My last contribution to Hellven, my beloved music group. This was actually inspired by a Terminator fan site I found which had all kinds of cool speculative technology and interesting / horrifying machine designs (we’re talking serious nightmare fuel), but the question was posed — after the singularity and whatever robot war wipes us all out, what would the final, pristine techno-earth be like?
My god, what a delicious sound. Reminds me very much of the soundtrack to Unreal, and it seems like this track would be right at home in that game. It has just the right feelings of tension and stress.
Hi Virt, I don’t know if you remember me, but I had approached you quite some time ago asking whether you were indeed the composer of “The Machine Planet”. It’s great to see you finally posting this on your website, and I will be sure to sample your other music too. Best wishes!!!
This song has a very nice tone to it. Distinctly technological, but pristine just as the post describes. I know this has nothing to do with the song, but would you mind posting a link to the site that inspired this? I like to read stuff like that.
Oh, silly virt… the robot wars won’t wipe *US* out. We will be the beautiful, rational, vastly socially, intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually advanced beings that WILL BE the products of our singularity. “Robots” will be just what the frightened, closed-minded luddist troglodytes of the world will call us. They’ll attack us, but they will not win. We will try to save as many of them as we can, but they will wipe most of -themselves- out in their vain, clumsy attempts to harm us..
The future cradle of human progress will be space. We will heal this world back to the untouched wilds it once was, and become its gentle caretakers… at least until the sun dies.
The world’s a better place now that this beautiful track is once again available for download.
This is an amazing piece: lush and symphonic in a pristinely synthetic way, enormous and wide-angle cinematic. I’ve loved it ever since I first heard it on Hellven’s Debut, and I’m glad plenty more people will have the opportunity to listen to it.
(No, seriously: if you haven’t listened to this yet, fix that RIGHT NOW. Scroll up and hit that download link. You will not be disappointed.)