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I'm looking for songs. 'Bout 400 of them. ^_^ But it's more complicated than just any ol' song. ^_^ nono, I'm picky. Not only do they need to be GOOD songs, but they need to fit a paticular genre.

But I don't want to slap a genre label on them, cause based on some disgussions with some peoples, the genre gets hazy to some. So I'll just sort of explain. ^_^

I'm making an MP3 music cd. I want to cram as many mp3's on the one CD as I can, and I estimate that it's about 400. I think. I could be way off, which will make my search easier (if it's less per CD).

The sort of music I'm looking for is mood music. I want to say New Age for the genre, but some people have said the music I've chosen as inspiration for the making of this CD isn't New age (otori ^_^). But the sorta artist that have inspired this compelation of mp3's onto a single disk would be Delerium, Enya, Enigma, to name a few. ^_^ Mostly Delerium.

So, I need help compiling this CD. I'd appriciate any help anyone could lend me, esspecially you DJ's with your vast libraries of music.

Just please, if you gimme some obscure artists, gimme a url or something. ^_^ I may need more to go off of than a p2p network dealiebob. ^_^

Here's what i think you may like:
-Peter Gabriel: Red Rain, In Your Eyes, Come Talk To Me, Games without Frontiers (i could go on and on about him, heh)
-Lorena Mckennitt: Mummer's Dance (I frigging LOVE this song) and Santiago
-Sarah Brightman: Eden
-Cranberries: Zombie
-Madonna: Frozen
-REM: Losing My Religion
And if you want something slow and sad, i'd suggest:
-Adiago for Strings (i think it's by Barber something, but i can't find it). Whenever i'm writing (and i write a whole lot) and it's a sad scene, i always listen to it. It's moving, imo.

Dunno if these would help, but when you said

Firia wrote:mood music

I thought of the songs which made me feel happy/sad/in love/etc

I'll add some more in after i search through my computer some more.

First off, for an MP3 CD, figure 170 songs. You might be able to push 200, but with the likes of Delerium, i seriously doubt it.

As for music... egad.

Orbital - The Box (either version. I have both the 6:28 and 6:00 version)
Orbital - Dwr Budr
Orbital - Belfast
Orbital - Fahrenheit 3D3 (kinda iffy on this one)
Orbital - Midnight
Orbital - Halcyon + On + On (yes, that is the name of the song)
Orbital - Science Fiction
Orbital - Way Out
The Orb - Earth Orbit Two - Earth (Gaia)
The Orb - Earth Orbit Three - Supernova at the End of the Universe
The Orb - Spanish Castles in Space
The Orb - Perpetual Dawn
The Orb - Star 6 & 7 8 9
The Orb - A Huge Evergrowing Pulsating Brain That Rules From the Centre of the Ultraworld (one of the longest song titles I know... and its 18:46 long)
The Orb - Bedouin
Superior - Polariod Millenium (off the Saint Soundtrack)
Dreadzone - A Dream Within A Dream (same as above)
Juno Reactor - Solaris
Juno Reactor - Song For Ancestors
Juno Reactor - Landing
ANYTHING by Delerium
Leftfield - Melt
Leftfield - El Cid

One thing about Orbital and The Orb (more the former) is that they both are semi-trance, but also semi-dance. So they will have a strong bass line in many songs, but also very relaxing. They also use some samples, but not to excess like many "dance" songs. I realize that some of these songs may not fit what you consider "mood music", but they are what can calm me down after one of those LOOOONG days at work. It is more relaxing than what I usually listen to. (think Veldron's or Lauri's show crossed with Otori's, with some of Nexeus' and Tastyvixen's thrown in, and a helping of Tarryk's)

The *real* person to contact (if he is still around) is Wulfven.

Also, let me know if you find something in that list you *really* like, and I can root around in my music for more stuff like it, or give you the album name.

Also, both Orbital and The Orb like to make lots of "ambient" type songs, using all kinds of natural sounds (some mixed together better than others), if that is what you are looking for.

Maenos, REM Is the devil.

*Locks the door, puts sandbags up, grabs cannon*

Ooooh....

Great to hear this though Firia. ^_^ I'm a big fan of that sort of music too, if you know of any good delerium/enigma/enya song, please tell! I need to know more good songs! ^_^

The only name for it is probably "Soothing", but a name that can be considreed is Drama (For stuff that is more emotional and strong),


Dead Can Dance - Wiccan Ocean *The band has a enya feeling to them, more arabic though*
dead can dance - the host of seraphim
dead can dance - black sun *Like this one a lot*
Nightwish - Dead Boy's Poem *Thank you Tarryk, for informing me of this band!*

Try the Lord of the Rings soundtracks, Firia. ^_^ As well as the soundtrack to some movie called Last of the Mohicians.

Mood?...
Goldfinger - Superman, Goldfinger - Superman, Goldfinger - Superman, Goldfinger - Superman, Goldfinger - Superman, Goldfinger - Superman, Goldfinger - Superman, Goldfinger - Superman, Goldfinger - Superman, Goldfinger - Superman, Goldfinger - Superman, Goldfinger - Superman!
Goldfinger - King for a day
Goldfinger - Lonely place

That's about what I got for mood... It's mellow/happy stuff... Everything else I own is either Punk or Metal'ish... Doubt it's very moodfull...

Oh! here's one tho!
Man-O-War - Master of the wind

Hope it's of any use...


Tm

Enya - Boadecia

Good mood music. Enya is good stuff.

Oddy, we know you love Goldfinger - Superman, so no need to spam it =D

170 mp3's on one 700MB/80 minute CD!?!?! Maybe if they are encoded at 24kbps, which would be horrible sound quality. When I rip from a CD to mp3 format, I prefer 192kbps, and 128kbps at the VERY least. Example:

Delerium - Twilight
Bit Rate: 128kbps
Duration: 6:06
Size: 5.59MB

Now, if I'm using something like Easy CD Creator, its gonna use up some of the disc space with formatting, etc. If you want REAL good sound quality, you're gonna go with 192kbps which increases the file size quite a bit. With all said and done, you are going to be damn lucky to get 100 tracks on that CD.

Anyways, as of the type of music....as I said before, New Age is NOT the genre you are looking for. New Age is the stuff you find on the rack in your local science store that is usuallly a collection of waterfalls and frog noises. Ambient is a much better description. Some good suggestions here. The Orb and Orbital are prolly 2 of the most affleunt in ambient stuff, Coil, Tear Garden, The Legendary Pink Dots are some more you might like.

nyow.
I wanna keep away from Trancy techno ambiant music. ^_^ Trance will have no place on this CD of 100 mp3's. ^_^

I am confused because I have always thought of Enigma as trancy techno ambient music...

We could try and narrow it down a bit. Which of these is most like what you're looking for? All links have short mp3 samples, and some of them are even obscure.

One

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Five

Six

I picked up the Return of the King soundtrack...

Just shut up.

And the ending song seems quite nice to what you described, Firia.


Annie Lennox - Into the West *Enya ish*

Doesn't really fit into the styles of music you are talkin' bout...... still

Garbage and their song "Thirteen"

might at least fit the basic mood you are talkin' bout, though I admit it helps being a guy to love to hear Shirley Manson sing like that

Man! ^_^ I'll check all this out when I get the opertunity. I havn't had time lately. I've been buuuusy. ^_^; Phew.