Music and No Man's Sky. Let's compile a list of bands, songs, and genres that inspire you to explore the universe of No Man's Sky!
Of course, 65daysofstatic are the official soundtrack artists of NMS and their work is amazing, but we all enjoy different styles of music. I am sure most of us have daydreamed on the drive home from work, listening to our favorite space/exploration inspired music while pining over NMS. Let's share that experience!
I will start with some of my favorite songs, bands, and albums that inspire exploration and discovery
| Band________ | Album | Song*_______ | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starset | Transmissions | N/A | If Breaking Benjamin in a science fiction setting with old space recordings, heavy themes, and emotional verses and choruses gets you going, then this band is for you. They really know how to convey emotion in their songs and I highly recommend My Demons, It Has Begun, and Let it Die as a launching point to get into their music. You can feel a very heavy inspiration from 2001: A Space Odyssey in their long periods of silence and ambiance and other popular science fiction works in their lyrics and emotion. All-in-all a fantastic band that I enjoy daydreaming about space to. |
| Helen Jane Long | Identity | Talk of an End | Helen Jane Long is a fantastic composer and has several amazing songs. But there is something about "Talk of An End" that just really makes me want to slowly walk around a quiet, desolate planet and soak in all the vast emptiness there is to see. The entire album Identity is wonderful and is her most recent work. I highly recommend her older album Embers if melancholy piano music is your preference. Whatever you do, don't imaging the funeral of a loved one while listening to "Talk of An End". I'm a 30 year old man about just about started crying on the drive home as a result of doing this. |
| The Devil Wears Prada | Space EP | N/A | Explosive. Wildly insane music with explosive lyrics, vocals, drums, guitar, everything. Space battles and mass destruction are just about all I can think of when I listen to them. If this is up your alley, their album With Roots Above and Branches Below is epic. |
| Epic North | Arcadia Redux | N/A | I feel like if you are into SciFi and have not listened to Epic North, you are missing out on a great experience. It's very high impact music that could only be categorized as "Epic". Intense orchestra, beautiful choral sounds, very explosive and emotional music. I would say the songs "Ironcloud" and "Freefall" are a good basis for what you can expect from Epic North's other works. |
| Feint & Boyinaband | Monstercat 007 - Solace | Time Bomb (feat. Veela) | I just plain like this song, not much to say about it. It's got a SciFi premise and is a good stepping stone into this style of music. For more like it, search around YouTube for "Monstercat". |
| Ludovico Einaudi | Una Mattina | Nuvole bianche | I love it when I get a chance to share Ludovico Einaudi with other people. It is a guarantee that someone will get hooked on the genre and "Nuvole bianche" is pretty much the pinnacle of what solo acoustic piano is all about. Desolation and loneliness are captured perfectly in this song but there is a hint of hope and a little "I will keep going and find my way out of this." I could imagine this playing as I found my way off of a hostile planet only to wind up drifting through an endless void with only enough fuel for a coin-toss of a jump to the next, unknown star system. |
| Tristam | Monstercat 007 - Solace | I Remember | Definitely a chill SciFi-esque song that I just enjoy kicking back and listening to. Nothing too special, but a great song to add to your exploration soundtrack. |
| Paradise | Together | Together (Loskop Remix) (feat. Grace) | Space-y and SciFi-y |
| Ivan Torent | "One of Us" (feat. Julie Elven) | "One of Us" (feat. Julie Elven) | Because Space, really. |
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I'm sure I could come up with more, I have tons of them but I am tired of typing. Lets see what you guys have to share!
Posted Apr 21, 2016, 1:50 PM UTC
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Tychos album "Dive" - any of those songs would do.
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