Intercultural Nerd Dance Party: Input Needed!

[Grimrider6]

Hallo Escapist,

So, I'm in Japan, and I have a friend who's made his own nerd dance party event (named "Americana", in case any Escapists are going to be in Nagoya in early November). Simply put, it's an event with three Japanese DJs and three American DJs, each mixing music from anime, cartoons, video games, and YouTube/NicoNico memes.

The event already has its own DJs, and I am not one of them, but due to the schedule being opened up somewhat, I have the opportunity to choose some music to fill up about 15 minutes of time. I've decided I want to represent classic PC gaming, which hasn't gotten much love at previous versions of the event.

I want to put up some dance(-able) remixes of songs from games including, but not limited to:

Portal
Deus Ex (original or Human Revolution. Not Invisible War, because there never was a Deus Ex 2)
System Shock 2
anything else that says "old school PC games"

I've been scouring YouTube and other sources, of course, but there's a chance somebody here knows something I've missed. If you know anything good, post about it here please! Thank you!

As an offering to start the ball rolling, I give you Cybernetika's remix of the Hydroponics Deck theme from SS2.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKa46RxoxAw

 

[7moreDead_v1legacy]

My two robodads
http://www.myspace.com/mytworobodads

Stuff from Frank klepacki
*Edit* Grendel have some ghost in the shell bits in their music.
about 2.35ish in
at about 2.50ish

 

[Grimrider6]

My two robot dads or something like that(trying to find some music)...
Stuff from Frank klepacki
*Edit* Grendel have some ghost in the shell bits in their music.

Actually, I have a Ghost in the Shell remix in mind already ^_^

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs-16pI2PZk

Still, C&C Red Alert is a good idea... I never even thought of that.

 

[Grimrider6]

Would itbe shameless of me to bump my own thread, just this once?

 

[Wadders]

Are there any remixes of some of the tracks from HL2? Some of those were pretty dancy, or could be turned into dancy stuff easily. Just a suggestion

I'd look and find links for you myself, but at the moment my Uni internet sucks giant donkey phallus, so it would be more trouble than its worth

 

[subject_87]

There's a fantastic song that goes to an online Flash game called Age of War:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bupXb1Cby2U

 

[Grimrider6]

Are there any remixes of some of the tracks from HL2? Some of those were pretty dancy, or could be turned into dancy stuff easily. Just a suggestion

I'd look and find links for you myself, but at the moment my Uni internet sucks giant donkey phallus, so it would be more trouble than its worth

I tried finding HL2 tracks, but there are surprisingly few on YouTube.

 

[Grimrider6]

System Shock 2

I don't know much about dancing, but I'm pretty sure that Med/Sci 1 is danceable on its own, without being remixed. A lot of SS2's music is there to create a creepy ambience, though.

Yeah, only the high-tension tracks work well for this kind of thing. I was considering the Coolant Tubes theme as well, but I think I'm going to stick with the Hydroponics remix I posted earlier to represent SS2.

The reason remixes are better is because they usually add a little variety to the song. The in-game tune is intentionally looping and repetitive because it's in the background. But when it's only the music, it sometimes needs a little more flourish.

Anyways, thanks for the suggestion!

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

Two things that popped into my mind were the Intro theme from Shogo: Mobile Armour Division and the music from the first level of Doom.

Spoiler: Doom

I could see either doing well in a club, but in most cases it would take two different types of club.

 

[Lullabye]

How about some of the Scott Pilgrim vs the World soundtrack?