Good Music to KSP Too?

[Vanamonde]

There was an existing thread on this subject in the off-topic lounge, and so, merged. Carry on.

[Random Tank]

Actually, the best song is:

[pxi]

Coil's 'Musick To Play In The Dark' albums are pretty good:

And this, to me is the Kerbal mindset in a nutshell:

From north and south

We come from east and west

Breathing as one

Living in fame

Or dying in flame

We laugh

Our mission is blessed

[OtherDalfite]

http://brotherandroid.com/album/space-hymns-2013-space-theodicy-edition

I ordered the disk and it is well worth it. Great quality.

[Rjhere]

Id suggest my kind of music, but then I remembered nobody likes that kind of music anymore...

[AlexinTokyo]

What music do you like to listen to when you go to space?

Do you stick with the in-game tracks (which are great) or do you play something else instead?

I recently put the Battlestar Galactica soundtrack on while playing KSP, and it was awesome

[Pecan]

Radio 4Xtra. KSP and a good laugh go well together. (Classic radio comedy mainly - The Goons, Round The Horn, ITMA, etc.)

[Kerbonautical]

It's surprising just how many different styles of music can fit in when travelling in space. Anything acoustic like Erik Mongrain's Equilibrium all the way up to ambient electronic stuff can work out. Some types of Jazz even seem to fit. I even find that something like Tunedef's Justice which is relatively high energy modern electronic song can work with a chopped video of KSP actions like docking, ascent etc. It's really quite amazing that all these various styles of music can fit in when used right with space considering Hollywood still doesn't seem to have figured out why electronic music and pre-1900's settings don't mesh.

[Cmdr. Arn1e]

My 'Ambient Elctronic stuff' at the moment consists of things like Fearsome Engine, but I've found Gorillaz and Muse to be very good too

EDIT: Oh, and many of the Indie Game soundtracks I've picked up are pretty good for it too; Nervous Testpilot (Frozen Synapse Soundtrack) seems to fit in well (haha!) Jeffball (Astroman Soundtrack), Chipzel (Phonetic Symphony) - 8-bit spacegame music FTW!, Solar Fields (Capsized Soundtrack), Ensnare (Impeccable + Nitro), Disasterpiece (Deorbit) - more 8-bit goodness, and lots of others besides!

Wouldn't recommend the Amnesia OST soundtrack for those who suffer from things described in this thread: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/51670-Am-I-the-only-one-who-s-creeped-out-by-the-Mun

Edited April 12, 2014 by Cmdr. Arn1e
Had more to say...

[vinsent10]

''The entertainer'' because it really isn't often my stuff gets to space

[toric5]

i listen to the portal soundtrack.

[NecroBones]

Some of the soundtracks from Earth & Beyond, and EVE Online work great.

Also like the Babylon 5 soundtrack (and other albums from Christopher Franke, such as his London Concert).

Just now discovering how well the wide range of ambient electronic stuff works. There's a great sampling on Youtube from "Spacemind", such as:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_csZvamJvg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGICDz4qbd4

[Othuyeg]

This is what I play on my background. Fits space exploration just amazingly well. Also keeps my stream viewers happy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UT4i5B4ZOsE

[EndOfTheEarth]

I have a few pieces from Geodesium. They're the music group that's responsible for something like 80% of all real-life planetarium music, so it's usually very fitting.

Some samples:

http://www.lochnessproductions.com/geo/grs/grs_player.html

[TerLoki]

Oh man, I listen to a variety of stuff, but it mostly depends on what I'm doing. During reentry or aerobraking, particularly with an untested design, I find

from the Mass Effect 2 soundtrack is often quite fitting. Chris Hadfield's rendition of Space Oddity is nice for time warp, docking, and other space station operations. For launches I use

by Muse most, thanks to

video, but for tests and crazier designs I tend to go with

or

, because... Reasons.

Unless I want something specific though, I usually just have

list on shuffle.

[JenBurdoo]

The filk music album To Touch The Stars:

http://www.prometheus-music.com/thestars.html

Especially Hope Eyrie and Fire in the Sky. I have a mind to make a Hope Eyrie music video using KSP.

[Sidoz11]

Hans Zimmer - Inception and the When We Left Earth soundtrack, they're both good, other than that I put my phone onto shuffle and listen to a random mash-up

[vger]

Jerry Goldsmith.

Alien, Explorers, and a whole slew of Star Trek films.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaT-JX5r8i8

John Williams's score for Space Camp is nice too.

If you want something a bit more creepy and ambient, John Serrie has a lot of good music for that. He sometimes uses actual space noise for samples too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZab4eoaaGo

Edited April 12, 2014 by vger

[maccollo]

When launching things I prefer orchestrated music of the bombastic kind. That stuff gives me some incredible dopamine kicks.

http://youtu.be/gZRQmcQK6Lk

[NecroBones]

Oh man, I listen to a variety of stuff, but it mostly depends on what I'm doing. During reentry or aerobraking, particularly with an untested design, I find

from the Mass Effect 2 soundtrack is often quite fitting.

I really love all of the Mass Effect series music, but I can't listen to it without turning all fanboy-ish and getting all emotional.

[Kerbonautical]

Oh and also, if I'm launching unfathomable behemoths then Ride of the Valkyries may occasionally find it's way into a playlist

[MKI]

Peter Schilling - Major Tom

I think of KSP when ever i hear it now lol

[J.Random]

I play KSP with this music in the background.

[Liowen]

I so want to put this in for one of my launches sometime soon, too bad I didn't record the one I had a few nights ago it would have fit. The thing just did not want to go into space...

Normally I just put pandora on when I am messing around and put it on Classic Rock mixed with 90's grunge.

[Vanamonde]

Merged into the existing music-while-playing thread.