From the album Tokyo Run.

Two nice little late night ambient-ish tracks.

From the album City. Nice little Blade Runner-esque ambient track.

One of the weirdest and most amazing things you'll ever hear -- a synth arrangement of classical music, write weird and wonderful.

Creative commons, very smooth space ambient album.

I was wrong yesterday when I said Stellardrone was the only CC licensed Space Music in my collection. This is also pretty good stuff. :)

Pay what you want, creative commons licensed. Use for your open source space game ;)

YouTube version: https://youtu.be/NDJn0SQehb4

Bit of a stretch to call this space music. Glitch(dub)step with great future sounds. Best with decent bass.

Sort of synthwave-y, sort of cyberpunk.

I find a lot of music via internet radio (I know, I'm old school), so I thought I'd share a couple of stations you guys might like.

• Nightride.fm has a number of synthwave sub-genre stations, but Datawave is probably the most space-y. They do have a Spacesynth channel, but I find it veers too much into dance music (EDM? Eurodance? not sure the correct genre) for my taste; YMMV.

To listen to the following, you'll either need to use a separate music player, or find them on third-party radio sites.

• Soma FM has Synphaera (also an indie label on bandcamp), Space Station Soma, and Deep Space One (zero beat).

• Echoes of Blue Mars resurrects Blue Mars and Cryosleep (zero beat), two popular stations from the 2010s.

Dark Ambient Space Drone.

Youtube version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZV6oBz4VKs

From the album Imperium.

Spacey drone ambient

YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_krmnI2JN5x-qd_SCorvR6TQ_WPVQeAtds

A love song to Mass Effect, rendered angry robot dubstep

Progressive album oriented sci fi rock opera - best to listen to whole album :)

Youtube version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWPa9fQ-KH8

Deep ambient vaporwave house sci fi beats.

Dark, cyclical, droning and thrumming, ambient deep techno.

YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lsJ8ROHRB_tJx-L5hVAjzVT6PFCXxHOos

Very atmospheric ambient. Lovely.

YouTube version: https://youtu.be/oJM1il9zEhw?si=OhzHlmNX9dbqtFEi

Tannhauser Gate is one of my favourite tracks. Mellow, clean, smooth... And a 10/8 time signature (if I read it right). The whole album is nice though :)

YouTube (Tannhauser Gate): https://youtu.be/RzzN5-oihU8

Sequencers, synthesizers, and some classic dark techno sounds. Their albums always sounds like you should be in a planetarium seeing a simulation on stellar formations or something.

YouTube: https://youtu.be/2dE7w046lIA

Apple: https://music.apple.com/ca/album/halo-remastered/351941181

Review: https://www.starsend.org/HaloSiren.html

Halo is a work hovering at the eternal dusk of dreams and interstellar space. It is a musical experience that offers the sensation of passing through something; perhaps a beam from some far-off galaxy or a shower of cosmic debris. The album is intelligently designed and the wonderful transistions between movements draw the listener along easily. Relying on moods created through texture and atmosphere, Halo also offers a strong melodic content which is matched by extraordinary ever-evolving sequencer cycling. The tight analogue tones dance up and down the octave, in and out of synchronization with a throbbing bass rhythm and create seemingly endless permutations of pulse and flow. Above this torrent floats misty consonant choirs cut by reed thin themes traversing the scales.

Okay, here's a fun one. A little cyberpunky, a little traditional Japanese drumming, and a bunch of lofi synths.

YouTube: https://youtu.be/2G_o8oNd6U8

Apple: https://music.apple.com/ca/album/tokyo-restricted-area/1091737816

Review: https://metropolisjapan.com/review-yoshimi-tokyo-restricted-area/

The album begins with the washes, bloops, melodic synth stabs, and nightmarish heartbeats of “Plated City,” a track that signals the nightmarish tour-de-force that awaits. Wielding a palette of sounds that rise on a foundation of futuristic trap beats, Yoshimi seeks to present “an unknown story of these ominous memories of the land.”

YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kRNF9su8ebmvSQJGpGeqTQsB5ToGSDgvk&si=V0fWu0z06FZiqQ5d

Apple: https://music.apple.com/fr/album/hanging-masses/344713626f

Review: https://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/76445/Cell-Hanging-Masses/

Cell crafts ambient music that evokes this urban, sunny futuristic sound brimming with life. What's impressive is that he does so with such spares percussion and additional instrumentation. Even though he often takes from bands like Talk Talk in the electronic compositions, they really achieve their goal and emit sunshine with every tone.

YouTube (title track only): https://youtu.be/V_wcEr6pC8Y

This album really makes me feel like I'm in a bar in Mass Effect.

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFm6zudiCys

Review: https://www.starsend.org/Starseed.html

Music can convey a wide range of expression, indicating the musician's restraint, vigor, or willful abandon. On the anthology Starseed (66'23") the fundamental force here is rhythm, but with serious attention to a lavish textural ornamentation. Equating a sonic action with the measurement of time, the ten tracks, by a range of potent electronic artists, create a body-based music which extends to the far reaches of The Cosmos. Traveling through the miles of circuitry of the brain the works presented on Starseed will fulfil the audience's appetite for the exotic. Its most rapturous passages play out in the head in a hot-wired intensity - our cerebral states enhanced by a potent electronic sound. The aural appeal of Starseed never feels slight or superficial. Emotionally direct, it reaches substantial heights. The sensation of a deep throb of powerhouse bass is to feel lilting, airborne freedom. Drum loops stutter and stammer, while plush synthesized chords breath life into future movements. Under an atmosphere of space and exploration Starseed brings the listener into and out of a series of distinctive conditions. The pieces offered by Ascendant, Solaris and Transponder provide the greatest chill factor - while Chronos, Fourth Dimension, Germind, Martin Nonstatic, Motionfield, Omelic, and Subdream charge the hidden activity of our minds with dramatic climaxes, revelatory drops, and dreamy forward motion. With its beat machine energy, the music motors up - fully enjoys its peak, and eventually slows down for a smart gentle landing. Where do these amazing inventions come from? Answering this would take an explanation of the fertile inventive mind. The truth of this substantial journey is to show us, while the world and its heavens are immense, that we are bigger on the inside - that within our hearts and minds there is more... more substance, and more to be discovered.

• Chuck van Zyl/STAR'S END 25 August 2016