Hey, music peeps. I like Perturbator a lot. But lots of other retro-synth stuff is slow, boring, droning, Vangelis wanking. Is there other stuff that adds a bit of metal?
I need writing music for my upcoming cyberpunk campaign.
Originally shared by Jonathan Tweet Tonight, my "Lethal Damage" 13th Age campaign draws to a close. Meanwhile, the guys are work have talked me into running a couple D&D sessions for them. That was the day 13th Age was announced, and they're happy to play 13th Age instead. That will be my "Great Center" campaign, based in the imperial capital of Axis, the center of the world. It's my opportunity to explore the setting from yet another perspective.
Pre-gen from Frank Mentzer's module, The Needle , 1987. I knew this was insulting and gross when I was 14. At the time I didn't know who Frank was, since I only played AD&D. I found this module again when I was going through a box of old stuff and was surprised he wrote it, because I thought it was a pretty shitty adventure.
From Voyageurs National Park on FB: Called “Catamaran” by locals, Bert Upton is among the strangest of historical characters on area waters. He lived in a hut built over a dug-out at Squirrel Narrows. Found frozen to death in the 1930s by Kettle Falls pioneer Oliver Knox; Upton was perched lifeless in the snow just a half-mile from his home. Shunning civilization, Upton defined the word hermit. First spotted rowing his crude log raft on Namakan, no one knows how he got there. Upton’s accent implied an English heritage but any personal inquiries brought a stony silence. Some suspected him a man fleeing the law; others saw a bizarre outcast; everyone knew he was peculiar. Just five feet tall and wildly unkempt, Catamaran wore hacked-off pants and walked barefoot with a stick. Winter demanded shoes but no socks, a cast-off Mackinaw, and a trailing cap made from the leg of old underwear. He was oddly religious, and suspicious of being poisoned. Surviving on snared rabbits and fish, he ofte...
Carpenter Brut rules.
ReplyDeleteLazerhawk?
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpE4UFUN4PE This was basically my late-night driving jam for a long time.
ReplyDeleteI actually pretty much listen to this genre and post-rock exclusively at night on the road.
ReplyDeleteLazerhawk (and ActRazer, his side project) and Carpenter Brut fit the bill.
ReplyDeleteDance with the Dead?
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ReplyDeleteGood... Good...
ReplyDeletepaging The Real-ish Greg Gorgonmilk
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ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XisOVzJ32_g
ReplyDeleteThis song is one that gets me pumped but I haven't really checked out other songs by the artist.
I'll be checking all these links tonight.
ReplyDeleteThis is all good stuff. Picking up the Carpenter Brut Trilogy for sure.
ReplyDeleteI second Megadrive. No guitar but hard.
ReplyDeleteLet me recommend Dan Terminus as well.
ReplyDeleteSample: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vcgW0-tdWE
perturbator collaborates with dan terminus on the final track on this album:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjrKrvF7JDA
which is available pay what you want on bandcamp.
speaking of bandcamp, they have a "cyberpunk" tag that i find pretty useful
https://bandcamp.com/tag/cyberpunk
vhs glitch and mangadrive (not to be confused with megadrive) are both really good.
http://vhsglitch.bandcamp.com/
http://mangadrive.bandcamp.com/