Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Magic and Music: Simic (Green-Blue)

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This is one of my top 5 compilations flavor-wise, and it's one of the most important to me, as it's my belief that blue and green are the two most ignored colors for gamers' playlists since they're the two least inclined to power, rawkin', and all those things that many gamers like about gaming.

The Simic were about improving on nature with technology; this calls for a rather specific group of songs. A lot of the environmentally-oriented techno works here (esp. if it's got an aquatic motif, given that we're discussing Islands). Warp's seminal Artificial Intelligence compilation set off a wave of excellent music, a good chunk of which was green. Global Communication's 76:14 album is quintessentially green-blue; one of its flagship songs is on here. It's a narrow mood (it can be tricky to find songs that are neither light nor dark in mood), but if you can put all the songs together, it makes for a powerful compilation.

Mystical Sun - Blue Magnetic Ocean
(Donkey Kong Country) - Blue Vision
Plaid - Gel Lab
Susumu Yokota - The Loneliness of Anarchic Beauty Achieved by My Ego
Global Communication - 9:25
B12 - Interim
BT - Embracing the Future --> Poseidon
B12 - Telefone 529
Bassic - E-World
Xerxes - Cell Progression

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