Heya there 
Following up on BirdWisdom's thread, I thought I'd put together yet another collection thread, this time for space exploration music \o/
First and foremost, when I say 'exploration music', I take into account music that provide a sense of galactic or general space, that explicitly refer to space and/or adventure/exploration, music that is contemplative, atmospheric verging on ambient, or music that develops a sense of wonder, discovery, epicness or introspection. These are quite vague boundaries I admit; in other words, I leave out pure new age stuff, warrior epic, full-blown techno or avantgarde experiments, as well as satured guitars shoegaze, etc. I also leave out the countless random multi-hour mixes that YouTube can provide very well. As per the theme, the list is mostly oriented towards electronic music, but that's by no means a restriction (see Godspeed You! Black Emperor, etc.). As for soundtracks, well most of them will be from movies set in or around space, but again, that's not a requirement; and yes, Jurassic Park's soundtrack always works <3
I grabbed part of the suggestions on BirdWisdom's thread, and added several albums from my own collection that I thought would work well. Classical music still to come.
Priority is given to full albums. I'll probably create a YT playlist to put all the extra individual tracks in it at some point (though if someone else wants to take care of it, I'd be super happy). No album doesn't make the list if there isn't a decent audio quality version around. All links are YouTube, unless unavailable (then, Bandcamp).
SUBMITTING
This list is absolutely destined to be a community music bank; but 'exploration music', sort-of-defined above ^, doesn't necessarily equal 'the music you listen to'. Submission that are too far apart from the theme won't be added. Please post full albums as much as possible, with clean YT links to good audio quality vids. No Spotify or anything that requires a login.
CATEGORIES
ELECTRONIC : sounds particularly electronic (synths, bass...) and is not ambient
AMBIENT : long works, focused on slow paced atmospheres and textures
ATMOSPHERIC: instrumentally more open than electronic, less rigid about slow pace than ambient
SOUNDTRACKS: self explanatory (films, games...)
WORLD/EPIC: mostly crossover works that blend different styles with an emphasis on the element of wonder
!!!! I didn't keep the Hawkwind track on the other thread but I'd like to have a good, spacey album of theirs. Also, I couldn't find full version of Jeff Mills' Jungle Planet and Where The Light Ends, they would have been great here.
Electronic
Ambient
Atmospheric
Soundtracks
World/Epic
Classical (coming soon!)
Following up on BirdWisdom's thread, I thought I'd put together yet another collection thread, this time for space exploration music \o/
First and foremost, when I say 'exploration music', I take into account music that provide a sense of galactic or general space, that explicitly refer to space and/or adventure/exploration, music that is contemplative, atmospheric verging on ambient, or music that develops a sense of wonder, discovery, epicness or introspection. These are quite vague boundaries I admit; in other words, I leave out pure new age stuff, warrior epic, full-blown techno or avantgarde experiments, as well as satured guitars shoegaze, etc. I also leave out the countless random multi-hour mixes that YouTube can provide very well. As per the theme, the list is mostly oriented towards electronic music, but that's by no means a restriction (see Godspeed You! Black Emperor, etc.). As for soundtracks, well most of them will be from movies set in or around space, but again, that's not a requirement; and yes, Jurassic Park's soundtrack always works <3
I grabbed part of the suggestions on BirdWisdom's thread, and added several albums from my own collection that I thought would work well. Classical music still to come.
Priority is given to full albums. I'll probably create a YT playlist to put all the extra individual tracks in it at some point (though if someone else wants to take care of it, I'd be super happy). No album doesn't make the list if there isn't a decent audio quality version around. All links are YouTube, unless unavailable (then, Bandcamp).
SUBMITTING
This list is absolutely destined to be a community music bank; but 'exploration music', sort-of-defined above ^, doesn't necessarily equal 'the music you listen to'. Submission that are too far apart from the theme won't be added. Please post full albums as much as possible, with clean YT links to good audio quality vids. No Spotify or anything that requires a login.
CATEGORIES
ELECTRONIC : sounds particularly electronic (synths, bass...) and is not ambient
AMBIENT : long works, focused on slow paced atmospheres and textures
ATMOSPHERIC: instrumentally more open than electronic, less rigid about slow pace than ambient
SOUNDTRACKS: self explanatory (films, games...)
WORLD/EPIC: mostly crossover works that blend different styles with an emphasis on the element of wonder
!!!! I didn't keep the Hawkwind track on the other thread but I'd like to have a good, spacey album of theirs. Also, I couldn't find full version of Jeff Mills' Jungle Planet and Where The Light Ends, they would have been great here.
Electronic
![]() Vangelis - Voices | ![]() Vangelis - Cosmos | ![]() Sasha & Digweed - Northern Exposure (CD2) | ![]() Cybotron - Colossus | ![]() Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygène |
![]() Vangelis - Direct | ![]() Carl Craig - Landcruising | ![]() Plastikman - EX | ![]() Photek - Solaris | ![]() Jean Michel Jarre - Chronologie |
![]() Paul Oakenfold - Essential Mix @Space, 1999 | ![]() Future Sound Of London - Earthbeat Session | ![]() Lazerhawk - Visitors | ![]() Aphex Twin - "Melodies From Mars" | ![]() Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92 |
![]() Echo Delta - Blue Eon | ![]() Android Automatic - When Summer Ends | ![]() Various - Magnatron | ![]() Klaus Schulze - Signs Of Dawn | ![]() Dynatron - Throttle Up EP |
![]() Dynatron - Escape Velocity | ![]() The Orb - The Orb's Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld | ![]() Volkor X - This Means War | ![]() Asura - 360 | ![]() Yagya - Will I Dream During The Process? |
![]() Vril - Torus |
Ambient
Atmospheric
Soundtracks
World/Epic
Classical (coming soon!)
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