Sci-Fi-esque music

[zero]

So I'm trying to create this mix CD of strange, trippy Sci-Fi kind of music and I need your input. You guys are always good at helping out on stuff like this. The lead track is Muse "Map of the Problematique" and other stuff I have is basically what you'd hear at a Pink Floyd Laser Light Show. Any suggestions?

[Steeb]

Some Aphex Twin maybe?

[Dr. Rated-R]

I might be off here, but perhaps some stuff in the vein of the Mars Volta?

[YI]

"The Passenger" by Bad Astronaut. More 'spacey' and such, than sci-fi.

Edited January 16, 2007 by Steve Mandela

[zero]

Mars Volta and Aphex Twin are great suggestions... rather unfamiliar with Bad Astronaut, I'll need to check em out. Keep them coming. Oh, and the first person to mention Linkin Park gets decapitated.

Edited January 16, 2007 by Zero

[YI]

Mars Volta and Aphex Twin are great suggestions... rather unfamiliar with Bad Astronaut, I'll need to check em out. Keep them coming.

Edited January 16, 2007 by Steve Mandela

[MalaCloudy Black]

Linkin Park.

[-A-]

First thing that sprung to mind: At the Drive-In - 'Arc Arsenal'

[Robsturgh]

I got this very weird CD a while ago by a band called Star One and the album is called, and I shit you not, Space Metal. Obviously, its Space-themed metal, but some of the songs are fairly trippy (and awesome).

[daileyxplanet]

Look up Brave Saint Saturn.

[Steeb]

First thing that sprung to mind: At the Drive-In - 'Arc Arsenal'

[lari]

I got this very weird CD a while ago by a band called Star One and the album is called, and I shit you not, Space Metal. Obviously, its Space-themed metal, but some of the songs are fairly trippy (and awesome).

[Heel Turn]

Dunno if this is in the vein you're looking for, but I was thinking about almost anything by Vangelis (particularly off the Blade Runner OST). Instrumental Alan Parsons Project might work also.

[Mick]

"Masters of the Universe" by Juno Reactor.

The "Prophecy Theme" from Dune

[Bushmeister]

Subarachnoid Space is a must. Very trippy, Floyd-esque space prog rock.

As mentioned before, Ayreon, specifically the album "The Universal Migrator" (both parts)

Mortiis' "The Smell Of Rain" is his later, more techno-influenced work and thus has a more sci-fi feel to it. There's also "The Stargate" and a side project called Fata Morgana that are EXCELLENT ambient albums, but they tend towards more of a fantasy theme rather than sci-fi.

Apoptygma Berzerk, almost any material really, though it might be not ideal since it isn't as strictly instrumental/progressive as most of the artists mentioned so far.

Kid606's "Resilience" and Squarepusher's "Hello Everything", tricky and trippy electronic music that jumble a crapload of different genres into the spans of single albums.

Oooh, almost forgot Arcturus! Their latest release "Sideshow Symphonies" about space pirates and contains some very effective metal music. Their back catalogue is also excellent, but the further back you go the harsher and more black metal their sound becomes.

That's as far as my brain can take me at this point.

[Farmer Reil]

Queen - Flash ¬_¬

What about some VNV Nation? Maybe I'm "way off base" as you Americans say ¬_¬

[GhostMachine]

Just for the heck of it, I'd like to recommend "Cars" by Gary Numan. The original version, NOT the remake he did with Fear Factory.

[Godfatha]

I'd like to mention Squarepusher although that's more trippy than anything else.

[Vilge Duin]

A lot of their music is more "jungle"-like (being goa trance it's bound to happen) but I find a fair few Juno Reactor songs would fit perfectly well in a sci-fi type scope.

[Gongsun Zan]

There's a nifty remix of the DOOM soundtrack on OCRemix. You could try taking a look at that.