I need some tunes, yo.

[Dark Tangent]

Every year I try and put together some music to play during the breaks at BH that is hacker inspired, or has some sort of governmnet conspiracy feel to it.

Well I've run out, and want to ask everyone to please comment by suggesting a song, and letting me know the band and why it fits. Then I can run out and buy the music and build the compilation to play.

I know for sure there will be:
"The telephone call" - Kraftwerk
"Pocket Calculator" - Kraftwek
"Electric Eye" - Judas Priest. It's about an all seeing spy guy who watches over the population, trying to make the world "right"
"I'd start a revolution (If I could get out of bed)" - Amiee something or other. I like the Gen-X slacker ideals mixed with the reality that revolutions actually take effort!
"Technologic" - Daft Punk.
Some tracks from the Ghost in the Shell series.

Anyway, you get the idea. Let the song ideas flood in!

[TheCotMan]

Well I've run out, and want to ask everyone to please comment by suggesting a song, and letting me know the band and why it fits.

Old:
NiN: Head Like A Hole
"Head like a hole, Black like your soal, I'd rather die, than give you control"
"Bow down before the one you serve, you're going to get what you deserve."
(Control issues)

Older:
Rolling Stones : Sympathy For The Devil
"Pleased to meet you, Hope you guessed my name, oh yeah
"But whats puzzling you, Is the nature of my game"
(Paranoia, conspiracy)

Rolling Stones : Time is on My Side
"Time is on my side"
Hackers : A problem will be fixed, it is just a matter of time.
Crackers: A system will be defeated, it is only a matter of time: many attackers with orders of magnitude more time and energy than a single defender-- especially when weakness in any defender brings risk.

Old, Cliche
Police : Every Breath You Take
Multiple metaphors available here for big brother watching, but may be overdone.

Not too old:
CoSV: (Chapel of Stilled Voices) "sameway"
Sound like a mechanical grind, steady, plodding, determined

Not too old:
AMP : Orbital : "The Box"
Mystery / Chase

AMP : Fluke "Atom Bomb"
"Baby got an atom bomb."
(What is a script kiddie with a DoS exploit, anyway?)

[Nikita]

It may be worth it to ask some of the featured DJs of DC past and present to record a track or two and add those songs into the mix. I really like the song, Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger by Daft Punk. The song really needs no explanation. Also Who Da Funk feat. Jessica Eve "Shiny Disco Balls" Lyrics: Drugs...rock 'n' roll...bad-ass vegas hoes...late-night booty calls...shiny disco balls... I think it fits. :-)

[renderman]

I hope you plan on legally aquiring all of that :)

A few come to mind for the conspiracy angle:

Bare Naked Ladies - Jump in Line - Second verse is very conspiracy oriented

Buffalo Springfield - For what it's worth - Classic, got some big brotherish overtones.
NIN & David Bowie - I'm afraid of Americans - Very big brotherish
Django Reindheart - Brazil (Or any version of the movie theme) AKA Aquarela Do Brasil
Incubus - Megalomaniac - Self explanitory

As for the hacker side:

Anything from the Large hot pipe organ (midi controlled, propane explosion powered outdoor organ, just google it)

Legion Of Green Men - Synaptic Response
Mirwais - Disco Science
Minibosses (ofcourse)
Several of the OpenBSD songs
Rage against the machine - guerilla radio
Any STOMP performances - Making cool music out of garbage, very hackeresque
Three dead trolls in a baggie - Every OS sucks - Self explainitory
Blue man group - The complex - Just very cool stuff

More appropriate for Defcon:

Spirit of the West - Home for a Rest - Google the lyrics
Arrogant Worms - The Beer Song - Google the lyrics

[Virosa]

Every year I try and put together some music to play during the breaks at BH that is hacker inspired, or has some sort of governmnet conspiracy feel to it.

Pretty much the entire CD of Queensryche - Operation : Mindcrime (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation:_mindcrime). Nice and angst-ey/anarchy-in-the-street-ey.

"I dream in infrared" is another cool 'Ryche tune, and the title is apropos, even if the lyrics aren't.

I'm also gonna recommend Dio's "Rainbow in the Dark", and claim that it ties in with Rainbow Tables, but really I just want to see 6000 dudes flyin' their freak flags at full mast and rockin' out to some RONNIE JAMES FUCKIN' DIO. Maybe someone could even throw up some horns.

[Dark Tangent]

"All about the Pentiums" - Weird Al

"Let's make lots of money" - Pet Shop Boys. "I can program a computer, choose the perfect time. If you've got the information, I've got the crime."

[converge]

Shoot.. at one point I had a whole list of songs that I thought fit some form of 'hacker' theme. First one that comes to mind is:

Bad Religion - Man With a Mission - Recipe for Hate track #5

I remember this because I snipped it and stuck a portion of it into the TBBQ3 Trailer video.

[skroo]

Figuring since we're onto control themes as well as just pure technology (and a lot of this is just for the atmosphere the songs create) :

Bad Religion: I Love My Computer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A769i51At9c&search=i%20love%20my%20computer) or 21st Century Digital Boy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtUlSympz00&search=21st%20century%20digital%20boy).

Sigue Sigue Sputnik: pretty much anything from the Flaunt It album, still one of the most cyberpunk pieces of album art and video EVER (and Love Missile F1-11 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk30a0qsVIk&search=sigue%20sigue%20sputnik) has the video to back it up). I'll admit to liking their music, too. Slave Trade from Piratespace is good, too - opens with a yell of, "YOU'RE ALL A FUCKING BUNCH OF SLAVES!" Also Barbarandroid, a B-Side from the Albinoni vs. Star Wars single (the full-length version of part 1 of which would work really well, now that I think of it). M*A*D or Is This The Future? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOX4qupBDpQ&search=is%20this%20the%20future) (crap fan video, but this one of my favourite songs) from Dress for Excess. The Hack Attack single.

Cassandra Complex: most of the Cyberpunx album, but especially Nightfall (Over E.C.), Jihad Girl, and Happy Days (War is here Again).

Information Society: most anything from the Information Society or Hack albums, though Where Would I Be Without IBM? from Don't Be Afraid would fit as well. Their best-known song: What's On Your Mind? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1h4aXbPS14&search=information%20society).

Going way back - Styx' Talking in Codes album.

Devo: Mongoloid (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nL0eObSwmnk&search=mongoloid) (ignore the bullshit that leads in), Space Junk, Freedom of Choice (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9hpMgKI_NU&search=devo%20freedom), Planet Earth, Cold War, Mechanical Man, Deep Sleep, Explosions, Shout, Are You Experienced? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnrEPRkqWEg&search=devo%20are%20you%20experienced), The Words Get Stuck In My Throat (the old KCUF sign-off tune from when Desert Crossing Radio was statically-located between Defcons)

Duran Duran: Planet Earth (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzqIiFBmdHs&search=duran%20duran%20planet%20earth) (=DOOMSDAY), The Chauffeur (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa7GnDw75Zg&search=duran%20duran%20chauffeur), Drive By. Careless Memories (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrRMiqj2vsE&search=careless%20memories) because it kicks ass.

Mi-Sex: Computer Games (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufBYaYJAERc&search=mi-sex%20computer%20games)

Trans-X: Living on Video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mIRbQk7VWk&search=living%20on%20video)

Oingo Boingo: Weird Science (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ha-LP__cinM&search=oingo%20boingo%20weird%20science) (Yeah, cheesy, I know, but ehh)

Ladytron: Cracked LCD (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4ZtDW6re30&search=ladytron%20lcd)

KMFDM: Dogma (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyB_yk6t_6o&search=kmfdm%20dogma) (bonus points for references to Videodrome (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086541/) and Scanners (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081455/))

Visage: Fade to Grey (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62vC1dzV-d8&search=fade%20to%20grey).

Billy Idol's Shock to the System (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grBLbiyJTDk&search=billy%20idol%20shock), Neuromancer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHbKCmVLYYo&search=billy%20idol%20neuromancer) (fan video). Cheesy but fits.

Sisters of Mercy: Vision Thing (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkJMe8KS5EA&search=sisters%20of%20mercy%20vision%20thing) (bad live version), Doctor Jeep (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYyv-gER8Mo&search=sisters%20of%20mercy%20vision%20thing) - or, as The Sisterhood: Finland Red, Egypt White (specifications of an AK-47 read over music)

Kraftwerk: Computer World

Jean-Michel Jarre: Magnetic Fields, but there's a lot that would fit. Complimentary to Kraftwerk, though different. Shown here: Oxygene 8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDP4uAYxSwA&search=oxygene%20jarre), which is a *lot* different to the earlier works.

Vangelis: Blade Runner Theme.

John Carpenter: theme to Escape from New York (synthy) or Escape from L.A. (more industrial-ish).

The Normal: TVOD (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8thf7TpZYs&search=tvod) - "I don't need a TV screen / I just stick the aerial / Into my skin". Synthpunk happened 27 years ago.

Most of John Foxx' stuff - Underpass (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LkneHBbRkk&search=john%20foxx%20underpass) especially. "World War Something, we were somebody's sons."

Girls Under Glass' Down in the Park - it's verging on a ballad, but there's some interesting imagery in it. This (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kKWPY6rj1Y&search=down%20in%20the%20park) is the original Gary Numan version, but Girls Under Glass did it *far* better.

Juno Reactor: Rotorblade. "It's daylight... So you might want to put your visors down."

Bloodhound Gang: Mope (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkmUuJs578o&search=bloodhound%20gang%20mope). Pac-Man does crack. Bonus points for sampling Falco.

Branvan 3000: Glee

Falco: Vienna Calling (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlSciGomV00&search=falco%20vienna) for use of DTMF. Pink Floyd would also work for that, though, but they used MF. Really surprised I could find the video for this song.

EMF's cover of Iggy Pop's Search and Destroy from the unexplained E.P. - "Look out honey, 'cos I'm using technology / Ain't got time to make no apologies."

Kompressor. Anything by Kompressor. Kompressor does not use a Macintosh; instead he uses a Tandy. Rock the Kompressor. Kompressor Does Not Dance (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HDMYm2mstA&search=kompressor%20does). Fan video, but failing to give a flying fuck.

AC/DC: Satellite Blues (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJGzhZmH67I&search=satellite%20blues)

Orgy: Fiction (Dreams in Digital) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RddSdfav3Wc&search=orgy%20fiction).

Informatik: Built for Pleasure - "My desire engineered / Pure design built for pleasure..."

Yello: Bostich (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VM0scMtT6RY&search=yello%20bostich). Not as good as the original 1981 version by a long shot, but it still applies. "Standing at the machine every day for all my life, I'm used to doing it and I need it, it's the only thing I want, is just to rush, push, cash."

Alphaville: Big In Japan (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZg_ojXgfPo&search=big%20in%20japan) and Forever Young (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGOgouhn8oU&search=forever%20young%20alphaville). The first is more atmospheric; the second is something that won't make sense unless you grew up in the Cold War.

For just a technological feel: most anything by Front Line Assembly (especially the 12" version of Provision or Dead Planet, Front 242, early Cabaret Voltaire, Die Krupps, Funker Vogt, or a whole bunch of other industrial acts I can't think of right now (must check iPod playlists later).

Oh, and there's always .mod music... Not necessarily chiptunes, but rather Atari & Amiga tracker stuff from years past...

[IcEbLAze]

Deltron 3030 - Virus [obvious reasons]

Binar Code - Anorexia [lyrics are only 'self-inflicted' but the music itself for some reason get me way into whatever im concentrating on]

Terrorfakt - any of their tracks, really. [very industrial/powernoise... hacker material IMO]

KFMDM:
Godlike [obvious]
Rip the system [obvious]
Glory[obvious]
A drug against war [the lyrics here are very fast paced, with the feeling to 'do something'. Lyrics include:"TELEVISION, RELIGION, SOCIAL DESTRUCTION, SEX AND DRUGS, VIOLENT SEDUCTION"]

Ministry - Jesus built my hotrod, WTV [Just like the KFMDM stuff above]

Just to name a few... At least, those are the ones that get me motivated ;)

[EDIT=added reasons]

[Nikita]

A few thoughts on songs:

Army of me-Bjork-
21st century digital boy- Bad Religion
Youre pretty when im drunk:evil: - Bloodhound Gang ( may be a stretch but funny for defcon )
Atom tan- The Clash
The guns of brixton- The Clash
Know your rights- The Clash
I faught the law- The Clash
Quite unusual- Frount242
Star fuckers:evil: - NIN
Sour times- Portishead
In the garage- Weezer
Secret Agent Man
And a few common favorites:

Bang Bang Bang (http://www.starterupsteve.com/swf/Group_X_video.html)
Everyone else has had more sex than me (www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/bunny.php)
She blocked me (www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/blockedme.php)
and of course NUMA NUMA (www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/numa.php), cause no one EVER gets tired of hearing that song :-)

[renderman]

and of course NUMA NUMA (www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/numa.php), cause no one EVER gets tired of hearing that song :-)

Well, I'm pretty sure that guy has....

[stringslayer]

Hackers and Crackers by Zearle (http://www.zearle.com/assets/music/tracks/zearle_class_war_RETAIL/07_zearle_hackers_and_crackers_class_war.mp3)

and several other tracks from zearle (http://www.zearle.com)

[nak]

Why not some dubmood (http://www.razor1911.com/dubmood/)?

Surely SOMEONE here has heard his music, maybe without knowing it. :)
(URL goes down quite a bit, all music is free for download, I could put up a compressed file of MP3s for a few people to download)

[shoegoo]

Bill Gates Must Die - John Vanderslice
I have the Password to your Shell Account - Barcelona
Fuck The MPAA - Futuristic Sex Robotz
End of File - MC Plus+

These should be pretty self explanatory, and I think most of them are available for free (legally).

[skroo]

Most of Miss Kittin & The Hacker's catalogue based on the name alone. Cutesy, but could work.

The Primitives: Crash (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE49S6i4QXE&search=primitives%20crash). The song may have nothing whatsoever to do with technology, but both the band's name and the song's title do :)

[AlxRogan]

MC Hawking (http://www.mchawking.com/). He got a little more political in the newer songs, but classics are the best.

[Virosa]

and of course NUMA NUMA (www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/numa.php), cause no one EVER gets tired of hearing that song :-)

The actual name of the song is Dragostea Din Tei (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragostea_Din_Tei) (Romanian for "Love under the Linden Tree"), just in case anyone has been in a techno-coma for the past 2 years.

I have a weird fascination with that song. I was in Romania in late 2003 when I first heard it (apparently it had just come out - the people in the Blue Angel nightclub in Sinaia went crazy for it). It totally blew my mind when I returned stateside and the song started popping up around here, too.

[Virosa]

Late entry:

Alice Cooper's "Cold Machines".

"Got your barcode always with me, got your thumbprint memorized. (...) You don't know my name, you don't know my number, you don't know my face at all"

[lil_freak]

Anything from ytcracker Web Site Here (www.ytcracker.com)

I really like the Surge song, even thou it's not on the market anymore.

[Twigman]

Maybe something from hacker related films...
Matrix theme
Swordfish soundtrack
Those kind of cds you should be able to pick up cheaply.

[Nikita]

The actual name of the song is Dragostea Din Tei (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragostea_Din_Tei) (Romanian for "Love under the Linden Tree"), just in case anyone has been in a techno-coma for the past 2 years.
Yeah, I know, I have it, I also have the video, I was rather obsessed with it myself for a while.

I thought of another one- Fuck the FCC by- i think eric idle

[TheCotMan]

Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie
"The Privacy Song"
(Direct comment: the government is watching you-> use disinformation and lie when you can.)
Not "Techno" but it is certainly about privacy.

Since this has expanded to include computer-stuff:
Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie:
"Every OS Sucks"
"Dot Com 1999"
"Keep your parents off the Internet"

[Deviant Ollam]

Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie:
"Every OS Sucks"
"Dot Com 1999"
"Keep your parents off the Internet"heh, i just discovered those video clips thanks to earlier links and spent some time reencoding them to XviD for inclusion in the filler material. since someone made an attempt to protect their .mov files i knew it was something i just had to do... i tend to have a policy of immediately putting something into an open format whenever i come across it on the 'net, simply out of frustration with people who think it's possible (or even appropriate) to try to "lock" content appreaing on the web. NEWS FLASH, EVERYONE: stuff on the web (be it code, images, video, etc) is, by its very nature, able to be copied and viewed by anyone at any time... stop trying to lock it down somehow. :biggrin:

[astcell]

My new fave: Anything by VnV Nation.

[Dark Tangent]

My new fave: Anything by VnV Nation.

So anything from VnV will fit my needs? Isn't that like saying anyting from Kraftwerk will do?

I was hoping for more specific song suggestions so I don't have to listen to three albums to find the one good song.

[astcell]

So anything from VnV will fit my needs? Isn't that like saying anyting from Kraftwerk will do?

I was hoping for more specific song suggestions so I don't have to listen to three albums to find the one good song.

Hmmm okay let me see what I can find. ANyone else out there know them? I only have a couple songs, the CDs are so rare.

[skroo]

Hmmm okay let me see what I can find. ANyone else out there know them? I only have a couple songs, the CDs are so rare.

Good choice. They're one of the ones I've filed under 'General Industrial / EBM' for the moment, but there are sources for their stuff ;)

On a side note, this thread's made me (once again, for the most recent time in a long time) analyse why I have the music that I do - and it looks like most of it falls under the categories of either 'abstract' or 'anti-control'. Something tells me that these are going to be common but by no means exclusive threads in the stuff that people suggest.

Redact: the first response (http://forum.defcon.org/showpost.php?p=78907&postcount=8) has been edited with links to video where available. I don't normally edit stuff this heavily, but really should have provided these links in the first place. Either way, they're here now, and pretty much describe the weirdness of my musical tastes.

[goathead]

Some old Public Enemy, perhaps mixes from Fear of a Black Planet.
Dope, American Apathy

[glitch]

here's a couple:
absurd minds- welcome to the cyberspace
mdfmk- control (fight the power and the power will fight back. your only as good as the system you hack)

[alklloyd]

Good choice. They're one of the ones I've filed under 'General Industrial / EBM' for the moment, but there are sources for their stuff ;)
Allegedly cjotfbsdi.jogp might be of interest. In erret sekrit kode.

Al

[Surreal]

Every year I try and put together some music to play during the breaks at BH that is hacker inspired, or has some sort of governmnet conspiracy feel to it.

M'kay, band Ohgr, album Sunnypsyop, at least tracks 1, 2 and 6 -- HiLo, maJik, DoG. It's Ogre, the singer from Skinny Puppy, only much less intense. Great music to hack to without making you contemplate ending it all.
Amazon has samples of the tracks and it's also purt cheap:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00009RXKM/sr=8-2/qid=1151261250/ref=pd_bbs_2/103-7208943-9565455?ie=UTF8

Also, Front Line Assembly, album Tactical Neural Implant (for that retro DC9 feel). Tracks 4, 5 Remorse and Biomechanic.

I 2nd the KMFDM suggestion. most of the UAIOE album. Also WWIII album and the tracks WWIII, Stars and Stripes, Bullets Bombs and Bigotry.
Album KMFDM, Nihil. Tracks... most of 'em: Terror, Search & Destroy, Revolution.

Maybe some Sex Pistols? The Great Rock'n'Roll Swindle. Specifically, Sid vicious did a great cover of "My Way", other good covers: Substitute, I'm not your steppin' stone.

Regards,

Surreal

[^Dash^]

Hmm... interesting
If you'd like i could share some of my projects with you... i play around with music production software alot. Here is a sample (http://rapidshare.de/files/24109839/gen_nou.mp3.html) of what i can, and like to do, and another piece of audio (http://rapidshare.de/files/24110859/proiect.mp3.html) material i kind of put together...

And if i can suggest:
Rob Swift - The Ablist
Non Phixion - Black Helicopters in the Sky

[mfreeck]

As someone else mentioned, anything by MC++ will be computer related.

Monzy - So Much Drama in the PHD "your mom circulates like a public key, servicing more requests than http, she keeps all her ports open like Windows ME."

NATAS -Cyberkill The funniest thing is he doesn't know much about computers, but it's all about how he's gonna hack your shit and fuck you up. Specifically fuck up your "CD Harddrive interface" and apparently he can also come right through your phoneline and shoot you.

Soul Coughing - Unmarked Helicopters, found on the "Song in the Key of X" Xfiles soundtrack "unmarked helicopters, hovering, they said it was a weather balloon...."

Down in the Park Several people have done this one, but it is also found on the "Songs in the key of X" album, done by the Foo Fighters. There's several songs on this album that may suit your needs.

I know there's also a punk girl band that does a song about Bill Gates, but I'll have to remember who it was.

[converge]

ok, some others that come to mind..

Black Sabbath - The Wizard
NIN - Kinda I Want To
System of a Down - Toxicity
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Get On Top
Janes Addiction - Ocean Size
Fantomas - Der Golem
Tool - Hooker with a Penis
The Presidents of the United States - Boll Weevil
Millencolin - Random I Am
6gig - Hit the Ground

Of all the Primus albums, I think Antipop and The Final Voyage of the Liquid Sky can be relatively interesting.


.. and for some reason Soundgarden - Jesus Christ Pose always reminds me of the countless sheep in the world. "and you swear to me, you don't want to be my slave; but you're staring at me like I need to be saved".. simply perfect for World-domination-coding-vibe.

[LosT]

Nick Cave - Red Right Hand


LosT

[nak]

(Artist, Title, Album)
In regards to VnV nation:
VnV Nation, Chrome, Matter and Form

And some more suggestions:
(ps. Dubmood (http://www.razor1911.com/dubmood/) site is up as of now, fun sample track (http://www.razor1911.com/dubmood/mp3/dubmood_-_chicago_chiphop_feat_nadom.mp3))
Gorillaz, Re-Hash, Gorillaz
Gorillaz, 19-2000 (soulchild remix), Greatest Hits
Boards of Canada,One Very Important Thought, Music Has the right to children
Massive Attack, Angel, Mezzanine
Rogue Element, Breaking Point, Rogue Rock (this maybe hard to find)
Squarepusher, My Red Hot Car, Go Plastic
Chemical Brothers, The Big Jump, Push the Button
Crystal Method, Busy Child, Vegas
The Faint, Paranoiattack, Wet From Birth
The Faint, Symptom Finger, Wet From Birth
Deathboy, Computer no 1, Music to crash cars to (http://deathboy.anti-goth.com/music%20to%20crash%20cars%20to/) (I also recommend decimate, but that maybe a little to :evil: for the masses :smile: )

I like music :)

[Twigman]

Fatboy slim - Slash dot dash dot slash dot com! :D

[IcEbLAze]

Also: Alter Der Ruine - Disconnect me

(mp3 is available for free on thier website: ruine-process.com)

[converge]

ok... it had to be mentioned. Rage Against the Machine - Freedom

..all wacky Las Angelos middle class freedom fighter politics aside.. it fits.

[Shinobi-]

I've had a few favorites floating around. I do like the GitS: SAC sound track, but when I'm not listening to sound tracks:

Röyksopp - "Poor Leno" The music video shows this little kid dressed in a bear suit running away from the government, so I figure it fits in there. The song is very mellow, great for coding imo. Royksopp won best video in MTV Europe, so they're pretty well known over there. Dont know if they've ever gotten more than MTV-2 in America.

Chemical Bros. - "Star Guitar" Some of the best coding music I own. Sit down in front of a computer, put this one on repeat, and I get sheet done.

Aphex Twin - "Come to Daddy" Great when you're about to root a box or crack open something fun. Aphex Twin's experimental is excellent for putting on and feeling like something either really bad or really strange is about to happen.

Download - "Microscopic" - What can I say, techno music made by one of the Skinny Puppy front men? From what I hear, they locked themselves in a recording studio, dropped a bunch of acid, and made this cd. The music speaks for itself.

Scissor Sisters - "Comfortably Numb" - End of the night, you've just seen 3 cross-dressing vegas divas, half the DC kids are too drunk to understand the bathroom is not the elevator, and you decide to bump this. You will get looks, and I cannot tell you if they are good or bad. Scissor Sisters were introduced to me through my brother, and all I can say is insane, but catchy.

Orbital - "Halcyon & On & On" - Ok, ok, ok, this was in that ridiculously stupid hollywood movie hackers, but it is one of the best chill-out songs I can think of. Its something like 15 minutes (at work, can't check the time), and is great for putting on, sitting back, and enjoying. Orbital is pretty well known, they have their major hits and misses. Orbital: Octane SUCKS, but Halcyon is good stuff.

a few tracks to throw in there, pretty random sheet but my taste is mostly relaxed music

[bascule]

Two words...

ELEKTRONIK... SUPERSONIK...

[DaKahuna]

I have DVD with about 1 GB of Techno stuff that was mixed by a co-worker. I am hoping to get his Okay and will loan the DVD out to any/all that want to rip any of it.

[Asbestos]

Humanoid must not escape -- Caustic Window (Aphex Twin)
That's a good song.

Perhaps some jams from an Aesop Rock album. Just pick any of them because they are all excellent.

Also, anything from "Melodies from Mars"; specifically mfm #5. ;-)

Nak: Go plastic! is an extremely awesome album. Exploding the human psychology is another well written song on that CD.

Perhaps if we go with a bit of Squarepusher we could add Datach'i?

[astcell]

Group: VnV Nation

CD: Empires

Track4: Saviour

[MitchMitchem]

Gnarls Barkley - Crazy

"who do you think you are? do you really think you're in control? I think you're crazy, just like me"

Hybrid - If I Survive

"so what if I survive and live to tell the truth?...i'll find a new life if i survive, i'll find my own place in time, if i survive, i'll learn to forget the crime, if i survive, but i swear you're going down if I survive"

Will Saul - Where Is It?

"where is my freedom? They told me it was here. Where is my freedom? All I can find is fear"

[renderman]

Just poking through my CD's I figure that Apocalyptica fits in vaguely with the hacker mentality. Covering Metallica w/ 4 chello's is one hell of a hack in my book.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000001EMW/sr=8-4/qid=1152480117/ref=pd_bbs_4/002-8963785-5801624?ie=UTF8

[skroo]

Some more '80s synthpop for y'all (and yeah, this song never had a video made for it): SSQ's Anonymous. Again, more of an atmospheric number than anything else. Can't find lyrics, so here's my loose transcription of them:

Masking identity
Lost in a memory
Of how it used to be
Anonymous
Sit in the dark of night
In the shadow of a streetlight
Uncover your role tonight
Anonymous

We are anonymous (Anonymous...)
We are anonymous (Anonymous...)
We are anonymous (Anonymous...)

(unknown)
I saw it on the telephone
Always with the (unknown)
Anonymous
What do they think of this
Can we survive the test
Living like all the rest
Anonymous

We are anonymous (Anonymous...)
We are anonymous (Anonymous...)
We are anonymous (Anonymous...)

They've got your number
You're undercover
Try to remember your name

Unmaksing identity
In search of a memory
Of how it used to be
Anonymous
Sit in the dark of night
Just a shadow in the moonlight
Is there no wrong or right
Anonymous

We are anonymous (Anonymous...)
We are anonymous (Anonymous...)
We are anonymous (Anonymous...)


[While it may have been cheesy, there was a certain elegance and subversiveness to '80s music that is sadly lacking in today's equivalent.]

[Jim_in_mesa]

How about:

Artist: Rockwell
Title: "Somebody's Watching Me"
Original Release Date: 1984
Label: Motown
ASIN: B0009YJXZA

also contained on:

CD title: Sounds of the Eighties 80's : 1984
ASIN: B000BNMAV8

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somebody's_Watching_Me

[skroo]

How about:

Artist: Rockwell
Title: "Somebody's Watching Me"

Or, by the same artist (and IIRC, on the same album), Obscene Phone Caller (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GL3TpJZXlc&search=Rockwell)...

[dYn4mic]

Everything so far is great, if we're looking for some funny techy rap..
I would add some more "real" music, but there looks to be enough already.
Maybe some DJs could use these songs for something.

MC++ is second to none.
These lyrics/song are genious:
http://www.monzy.com/intro/drama_lyrics.html (free mp3 too)

"My flow is so intense that I will overflow your buffer,
Corrupt your stack pointer makin' all your data suffer.
I've got saturated edges but your flow is sparser,
Real gangstas sip on Yacc; instead you generate a parser.
While you're busy poppin' stacks I'll pop a cap in your skull,
While you smoke your crack pipe I'm gonna pipe you to /dev/null."

"Your mom circulates like a public key,
Servicing more requests than HTTP.
She keeps all her ports open like Windows ME,
Oh, there's so much drama in the PhD."

enjoy.

[skroo]

I would add some more "real" music, but there looks to be enough already.

Just curious - what constitutes "real" music? I mean, I'm pretty fond of Wall of Voodoo's Spy World (http://www.lyricsdownload.com/wall-of-voodoo-spy-world-lyrics.html); does that qualify? Given the many suggestions here, which ones just don't fit into that category? Or is there some single narrow 'lol, hackerchoonz' slot it's all meant to fall into?

[hackajar]

What about anything 'God ate my Homework" did?

http://experts.about.com/e/g/go/God_Ate_My_Homework.htm

Tracks include:
"I saw Bill Gates on IRC"
"Secret Asian Man"
"Pirate this Song"
and my personal favorite
"She Was Probably A Guy"

All released under GPL!

[phreakmonkey]

Butthole Surfers - "Goofy's Concern" (off Independent Worm Saloon)
- "I don't give a f%*$ about the FBI,
I don't give a f%*$ about the CIA..." :)

[Shadowvex]

Every year I try and put together some music to play during the breaks at BH that is hacker inspired, or has some sort of governmnet conspiracy feel to it.

Anyway, you get the idea. Let the song ideas flood in!

CLOCK DVA - THE HACKER

"A digital murder
Programmed by mathematical terrorists
Outside of mortal bounds
Silently hacking
A binary plague
Serving information
This is the time of the hacker
This is the code of the hacker
This is the hacker
An algebra of fear

Within the language of machines
Uninfringed my human emotions
Within global systems
Silently moving
A digital maze
Cutting information
This is the way of the hacker
This is the extremity of the hacker
This is the hacker
Protect now or be erased forever

A binary virus
Unleashed by subversive programmers
Inside corporate systems
Silently eating
The endemic wave
Erasing information
This is the sign of the hacker
This is the genius of the hacker
This is the hacker
Learn now
Or be cut down forever"

Release in 1988 - several remixes also released. One of my all time favorite songs!

[MitchMitchem]

^ I love that song. Totally forgot about it until I saw this post.

[arashi_kage]

I have to agree with Nikita on "Shiny Disco Balls." One of my favorite songs is Different Gear - "A Little Bit Paranoid." A guy thinks someone is trying to get in contact with him through his girlfriends dream. Also:
System of a Down - Deer Dance + Prison Song
Public Enemy - Fight the Power + Party for Your Right to Fight
Varukers - Modem For Destruction
Naked Raygun - Wonder Beer

[guile]

Pearl Jam "World Wide Suicide"

I felt the earth on Monday
It moved beneath my feet
In the form of a morning paper
Laid out for me to see
I saw his face in a color picture
I recognized the name
Could not stop staring at the
Face I'd never see again

It's a shame to awaken, world aflame
What does it mean when the war has taken over?
It's the same every day in a hell man-made
What can be saved, and who will be left to hold her?

The whole world...
Will now burn...
Yeah, it's a world wide suicide

The whole world...
world over
Yeah, it's a world wide suicide

Medals on a wooden mantle
Next to a handsome face
That the president took for granted
Writing checks that others pay
And in all the madness
Thought becomes numb and naive
So much to talk about and
Nothing for them to say

It's the same everyday and the wave won't break
Tell you to pray, while the devil's on their shoulder
Laying claim to the take that soldiers save
Tell them to quit it, the truth's already out there

The whole world...
Will now burn...
Yeah, it's a world wide suicide

The whole world...
Will now burn...
Yeah, it's a world wide suicide

Looking in the eyes of the fallen
You got to know there is another, another, another, another, another...
Way

It's a shame to awaken, world aflame
What does it mean when the war has taken over?
It's the same everyday and the wave won't break
Tell you to pray, while the devil's on their shoulder

The whole world...
Will now burn...
Yeah, it's a world wide suicide....

[guile]

Here's a few more:

Cujo "Fat Ass Joint"
Massive Attack "Angel"
New Deal "Exciting new direction"
Rob D "Clubbed to death" (you'll know it from the Matrix)
Zero One "mem0ry"
Zero One "b0t"

[Fire_Walker]

AC/DC - ThunderStruck

[Deviant Ollam]

don't know if anyone already mentioned this... "Social Engineering" by Barcelona (http://deviating.net/stuff/barcelona-social_engineering.mp3) is pretty funny. it has a downtempo 80's synth-pop sound and is good for a lark. (was released online by the record label some time ago... not breaking laws by linking to it here)

[nous]

Every year I try and put together some music to play during the breaks at BH that is hacker inspired, or has some sort of governmnet conspiracy feel to it.
!

not sure if this works, or is outdated, but "i hate my frickin' isp" by todd rundgren (off _one long year_) is pretty funny.

also, this thread reminded me of the music on the defcon voice bridge back in, like, 1996... had sound bites of the first bush... "a new world order"... what was that? my man and i first spoke to each other on the voice bridge 'cause we were too paranoid to give our numbers to each other on irc.

[dYn4mic]

Just curious - what constitutes "real" music? I mean, I'm pretty fond of Wall of Voodoo's Spy World (http://www.lyricsdownload.com/wall-of-voodoo-spy-world-lyrics.html); does that qualify? Given the many suggestions here, which ones just don't fit into that category? Or is there some single narrow 'lol, hackerchoonz' slot it's all meant to fall into?

I meant "real" as in, not just some crappy hackerish rap with funny lyrics. I didn't add much music that I would concider really "good" becides just funny because there seemed to be lots already and didn't feel like being redundant, or reading everyones song/post.

[eecue]

YT Cracker is pretty funny nerd rap. I think you can download all of it for free from his website which you can find on google.

[Exist]

Check out some of the trance-psychedelic stuff like man with no name, GMS, and hallucinogen. If not, you can always go with the PI movie soundtrack.

[twincat]

Anything by Infected Mushroom.

better yet, find some "Darkstep" DNB, such as Spor, Unknown Error, and Evol Intent.

[eecue]

If you need DnB I have a crapton of it. Let me know.

[guile]

Rage Against The Machine "Evil Empire"

The whole album is good but "Year of the Boomerang", Vietnow" and "Down Rodeo" are really good.

Pink Floyd "The Wall" and "Dark Side of the Moon"
Take your pick of songs