cell, Jens Buchert, Daft Punk, Thievery Corporation, tracks from the Cafe Del Mar... they all juice up creativity trust me.

[LordVreeg]

Much of the History and sory lines of Celtricia is actually based on music and lyrics.  So I contunually add onto that storyline, playing this game.

//TheWhiteCity
I can't find a link, but the SOng is 'White City " by Thomas Dolby.

The First apostate to be booted out of the white city also had his roots in some music...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHOn093r-Ak&feature=view_all&list=PLBC72FDBA2C6C23C2&index=11
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNIQrIXlrNw&feature=view_all&list=PLBC72FDBA2C6C23C2&index=3

Much of the Age of Heroes was and is tied to the long discography of Gary Numan and a few others.  ALmost the whole Bard vs arbor, as the agents of their repsective Planars, is fed by this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ci7lssNMRI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxvEaMXYfqk&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOwwW9SOoOw&feature=related

the Vicorian renaissance and the romance of the intertwined families are also mainly a lyric-driven history.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJEe9yIs2ZE&playnext=1&list=PLCE166EF279A5671D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mrnn_Vi1lug&feature=related


And much of the current Igbarian plotline is also so driven....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyMGAwcnxa0&feature=related

this is a good start.

[Steerpike]

As my players know, I do use a fair bit of music while running games, usually taken from video games.  My go-to tracks are often taken from Planescape: Torment, Dead Space I & II, and Amnesia: The Dark Descent.

Anyone have suggestions for other good ambient/background music that would fit the Cadaverous Earth?  A lot of RPG music is too medieval/"high fantasy epic" to really fit the kind of grotesque grandeur and dark fantastic feel I want to evoke.

[SA]

Here's some music I have used when GMing Steerpike's CE:

Ghosts, by Trent Reznor.
The more sedate works of Lustmord.

And when GMing LC's Jade Stage, pretty much anything by Debussy.

As for what I currently use during setting creation:

Rasputinas; Debussy; Erik Satie; Yoko Kanno; Nujabes; official soundtracks of the games FFX, Shadow of the Colossus, Ico and Braid, and of the film There Will be Blood.

However, it changes from project to project.

[Steerpike]

AWESOME!  Thanks for the tracks!

EDIT: How was I not familiar with Lustmord before, he's freaking perfect for CE!!! Will definitely use.

[SA]

He's best in moderation. I've found my players become increasingly anxious, the longer Lustmord is on.

Oh yeah, and I forgot the Silent Hill soundtracks! Lots of creepy times there.

[Kindling]

Lustmord is great. I might also suggest this for CE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH-0jGsl0vk
For some reason it just fits in my mind...
Also anything by Karl Sander, such as this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBXxHkceI98

As to what I would listen to when writing for my own settings... it really depends. A lot of the time, like those above, I tend to be more focussed on just writing. When I ran Demon-Haunted (which I still need to revamp and definitely rename) I played a lot of Karl Sanders during play, and seeing as the world was created for/during play I guess that counts...