Alien related
During my incarceration last week, I stumbled across this while browsing a thread for sleeping thread in /mu/
Nostromo is a dark ambient album by a fellow who calls himself SleepResearch_Facility. Immediately, the first post of the thread was about his debut album
Nostromo.
I know what you're thinking, and you're right. This album was designed to mimic the sounds of the ship, the Nostromo in the iconic movie Alien. It's also developed with sleep in mind, and the article says that it's been used on insomnia patients the like. To me this is awesome as shit, as I love stuff like that. Here's the wikipedia article.
Album Art
Tracks
1 a-deck 14:01 14:00
2 b-deck 11:52 12:03 The first column is the original release, and the second is the re-release
3 c-deck 11:57 11:46
4 d-deck 12:37 12:37
5 e-deck 11:21 11:04
(Re-Release only) Narcissus — 7:52
So yeah, I figured you guys might think this is cool. I have a mediafire link if anybody wants it.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostromo_(album)
A Deck
C Deck
http://facepunch.com/threads/1095176?highlight=
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Nostromo is mainly inspired by the fictional spaceship of the same name in the 1979 science fiction/horror film Alien. Kevin Doherty, the single member of SleepResearch Facility, has described this film as "a masterpiece of dark atmospheres and brooding suspense", adding that it is "my all time favorite film".[2] At the beginning of the film, the ship is travelling through deep space, and its seven human crew members are unconscious in hypersleep. The ship is dark and quiet, but not silent – all manner of mechanical and electronic systems are slowly ticking over, producing a ceaseless flow of low background noise.
The album Nostromo explores this shadowy, haunting atmosphere, taking the listener on a deep aural journey through the ship's decks. In the film, the Nostromo has three decks (A, B and C),[3] but the album adds two more fictitious decks, D and E, with one CD track per deck. Each track flows smoothly into the next, with no gaps of silence in-between, and as with all of SleepResearch_Facility's music, Nostromo is very sleep-conducive if played at low volume. The bonus track Narcissus on the 2007 reissue is named after the fictional spaceship in Alien; the Narcissus is the lifeboat of the Nostromo.
The album's main aural components are: loops of deep pulsating bass (especially in "a-deck" and "d-deck"), washes of smooth industrial noise, mysterious droning synthesiser chords (particularly in "b-deck" and "c-deck"), electrostatic crackling, and other deep mechanical sounds. Kevin Doherty has said that the creation of Nostromo involved "synthesisers and such to generate things, lots of studio equipment like effects machines, radios, waves of feedback from analogue equipment looping back on itself and a big mixing desk to bind it all together on."[4]
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