Ambient science fiction music - suggestions?

Funglegunk

I loves me some ambient science fiction music, great for listening to when I'm at work. Science fiction movies are understandably a great source for this, any other suggestions? So far I have a playlist:

Dune OST - Toto - Trip To Arrakis
Dune OST - Brian Eno - The Prophecy
Blade Runner OST - Eye On The City
Blade Runner OST - Blade Runner Blues
Blade Runner OST - Tears In Rain

Anybody else got any good suggestions?

ixoy

Some of the tricks off of 'Sunshine', particularly "Sunshine (Adagio in D Minor)" and Underworld's "To Heal" off the same soundtrack are very good.

nyarlothothep

That Brian Eno track which is used in Top Gear

Corsendonk

Brian Eno An Ending

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOgQyIMX_XU

Johann Johannsson Fordlandia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dt7pjz3Vr_4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoDDHZ_JZBc

Blackhorse Slim

Biosphere - Microgravity album is perfect for me.

Hard to believe this is nearly 20 years old!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4m2Y4VVqLdg

Tenshot

A few others off the top of my head - not from actual films, but could have been:

Songs of Distant Earth - Mike Oldfield
Dream Sequence (Best of) - Tangerine Dream
Stuntman - Edgar Froese (esp "Drunken Mozart in the Desert")
Terraformer - Andy Pickford (also his album 'Replicant')
The Uncertainty Principle - Ian Boddy
Surface 10 - Surface 10

And of course:

Babylon 5 OST (zillions of CDs) - Christopher Franke

Dan_Solo

Aliens OST
A lot of Jean Michel Jarre fits the bill.
Front 242 and Kraftwerk are very SF, and the lyrica are incidental really.

Spunge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J4H3o2om7c

Eve online has some great ambient music

bonkey

I quite like the soundtrack to The Fifth Element, by Eric Serra.

(aside : Serra's soundtrack to The Big Blue is also pretty amazing, even if not science fiction)

sushisushi

Daft Punk!

Echolalia

Approaching Mons Olympus by balloon (Utopia Planitia) by The Flaming Lips

Funglegunk

Thanks for the suggestions guys, I'm going to try and put together a public playlist of all this stuff, is last.fm the best way to do this or is there a better site?

Also, I never posted youtube vids of my initial suggestions so I'm going to do that now.

Dune OST - Toto - Trip To Arrakis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLiwTUCoeEI

Dune OST - Brian Eno - The Prophecy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4SwFhfNh1w

Blade Runner OST - Eye On The City (I can't find the soundtrack version of this on YouTube. Going to post opening scene instead.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbWNZkoQHuE

Blade Runner OST - Blade Runner Blues

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSKlDDKxHFw

Blade Runner OST - Tears In Rain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWuJWVp7jNg

chopperbyrne

Almost anything from Metroid Prime with the following probably being the best:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbbUv1hz6mE

Trojan

The Tron Legacy soundtrack is awesome.

Sarky

I've had good results with some of the more ambient stuff from Nine Inch Nails and God Is An Astronaut, supplemented by computer game soundtracks, like EVE as previously mentioned, Fallout 3, and especially Homeworld.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1ccNiPUJQs

dots03

I'm a big fan of the Moon OST by Clint Mansell (who makes great soundtracks in general)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lAfMT5FIZE

for some gentle electronic waves check out Stars of the Lid

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfZlr4nY8Ew&feature=related

Vessels from the Koyyanisqatsi soundtrack is also cool.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuTsMngF20c

great idea for a thread by the way...