Elite / Frontier Elite: Best composers for best game of all time?

Steve O B Have

Steve O B Have
I've mentioned some of them before but here is a list of artists that I think could really do this game justice with their music.

Orbital - Halcyon On & On (The video on YT is cleverly put together with 2001 Space Odyssey)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXN9r6tPgHU

Future Sound of London - Papua New Guinea
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCoCTkC0oL0

Jam & Spoon - Stella
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZpkhpfecwg

Chicane - Offshore (Ambient Mix)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCEN4OCJ0DI

Moby - Porcelain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyCP05ABbJE

The Orb
Little Fluffy Clouds - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWMIXgCaJPQ
Blue Room - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIx2X8MSZF4

Leftfield
Song For Life - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCj6dq9w7mg (forgive the trashy video)

Robert Miles
Children - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCYST35gSvU

Deep Dish
Floating - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiQsCHD8Q08 (sublime)

Peter Lazonby
Sacred Cycles - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujeW3sD9D90

L.S.G.
Netherworld - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQcx1gWOhmM

Get someone like DJ Sasha on the job, he's the genius behind the Wipeout 3 soundtrack which I personally consider to be one of the best game soundtracks out there. Whilst that was quite a bangy soundtrack, Sasha has been long known for his deep trance sets and between him and John Digweed have produced some of the best mix CDs that I have ever heard. Sashas Involver and Invol2ver are just wonderful pieces of production work as are the team efforts of the Northern Exposure series

Getting a little old school like the Vangelis and Tangerine Dream references we can't forget some of the old masters like Jean Michel Jarre...

Oxygen Pt2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ek5u5jl7Ads
Equinox Pt4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pddS0wGjKH8

...and Jan Hammer
Crockett's Theme: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UmOY6ek_Y4

Harold Faltermeyer :)
Top Gun Theme... ok joking, but only a little...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCTJmXrgsFg

Robert Fripp
An Ending Ascent - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jrVnQAigX4

Ok I know no-one is likely to listen to any of these but I hope you do - they're tracks that have given me much joy over the years...
 

JohannStrauss

JohannStrauss
mbrookes said:
He did the soundtrack for Black Hawk Down (which was excellent) so he's a good choice.

Michael
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Dear Mister Developer,

As much as I am enthusiastic by the fact that FRONTIER is actually thinking about my German citizen Hans Zimmer that is living just 50 miles away from my home (when he is in Germany), I was ACTUALLY TALKING about those legendary OLD arcade composers, especially Ben Daglish just to write some small songs for the game.

Please, will you hear me?

beg you!
 

Michael Brookes

Game Director
JohannStrauss said:
Dear Mister Developer,

As much as I am enthusiastic by the fact that FRONTIER is actually thinking about my German citizen Hans Zimmer that is living just 50 miles away from my home (when he is in Germany), I was ACTUALLY TALKING about those legendary OLD arcade composers, especially Ben Daglish just to write some small songs for the game.

Please, will you hear me?

beg you!
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A slight misquote there :) I said he's a good choice for the new COD game, while I'm sure he'd do a fine job on Elite, we do have our own talented composers :)

Michael
 

Steve O B Have

Steve O B Have
mbrookes said:
A slight misquote there :) I said he's a good choice for the new COD game, while I'm sure he'd do a fine job on Elite, we do have our own talented composers :)

Michael
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Not taking anything away from your inhouse composers, it would be nice to see some recognised artists in a game like this, especially some of the extremely talented European electronica producers. It's done wonders for games like the Wipeout series, Gran Turismo and Grand theft Auto to name a few. If not then the possibility of a jukebox feature would be brilliant! I know the missus would thank you for it since I wouldn't have to have my music coming through the livingroom stereo whilst I played ;)

EDIT: actually something like a Spotify plugin would be brilliant so that we can share playlists legitimately - that would be brilliant... for me anyway - I'm not sure if anyone else here uses it...
 
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Geraldine

Geraldine
Steve O B Have said:
If not then the possibility of a jukebox feature would be brilliant! I know the missus would thank you for it since I wouldn't have to have my music coming through the livingroom stereo whilst I played ;)

EDIT: actually something like a Spotify plugin would be brilliant so that we can share playlists legitimately - that would be brilliant... for me anyway - I'm not sure if anyone else here uses it...
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Yes, great idea Steve!
As for standard in game music, Frontier Developments could do a lot worse than look to Jimmy Page and Mike Oldfield:rolleyes:
Mind you, Allister Brimble made some great tracks for many games too.
 
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