Magic and Music: Dimir (Blue-Black)

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The largely underground Dimir barely revealed to the world of Ravnica that it even was a guild, preferring secrecy and stealth in all their actions. Watery Grave does a nice job of conveying this, although the uncommon land Duskmantle, House of Shadows gives the Dimir game away as well. The album, pretty obviously, is going to be a dark one, although unlike black-red it won't be fast, and unlike black-red it necessarily features electronica.

The easiest way of conveying an underground feel musically is to keep all the notes low - literally looking underground if you had sheet music. That may sound odd at first, but considering how high strings and vocalists give an ethereal feel to white, black sitting on the other side of blue can flip that around to get what it wants. There's a sense of subversion to blue-black, and this compilation is trying to get that across.

(Before posting, a note on vocals. The first song on here has, amazingly enough, appropriate lyrics for the guild, although I chose it for its music. You could make lyrically themed compilations for the guilds and shards; I just went with music ones. I also tried to stay away from vocal songs unless the mood so fit the guild that I had to include the song. It's amazing how easily one or two vocal tracks can derail the flow of several instrumentals, so where possible I've kept compilations instrumental.)

The Dimir love the following:

Hybrid - Choke
Sasha - Immortal
Autechre - Foil
Black Dog - 4.7.8.
Cardamar - Capacity (How Much Can You Take?)
Underworld - Winjer
Leftfield - Swords
Blu Mar Ten - Above Words
Hybrid - Gravastar --> Marrakech
Aphex Twin - Blue Calx
Black Dog - Skin Clock
Sasha - Boileroom