Lhasa Mencur - Consensual Hallucination

Short but very good EP in the vein of the Neotokyo OST, with a little more dubstep and a little less DnB. Lhasa Mencur on bandcamp

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I mostly listen to music when I'm working on something else, like mapping, GIMPing, etc., so it's mostly more ambient/atmospheric music.


At The End Of The Day - Amon Tobin


Building Steam With A Grain Of Salt - DJ Shadow
DJ Shadow has a lot of interesting music, most (all?) of it relying heavily on samples. This song stood out overall, although Organ Donor and Stem are also solid.

Colder - Bitcrush
Above average ambient-type stuff for a while, and then Bitcrush tries to become Ben Frost and does a decent job of it.

Dayvan Cowboy - Boards of Canada
The first half of the video does a much better job of reflecting the feel of the song than I ever could. The first half of the video consists of Joseph Kittinger's jump, and the song just gets...warm after that. In a good way.

Everything is Alright - Four Tet
Sounds like something you'd play over a montage about graphic artists.

Let the Light In - Lens
Has a cool atmospheric sound.

Parks on Fire - Trifonic
Interesting song with a neat video. Has more variety than most of the ambient stuff I hear.

Tepid Coat - Damiak
This song kind of reminds me of Explosions in the Sky. Damiak was also part of the n5md label, Bitcrush is responsible for the guitar in this song. The linked page has a minute or so of the 7-minute song, I couldn't find anything longer anywhere else.

The Launching of Big Face - Plaid & Bob Jaroc
+1000000 points for the song name, but the song itself sounds like...curiosity? Can songs do that? I'm blanking on any other applicable term. This is one of my favorite non-NT songs.

Wurlitzer - The Lushlife Project
Similar to Let The Light In, not quite as atmospheric.




This soundtrack is from a Half-Life 2 mod called Neotokyo. The mod is heavily influenced by Ghost in the Shell, so it's no surprise that these songs sound like cyberpunk future. This OST is incredible, had Ed Harrison done it for an actual game and not a mod he probably would have won a couple of awards.
Departure - Ed Harrison
Neotokyo OST Disc 1 - Ed Harrison
Neotokyo OST Disc 2 - Ed Harrison




Oh, and there's this song:
Standpipe Valve - Zircon
It does not fit with any of the songs above. Not ambient, not atmospheric. More ike aural cotton candy.