How do you imagine cyberpunk themed music will sound like?

Ak!mbo

Well, I guess it could be argued that some Dub Reggae is kind of cyberpunk..
Remixing old tracks using echo machines and relatively new technology to recreate the songs and add a lot of weird but ayrie effects..
Also, New Zion!
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Vírus de Sírius

I would say "fucking industrial" But it allways depends on what atmosphere you are bringin. For a more agressive street-like, Industrial (as KMFDM). or Digital Hardcore (as Atari Teenage Riot) or even a club like Rob Zombie such as in Matrix. For the network, I would sugest hard techno like prodigy =)

Cadet SF

Haha and don't forget MDFMK
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VitaminTech · Guest

Wow... This is beatiful. =D

A number of genres of electronic music come to mind when I think of the sound of cyberpunk..

One of them is some 80's synth punk, because I seriously just think of Bladerunner and the 1980's as a wave of birthing cyberpunk material.. I also think of industrial techno, like Pierrepoint's song "Hard n' Fast."

But more than any other sub-genre of techno/EDM, I think of Drum and Bass.

This is a song by Dieselboy and Tech Itch, Dieselboy being the best known DnB artists in America, and Tech Itch a really dark DnB-style out of the UK.

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

That screams industrial, destructive, cybernetic and rebellious at the same time. I did art work while listening to it to give inspiration, and this was two of the results.. I'm not a good artist, and it was done with just charcoal to give it a gritty effect, so go easy on me. :/

Vírus de Sírius

VitaminTech:

Loved the second pic. Don´t know if was the intention, but looks like a kind of "industrial stain test" like the ones you look to a white card with a stain and has to tell what you are seeint on it.

At first glance I could swer it was that giang four-legged robots from star wars (the ones Luke destroys with a gripping cable on his ship) and then I noticed acrualy, the buldings ruining.

Cadet SF

I guess I'd add some classic 80's Depeche Mode such as Black Celebration (album and song).
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Meteor · Meat Joined: 23 Apr 2007 Posts: 5

I think it would definatly sound like very techno-industrial, and maybe like this

http://www.spacetribe.com/shop/product_info.php?products_id=1172
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Jade

Do you think that classical music can be CP? What kinds of elements would it need?

(I'd like to compose something very CP)

VitaminTech · Guest

Cadet SF

Classical music can defintiely be cyberpunk, especially when contrasted against the techno, industrial feel (or sound). In essence the electronica or techno artist (many more subgenres, I know) does the same thing as a classical composer, he composes a song by selecting the proper instruments and laying out themes within the music. I mean look at how Blade Runner had all that old time Jazz in it and Equilibrium had Beethoven.
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Jade

Good Point, VitaminTech. Smile

Matrix-soundtracks are partly very classical. (For example the ending titles or Revolutions)

I think that it should be easy to compose techno-like acoustic music for percussions. I just found a perfect metal sound from a wooden marimba! Amazing, huh?

As soon as I get my copyrights done, I'll post the work here.

MAdMaN

Bands I consider at least musically cyberpunk (some also lyrically):

Pitchshifter
Fear Factory
Drawbacks
Celldweller
Pendulum

Jade

Hey have you heard about Venetian Snares? Awesome electronic music!

kefka321

Due to so many dystopian backgrounds/settings in CP, most any kind of Industrial, or hard electronic, would suit just fine.
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Navigator · Enigma's Little Pet Joined: 01 May 2007 Posts: 32

Hah, glad to see all the mentions of industrial, EBM, synthpop/futurepop, IDM, techno, trance, metal, and so on. I'm familiar with and I listen to most of the artists listed here, which is very cool.

As for the most cyberpunk-sounding stuff? Quite honestly, I think I'm going to have to go with a very little-known Australian producer that goes under the name of Shinjuku Filth. I've got his album Raised by Wolves and it's really quite the listening experience. It's extremely well-produced and consists of a lot of atmosphere, noise, and samples (ranging from car sounds to voices to dogs barking, which give it all a concept album feel, because there's clearly some type of story progressing throughout it) all with a futuresque theme to it. While there are no lyrics or vocals, and hardly even melody in most tracks, I think it depicts a dystopian setting extraordinarily well. I'd really like to see him do some film soundtracking.

So for your listening pleasure, I've uploaded three tracks. They're just a small sample of the versatility on this album.

Shinjuku Filth - the Art
Shinjuku Filth - the Credit Sequence
Shinjuku Filth - the Revision