Vernian Process - 4 Albums
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Genre: Darkwave
Vernian Process is a musical collective led by Joshua Pfeiffer, who apparently seems to be so interested in steampunk that he made music for it. The results are amazing; brooding, haunting steampunk darkwave music.
There are four albums available for free download from the official website; they’ve been free to download since May 2007. The first one, The Symphonic Collection, is simply covers of songs in a symphonic style, mainly classical music, but there are some other songs too. Catalysts also contains cover songs, this time of popular songs associated with synthpop, industrial and gothic music.
The place where Pfeiffer really shines however is in the albums Discovery and The Forgotten Age. These are albums made up of original music, and this I believe is true steampunk music. It is defined by its percussion, which sounds mechanical and rhythmic like a factory hard at work. The instrumental songs are best.
Tracks of note include Benedictus and The Elegance of Espionage from The Forgotten Age, and Ironworks from Discovery. These should be starting points to the rest of his tracks. The albums may be downloaded by following the links below.