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 Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 2:50 pm
I plan on forming a band soon as well. However, I plan on exploring EVERY Facet of the ####-Punk societies.
Each album will be in a similar MUSIC style, but will be about different things.
For instance, the first will be about Steampunk, then Biopunk, then Cyberpunk, and so on.
Whenever I make the steampunk one, there'll be shitloads of Ayn Rand of course :3
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Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 4:26 am
Ooo, I like that idea actually. I've only been in a ska band before, but we barely made an album's worth of songs, let alone several shaped around the *-punk concepts biggrin I think I might (shockingly) pay for that sort of theme, and I wouldn't be alone, since you'd be tapping into several fandoms at once.
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Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 1:58 pm
But that leads us back to the question: How would Steampunk music be formed? I personally envision a lot of acoustic guitar, piano, simple drum lines, and various windblown instruments on lead... Maybe a jazzy feel.
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Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 2:13 pm
Sidnay But that leads us back to the question: How would Steampunk music be formed? I personally envision a lot of acoustic guitar, piano, simple drum lines, and various windblown instruments on lead... Maybe a jazzy feel. I'm afraid I have to disagree...perhaps because I just have no liking for Jazz, but I feel that it has no place in Steampunk musics. For me I would have to keep it in the Victorian era - and I cannot imagine for one minute Jazz music fitting nicely in such a period. I view it as more refined, with a bent towards classical, with an exotic feel to it (given the expance of the British Empire such influence would be impossible to avoid). Also, Jazz isn't as rich for my liking...despite brass being a staple material in steampunk, in an instrument I prefer to keep it at a distance... I hate to pin my views down to one band, but from the way I imagine it, Abney Park habe it just right in their songs (esp. Airship Pirate, Hidden Track and Doctor Calgori (also She if you forgive generic subject matter). Or maybe I'm just mad, feel free to ignore me.
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Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 10:48 am
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Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 11:56 am
Imber Sidnay But that leads us back to the question: How would Steampunk music be formed? I personally envision a lot of acoustic guitar, piano, simple drum lines, and various windblown instruments on lead... Maybe a jazzy feel. I'm afraid I have to disagree...perhaps because I just have no liking for Jazz, but I feel that it has no place in Steampunk musics. For me I would have to keep it in the Victorian era - and I cannot imagine for one minute Jazz music fitting nicely in such a period. I view it as more refined, with a bent towards classical, with an exotic feel to it (given the expance of the British Empire such influence would be impossible to avoid). Also, Jazz isn't as rich for my liking...despite brass being a staple material in steampunk, in an instrument I prefer to keep it at a distance... I hate to pin my views down to one band, but from the way I imagine it, Abney Park habe it just right in their songs (esp. Airship Pirate, Hidden Track and Doctor Calgori (also She if you forgive generic subject matter). Or maybe I'm just mad, feel free to ignore me. On the contrary: I never make it a point to ignore a good idea. biggrin I can certainly see where you come from, but to me Steampunk is the action against industrialization, which in my mind is linked quite irreversibly to urbanization. Jazz (and in many ways the Blues, though granted the Country Blues is more a reaction to things in the country, in the cotton fields), is the sound of a city growing and exploring boundaries, but the undercurrent of blues and jazz music is the sound of sorrow and oppression by a racist and hypocritical government. I contend that is has a very real place in steampunk culture (granted, I know very little about That aside, jazz and music hall music, also has a lot in common (or at least, there CAN be a lot of potential)! It helps the poor, downtrodden workers escape from the factories and their reality of suffering through music, self expression and (thus) art. I think this is a very true manifestation of Steampunk ideology. Feel free to contest this! That is how great ideas come about!
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Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 2:56 pm
I’ve enjoyed several of the bands mentioned on this thread before I looked into steampunk -- DeVotchKa, Humanwine, Dresden Dolls, Flogging Molly -- but I’ve never really considered them steampunk. Gypsy punk, punk cabaret, Celtic punk, maybe. (There really should be a term for all of these derivations of punk that draw on past times and cultures. Anachropunk? Xenopunk?)
I apologize, but I’ve checked into some of the more steampunk groups, including Abney Park, and have been disappointed. The music that I have heard seem more monotonously brooding, where I was hoping for some more jangling gears and ironic flamboyance and classical instrumentation. Have I just been listening to the wrong tracks?
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Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 2:00 pm
I agree a lot with Jonni. The discussion of just what is Steampunk music may lead to good songs, but I find that quite a lot of it is not very Steampunk to me. Abney Park was especially disappointing. It just sounds so goth to me. I'm more of a fan of the lighter side of steampunk though, so that might influence me. I did like Rasputina though, she had a nice touch.
My father, who's quite a fan of Steampunk, recommended Renaissance which isn't perfect but does has a steamy vibe, but again, it depends on how you like your steampunk. Personally, I discovered Midlake, and while I don't know about all of their tracks, I think that the song Paper Gown has the perfect 'canned' early radio sound that I expect in Steampunk music.
I feel like what some songs are missing is someone to experiment with the percussion, someone who's not afraid to bring out some hand cranks and anvils to create an industrial sound along the lines of what Jonni said.
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Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2008 5:01 am
i am currently working on my own steam-punk band named "Magmatic Lights" we do have a myspace http://myspace.com/magmaticlightsbandtheres not an awful lot on it at the moment but i do mean to get some songs up on it as soon as we have mastered them on pro-tools.
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Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 4:06 am
just a quick up-date to tell you that the Magmatic Lights myspace now has two songs on it.
please give them a listen when you have a spare moment and let me know what you think.
we are sort of going for a Tom Waits meets industrial vibe.
i am working on some more jazz-esque experimental songs which i'll get up there soon.
the image is very steam-punk which i am trying to reflect in the lyrics.
it wasnt originally meant to be a metal project but it just sort of mutated into metal as it went along.
i hope you enjoy it and if not tell me why?.
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Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 10:39 pm
It looks like I'll be composing a number of Steam pieces in the near future. Some of my compatriots and I are in the process of creating a role-playing game for the PC that will feature heavily a Steampunk city. I'd appreciate any help I can get.
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Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 3:14 am
Abney Park is definitely high on the list but lets not forget the others.
Emilie Autumn
Johnny Hollow (To a lesser degree)
Dresden Dolls
Just to name a few, there are others out there, as others have mentioned, but those are the ones that spring to the forefront of my mind.
Some music from games as well. Many post-apocalyptic games have a very steampunk playlist.
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Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 4:08 pm
First I see "Steampunk" and "music" in the same sentence, and I start breathing rapidly.
Then I find that many are available on emusic, and I start to hyperventilate.
And now I find a list that claims it has various steam punk artists! On the site I download from!
I can't breathe eek
I might have some sweet music in the future, once I have downloaded and such...
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Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 3:05 pm
I read through this briskly to get an idea of what's been posted/what hasn't, and I have a few to contribute.
The Scarring Party - More reminiscent of the 20's, but still. Kinda end-of-the-world lyrics, and oom-pa instrumentation.
Circus Contraption/Armitage Shanks - It's basically old-time circus music! What more would a steampunk ask for?
Jill Tracy - Dark, piano-based cabaret music that sounds like it's from a different time.
Arthur Collins - Genuine music of the late 1800's! It's a must have for walking around with portable speakers disguised as a Victrola. ...That's what I do at least. Also - good to listen to with people over. It throws them off.
Elemental - Not downright steam, but his song "Cup of Brown Joy" is delightful! It's a gentlemanly hip-hop song about TEA! Highly recommended.
I must also second Jason Webley, The Decemberists, Dr. Steel, Abney Park, etc.
Enjoy!
-Dr. J.M. Renfield
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Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 7:51 am
 While likely not 'steampunk' per se, I feel the Deadfly Ensemble deserve a recommendation here. They're a bizarre . . . cabaretish . . . old fashioned folk/deathrock/mess of insanity. And also a side project of Lucas Lanthier from Cinema Strange. So they're pretty much nifty. *er-hem* From their last.fm page . . . “Mother, I am hungry for some musical theater! I long for acoustic guitars, medieval melodies and operatic librettos! I would hear stories of the idle rich, humanoid anomalies, and criminal geniuses of the early nineteenth century! I need to observe the melodious consumption of fruit and the sifting through of old newspapers and listen to the prattle of simple minds and the banter of their superiors! I crave songs that deliver me into new worlds from far away, from long ago, and introduce me to characters I’d be, otherwise, afraid to know! Mother, I am hungry for some theatrical music!” “My dear! What you want is the Deadfly Ensemble!” -- OH AND Here's the link for the Cup of Brown Joy video, as to not post it would be criminal! TEA!!!! ^_^
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