Music for a low culture, high tech setting

I'm searching for music for a rpg campaign on a GeniusLoci planet with a LowCultureHighTech setting with LoadsAndLoadsOfRaces all of them weid (oddworld type weird). All in a SlidingScaleOfLibertarianismAndAuthoritarianism framework. What would fit this?

edited 16th May '12 1:18:14 PM by PacalII

I would suggest some weird genre fusion stuff. My first thoughts:

• Woven Hand
• A Hawk and a Hacksaw
• Afro Celt Sound System
• Xera

How about a little ominous tribal experimental weirdness?

• HEALTH
• Muslimgauze
• Test Dept.
• Einstürzende Neubauten
• Amon Düül

Thanks! I liked most of it, but I think Woven hand, Xera, Muzlimgauze fit the most. You've got more stuff like that?

Hope I'm not flirting with Flame Bait, but doesn't the discussion title pretty much describe most kinds of electronic music? I'd think you could pick from a pretty wide range of genres.

For Woven Hand, that particular song comes from the album Mosaic; I'd also recommend the album The Threshingfloor for a similar vibe. Xera released both their albums for free; our article about them has links to where you can download them.

Unfortunately, they're both darn near one-of-a-kind. If anyone else is making stuff that's more than superficially similar, I'm not aware of them.

Some of Entertainment For The Braindead's stuff might fit the bill, particularly the Roadkill album.

Muslimgauze's discography is... errm, huge. Look and eventually you'll find something suitable. (Be warned, though: Bryn Jones was a bit of a polarising fellow. Tread carefully.)

As for more things in that kind of weird, cinematic vein, there is always Michael Gira's "music for an imaginary film" project The Body Lovers. Very primal, very understated, very creepy.

edited 17th May '12 7:49:13 PM by JHM

A lot of more aggressive and occasionally extreme metal, especially something like Voivod that has that a very gritty aesthetic but a distinctly weird sci-fi feel to it.

For something like races, some speed/thrash metal a la Razor, Exciter, D.R.I., and so on.

edited 19th May '12 12:39:21 PM by StillbirthMachine

Right, I know nothing about genres, so bear with me here. I sort of imagine a blend of traditional instruments and those you'd find in more modern music.

Generic 8-bit/Kraftwerk style music might work

On the "tribal experimental weirdness" front the first thing I could think of was PIL's Flowers Of Romance album:

I adore that album, but it keeps slipping my mind. Such is life, I guess.

But yes, in terms of "modern primitivism," Flowers Of Romance is hard to beat.

Also, Savage Republic, who I forgot to mention the first time around.

What about the Battlestar Galactica soundtrack? That has a bit of a, if not primitive, at least rather primal sound to it at times.