Share here your secret/best music for optimal mapping session!

[Astro X]

The title pretty much says it all.

 

I am (possibly others are too) looking for some good and inspiring music to listen to when trying to come up with the best design and setups for Doom maps :)

[Xyzzу]

My favorite album of all time c:

 

[Pezl]

Well, if i listen to music while mapping then i go for czech punk songs or just some radio or whatever mix

Edited November 22, 2022 by Pezl

[SharkyChip]

I like to listen to this playlist of Jimmy Paddock's music. It makes my brain enter some sort of "Doom mode" in which I genuinely feel like I'm thinking in a different language. It's helped me design encounters and I enjoy having it on the background as I decorate areas

[staros96]

Generally Vaporwave for these sessions.

or sometimes, a mix of other Doom streamers who are on, OR one of our local radio stations discussing current affairs. Weird I know, but makes me feel in touch with the world still hahaha 

[Silhouette 03]

I usually listen to this stream when mapping. If I'm speedmapping I listen to a variety of different artists, mostly electronic music without lyrics as I don't want to get distracted.

[Somniac]

I tend to listen to MIDIs or minimalist electronica, and nothing too "busy" sounding. The extended versions of the Doom soundtracks on youtube are quite good for this.

[Sneezy McGlassFace]

Jammin'

 

Edited November 23, 2022 by Sneezy McGlassFace
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[Sonikkumania]

 

[Thelokk]

 

 

 

Unironically these on repeat.

[yakfak]

let's plays of puzzle games or old dungeon crawlers

lol

i been a musician for a squillion years and a music blog bug just as long and i'm so burned out i have to force myself to listen to things or i never will

latest endeavour is getting into all that nineties post-hardcore like unwound, leading up to getting into 2000s math rock in earnest rather than just being able to name-drop it

[Maribo]

1 minute ago, yakfak said:

latest endeavour is getting into all that nineties post-hardcore like unwound, leading up to getting into 2000s math rock in earnest rather than just being able to name-drop it

Not quite mapping, but I've definitely listened to Unwound albums when recording demos.

 

22 hours ago, Xyzzy01 said:

My favorite album of all time c:

-snip-

2814 <3

 

Here's a handful of tunes I've mapped to:
 

Spoiler

 

 

 

https://sonicyouth.bandcamp.com/album/cotton-crown-pch?label=1397626804&amp;tab=music - this specific version of Pacific Coast Highway

 

[BedrockCastle]

Here's some of my personal favorite metal albums.

Spoiler

 

Cowboys From Hell - Pantera

God Hates Us All - Slayer

Kill 'Em All - Metallica

Number of the Beast - Iron Maiden

Paranoid - Black Sabbath

Fistful of Metal - Anthrax

Show No Mercy - Slayer

Master of Reality - Black Sabbath

Somewhere in Time - Iron Maiden

Vulgar Display of Power - Pantera

Ride the Lightning - Metallica

 

 

Edited November 23, 2022 by BedrockCastle

[Xyzzу]

In addition to t e l e p a t h テレパシー能力者, one half of the artists who made the 2184 series of albums I posted above, I'd also like to mention NxxxxxS, EASTGHOST, and kudasai as I have enjoyed listening to their works equally as much and the results of my mapping sessions have been inspired and influenced by all of them.

Edited November 23, 2022 by Xyzzy01

[PeterMoro]

 

[IcarusOfDaggers]

I usually use a combination of my regular music playlist (Pretty wide net of styles starting with 80's pop songs all the way to modern electronic music based genres) + the one midi in the wad. 

Edited November 23, 2022 by IcarusOfDaggers

[Alaxzandarz]

I have been listening to these two quite a bit recently:

 

 

 

but most of the time I end up listening to a blend of vn openings, videogame music, random internet remixes and some normal songs

Edited November 23, 2022 by Alaxzandarz

[Sneezy McGlassFace]

1 hour ago, Alaxzandarz said:

I have been listening to these two quite a bit recently:
 

Spoiler

 

 

but most of the time I end up listening to a blend of vn openings, videogame music, random internet remixes and some normal songs

 

It's incredible how much Ulver's music style changed over the years.

[Sonikkumania]

2 minutes ago, Sneezy McGlassFace said:

 

It's incredible how much Ulver's music style changed over the years.

Hell yeah. AoJC is a damn good album nevertheless.

[Alaxzandarz]

1 hour ago, Sneezy McGlassFace said:

It's incredible how much Ulver's music style changed over the years.

 

And it's even more impressive that pretty much everything they have done is good.

 

also:

Spoiler

Flowers of Evil was the first vinyl I ever bought. Clear vinyl is fucking beautiful.

 

 

[Nefelibeta]

 

 

(yep they're weeb af)

[Roofi]

My reply won't answer the initial post, but I try as much as possible to listen to the music I plan to use in my map. The music is an integral part of the level design which is planned in advance if possible. Listening to it while mapping helps to get into the swing of things and to know the pace to adopt regarding the map.

 

In a deep mapping session, I can listen to the same music for hours.

 

Now, I will throw my recommandation for you :

 

 

 

Edited November 25, 2022 by Roofi

[Some Spoony Bard]

Almost anything from Falcom games works as good background music for any creative thing I find myself doing. I've been putting together a playlist of lots of their music that would make for good map BGM, and I have made MIDI arrangements for a few of these as well.

 

[Herr Dethnout]

15 minutes ago, Some Spoony Bard said:

Almost anything from Falcom games works as good background music for any creative thing I find myself doing. I've been putting together a playlist of lots of their music that would make for good map BGM, and I have made MIDI arrangements for a few of these as well.

Ah Falcom, one of the few companys that used the Yamaha XG format. Battle theme from Dragon Slayer: Legend of Heroes is badass.

[Some Spoony Bard]

3 minutes ago, Herr Dethnout said:

Ah Falcom, one of the few companys that used the Yamaha XG format. Battle theme from Dragon Slayer: Legend of Heroes is badass.

I mean, I know they used it for some of their MIDI albums in the mid-90s, but outside of that it seems like they just stuck to GS or GM format. At least that means the songs from their early Windows titles are easily rippable >:)

[Herr Dethnout]

4 minutes ago, Some Spoony Bard said:

I mean, I know they used it for some of their MIDI albums in the mid-90s, but outside of that it seems like they just stuck to GS or GM format. At least that means the songs from their early Windows titles are easily rippable >:)

Yup, most japanese used GS and GM and before that LA (MT-32) for games (Sharp X68k is the prime example), I think that Roland format was more popular (and close to the GM) than XG. In fact, the GM2 is based on GS format. But they used XG in PCE CD Games, iirc YS 3 CD was composed with a MU2000EX, and I'm 80% sure that Legend of Heroes CD too.

As a fun fact: Square was another company who used XG in his games (FF7 & 8 for PC, although that midis where made by Yamaha itself, sounds like it came out from PS1, great quality)

[Some Spoony Bard]

1 minute ago, Herr Dethnout said:

But they used XG in PCE CD Games, iirc YS 3 CD was composed with a MU2000EX, and I'm 80% sure that Legend of Heroes CD too.
 

Yamaha XG MIDI modules came out WAY after the Ys and Legend of Heroes PCE CD games (and the MU2000EX specifically didn't come out until the year 2000). A majority of those OSTs were made using synths and drum machines of the late 80s, like the Korg M1, Roland R-8, D-50 and Yamaha DX7. And that's just the ones that Hudson Soft did the ports for. Falcom's own Legend of Xanadu PCE CD games mostly just used Roland synths from what I can tell. I think there was SOME incorporation of sounds from Yamaha MU modules in Falcom's early Windows games, but I don't really know enough to verify for certain.
Also, I realize the thread is getting a bit off-topic, so I'll stop here. Sometimes I can't help but be a huge nerd about old synths. :P

[Herr Dethnout]

9 minutes ago, Some Spoony Bard said:

Yamaha XG MIDI modules came out WAY after the Ys and Legend of Heroes PCE CD games (and the MU2000EX specifically didn't come out until the year 2000). A majority of those OSTs were made using synths and drum machines of the late 80s, like the Korg M1, Roland R-8, D-50 and Yamaha DX7. And that's just the ones that Hudson Soft did the ports for. Falcom's own Legend of Xanadu PCE CD games mostly just used Roland synths from what I can tell. I think there was SOME incorporation of sounds from Yamaha MU modules in Falcom's early Windows games, but I don't really know enough to verify for certain.
Also, I realize the thread is getting a bit off-topic, so I'll stop here. Sometimes I can't help but be a huge nerd about old synths. :P

Oh yeah, you're right, the first MU didn't came out until 94 (and even that one wasn't XG yet) and the PCE CD games came out in first in 1991-92, I don't know why I came up with that conclusion, I remember reading that YS 3 used a Yamaha MU for music probably The Oath in Felghana? but I remember hearing a Yamaha drum samples on Legend of Heroes, so probably from a older sample (TX16W or a another synth with similar samples maybe?) Yup, this is getting into the the Off-Topic realm, sooo I will stop here too. :P

Edited November 26, 2022 by Herr Dethnout

[INfront95]

Smooth Jazz and rain\Caffe atmosphere 10 hours. Or Russian Doomer music playlist 6 hours. Depends on the work.
Last time It was playlist of Japaneese Future Funk

Edited November 26, 2022 by INfront95

[heliumlamb]