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Music for Gaming (Passive listening)
🕑 Added 2025-05-12 15:19:46 +0000 UTCHey all! I'm currently working on an outline for an upcoming episode where I make some recommendations for music to listen to while playing table top games, music for passive listening, and then also contrasting that with an artist I'm currently obsessed with, Miles Davis, specifically the electric period of the 1970s, and how that is active listening music.
Anyhow, I've put together a bunch of links for music recommendations, and I wanted to provide them to you all here in one place in case you wanted to check them out.
Sound tools made for TT gaming – my least favorite. Lacks a personal, artistic vision – utilitarian
https://www.youtube.com/@TableToneApp
Next up, perhaps the most cliché and generic answer of all, but dammit if his music isn’t perfect, and that’s the music composed by Jeremy Soule for the Elder Scrolls games, especially Oblivion and Skyrim.
I use this Youtube channel
https://www.youtube.com/@Everness1
Dungeon Synth
my curated playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKewgRd8Eir8uKXq73-iLzFy4E3YlEmwM
The Dungeon Synth Archives
https://www.youtube.com/@TheDungeonSynthArchives
For SF / Cyberpunk / Science - Fantasy / Dying World
Vaporwave / Mall Soft
History - 2010 - Eccojams
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfXOem1EERg
History - 2011 - Floral Shoppe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCq0P509UL4
Windows96
https://windows96.bandcamp.com/album/enchanted-instrumentals-and-whispers
Fascination with Japanese aesthetics
Use of kanji and katakana in titles and names
https://hiraeth-records.bandcamp.com/album/building-a-better-world
Loft Tapes
https://lofttapes.bandcamp.com/album/david
VHS Logos - one of my favorites
https://vhslogos.bandcamp.com/album/mantra
My curated Playlist
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKewgRd8Eir-DcwmW0eNODqEZzDu_b81z&si=vLNOqPebzmdKi9k2
What about horror? Well, it doesn’t get any better than The Caretaker.
https://thecaretaker.bandcamp.com/album/everywhere-an-empty-bliss
Other random recommendations
Takashi Kokubo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oi6qRw4Ry_8&list=PLKewgRd8Eir8afr5PkQHeVyyEowWYIjty&index=4
Motohiko Hamase
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWDGK6PIgqw&list=PLKewgRd8Eir8afr5PkQHeVyyEowWYIjty&index=8
In The Woods – youtube channel
https://www.youtube.com/@InTheWoods
Raflum – Melodies of Forest and Sping
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqFpbo_K2Eg&list=PLKewgRd8Eir8afr5PkQHeVyyEowWYIjty&index=2
Should Be Asleep – youtube channel
https://www.youtube.com/@should_be_asleep
Stephen Hill’s Hearts of Space
https://youtu.be/OoHY8hxEM3A?si=MNk3SqsRL3BLsKw9
https://www.hos.com/about/hearts-of-space-history
Meditation Bells
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3j9vJ3cY7vc
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Green
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-k9Xu5O7AY
Sounds of Dawn – Youtube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/@soundsofthedawn
Comments
Mr Quimper
For those into Dungeon Synth. Should. check out Josua Karlson https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVEaueQIVTR0wgS9KNh5Sbw He recently made the official 'soundtrack' to Vermis.
Mr Quimper
One of the best labels I've found for 'Dark Ambient' artists. That I've followed for several years now is Cryo Chamber https://cryochamber.bandcamp.com/
