What does this do ?

It adds ambient music tracks for when you are looking at a space platform !

What if i dont have the space age expansion ?

Then the tracks plays on Nauvis alongside the other tracks !

And that's it ?

No actually this mod can also be used like a music album for my other mod too : https://mods.factorio.com/mod/PI-house-made-music

If both are active then the other mod add the music from this one as instrument for the programmable speakers too for if you want to make a juke box with speakers, the duration in tick is also indicated !

Why ?

This way you can select your favourite "album" for each game, and when i publish a new song or a new album or try to make the music player better, you don't have to redownload everything.

No why this album ?

If you like Chill- House or Nu-disco ! It's probably the one where the genre will be the more consistent in the album, it's light relaxing and a bit uplifting, quite repetive, not too distracting, electronic but not aggressively and using also more organic sonorities, if you never heard of Chill-house or Nu-disco before you should totally check it. It's similar to the several music "Quietness" and "Calm Groove" from previous mods :) i will put them there at some point !

Did you use AI ?

Yes, it's written in the description of each song when it's the case, i think it's better to be open about it, and i try to add a little explanation on the purpose.

Latest track :

• 15-Slowly Cruising to Funkytown ( 4 min 48 sec) [Nauvis] [120 BPM]

  
  
  
  Genre : Chill-House Nu-disco, funky, and bit of "organic house".
  Inspiration : Song "c'est du pipeau" from another mod, mixed with this genre, reading online some of my favourite "deep-house" labelled as "classic-house" and feeling older somehow.
  Comment : There is a preview for this one, it is the "least consistent" with the album, the one that mixes the more from warmer genre, while keeping the general mood appropriate for space but it is to be played on Nauvis to tease a little and not create too brutal ambiance switch when first going to space, similar to song 8. It was made mostly from AI and remastered, corrected a little. It's quiet, and relaxed "for Nauvis". And is the first song added after the rework /addition of legacy songs, after realizing that combined in a single instead of 3 mods, it may feel not "consistent" but "too similar", "always the same song". In an attempt at widening a bit the spectrum.

List of songs :

• 1-I-Made-Breakfast ( 3 min 46 sec) [Space]

  Genre : Chill-House Nu-disco
  Inspiration : Music from french lounge bar, or commercials for land development project.
  Comment : This is a light and relaxing song. "Chill" obviously. Mostly AI music, with human remaster. Was selected amongst many for the particular vibes and quality (poorly illustrated by the video that needed to fit a 10MB size limit ). Sometimes the engineer wakes up in the mood to do the breakfast for someone else, but then realizes the lonelyness of the situation. It's like a temporary set back. Or like when your cat pee on your shoes because you were about to leave and you have to clean it up before, but you still gonna leave afterward, and enjoy your life anyway. Or maybe when you realize you forgot a belt and your factory on Nauvis didn't produce anything when you thought it was and you fix it, and you're wondering what kind of thing you could do now. Or if you are on a space platform that run out of fuel and you need to fix it to continue your journey. It says it's ok, there's a good news waiting for you somewhere :)

• 2-Delicate-Audio-Massage ( 3 min 24 sec) [Space]

  Genre : Chill-House Nu-disco and a bit of funky
  Inspiration : YSE saint laur'ant
  Comment : This is also a light and relaxing song. Similar than previous it was made using AIs and edited a bit afterward and also selected for the particular vibes and quality. I found a little more positive than previous song, due to the funky accents and brighter melody, it sounds like someone doing a massage and asking if everything's ok to me. And everything is ok, but it still felt necessary to ask, so maybe there's a shadow of a doubt coming from a high desire to please that still exist somewhere and getting currently dissipated :) A bit like when you know your factory is working as intended, but you still look at it on the map often time to make sure, or maybe you don't fully trust, maybe you just like to see it work , a bit of both. That's a song for space platform though, try to sync the start of a ship travel with the start of a song on speaker, that's a feel good one :)

• 3-mmmWHAT ( 3 min 19 sec) [Space]

  Genre : Chill-House Nu-disco and a bit of funky
  Inspiration : same as the others and cat noises too
  Comment : This is again a light song, but it's a bit more uplifting than the first 2, made using similar workflow as i've quit some non-working experiment and went back to more familiar grounds, it was a pretty easy choice because i found the little noises that sound almost like lyrics funny and i like the bass that doesn't really know when to stop in the background. Both were enhanced in mastering after stem separation. It's also a few cents lower and slower than the original version from AI, i found it helped keep the tone neutral and not too joyful, there's an introspective feels i get from the thoughtful bass that's being brighten up by the lead instrument that carry the melody, and a cat in the background wondering what's going on in that crazy mind, with the occasionnal maoow maooww :)

• 4-No-Sucker ( 3 min 58 sec) [Space]

  Genre : Chill-House Nu-disco and a bit of deep house
  Inspiration : Suckers
  Comment : This is as the others a light song, maybe a bit more hypnotic and deep-house than the others, made in line with the others using AI and similar remastering for consistency, with special attention given to a little cutoff on the low frequencies around and under 40 Hz, but there are still very present :) I feel those are the more impactful in the feeling that the song takes you to another place, it sets the environment where the other things happens. For this song it's like a place where suckers aren't allowed, to get in and bring their stuff around. It's nice and clean, no worries :) If you see someone joining your multiplayer game, importing some random blueprint he found on the internet and asking for donations, you can kick the person and put this music, like wolololoo this is done see yaaa suckerrs x) ( or if you are the sucker you can also listen to the music, instead of getting buthurt ). why not ? :)

• 5-Eastward-Syncopation ( 4 min 10 sec) [Space]

  Genre : Chill-House Nu-disco, bits of deep house
  Inspiration : Video games like civilization that contain traditionnal music from different places.
  Comment : This a light song too, maybe a bit more boom boom that the others, i reworked this one more than the others but it was also made from AI generation. Special attention was given to the instrument making the F3 notes at 350 Hz in the background, first isolated from the fast escalation played with the same instrument when the stem were extracted using filters to only keep frequencies around 350 Hz, then re-added a bit everywhere in the song, because it fitted well a bit everywhere, or maybe i just like the contrast, sometimes with a slight time offset so as to make it sound more interesting, like a delay, it's not quite as low frequencies as those i use for this purpose usually, and i think i discovered a new thing i like, i hope you like it too. It's supposed to sound like a travel in unknown fantastic places, even more pronounced around minute 3, with a sequence reminiscent of chinese music, from someone who doesn't know chinese music, more like kung fu panda inspired =)

• 6-I-miss-you-out-there ( 5 min 07 sec) [Vulcanus]

  
  Genre : Chill-House Nu-disco, a little funky, a little minimal, quite progressive.
  Inspiration : The previous song :)
  Comment : This is a calm song, maybe not as light or joyful as the others, more oriented toward the inner feelings, it's the first song that isn't made to be played in space, because i think it fits better Vulcanus, it will be played in Nauvis without space age anyway. It was also made using AI but i unlike the previous this one was made from pieces of sound i gave them because i wanted to have something more similar to what i liked in previous song. "Tidi tu tidi tuu tuuu" :) in the background that's made for the brain to follow but if you need to sing something it should be the "papaaa la paaaa" that serve for the resolve, otherwise it should be repetitive enough to let the mind wander :) Here is low quality version of it : ( only 56 kbs audio , sound much better in game ! ) :

• 7-Talk-about-it ( 4 min 04 sec) [Space]

  Genre : Chill-House Nu-disco, with a slight hip hop vibes for the beats.
  Inspiration : People that have problems in their life
  Comment : This is a calm and relaxing song. Made with AI's, influenced so that the instrument will sound almost like they are talking. And they say that you need to talk about it, don't keep it for yourself, if you have a problem sometimes it can grow in your head and turn you mad, so this song is there as a reminder, you can also just isolate yourself and play video games all the time, i won't judge you on that, i know what it is :) But really sometimes, you just need to talk about it. If you don't have any problem yourself you can listen to the song of course, maybe open up your mind to the others that surround you, and if you notice someone that is unusually silent, or absent, maybe you can send the song, or just inquiry if they are well if they want to talk about "something" that you think is bothering them. Unless you are a very annoying person,they would appreciate you talk with them, otherwise shut the fuck up and send the song ! it's ok there's no copyright on it. That can also work if one of your teamate is feeling down hopefully :)

• 8-But i'll be there for you ( 4 min 46 sec) [Nauvis] [110 BPM]

Genre : Chill-House Nu-disco, a bit funky, and classic house, progressive and relaxing.
Inspiration : Garyj
Comment : This is for sunday morning, in winter, start with a warm bath, and about to eat some sweets all day, thinking about next summer. It was made using AIs and reworked a little. Spend more time figuring out how to make a clip with the waveform AND some fancy fx that doesn't look too broken when super compressed, and having the sound quality preserved. Mission accomplished for the later, the preview is the full sound at 256kps , same as contained in mod, however in game, it may sound a little less because it will be played at 16bit and not 32bit per sample for now ( maybe with 2.1 ? ). The title comes from the melody highlight at 2:55. it repeats several times and in between them you have time to think about someone else. It's a song that goes into Nauvis and not Space like most of the other song from this album, because i felt it was missing more calm songs in Nauvis when not using the "crazy mode" in a new game where you delay your first platform, but that may change later.

Legacy songs from my other DJ mods

• 09-Calm-Groove-1 ( around 5 minutes cut into 29 samples, 417 ticks duration per sample )

  Genre : Downtempo / Nu-Disco
  Inspiration : YSE Saint Laur'ant and Youtube channel of Gazzz696
  Comment : I had always like those song, peaceful relaxing, dreamy, not so much party song, but more fitting to what could be played by a DJ that would want to play music in the factorio world for the engineers, imo. To bring some positivity. But slower. It should be very easy to play with combinators, as i have learned some tricks by now, and it shouldn't be noticeable when there is a different sequence. This song was made originally with the help of SUNO and slowed and remastered with stem separated as an experiment.
  Difficulty: VERY EASY

• 10-Calm-Groove-2 ( around 4 minutes cut into 59 samples, 240 ticks duration per sample )

  Genre : Downtempo / Nu-Disco
  Inspiration : YSE Saint Laur'ant and Youtube channel of Gazzz696
  Comment : Very similar to previous song, but i attempted a more in depth remaster after following tutorial video on the Serum synthethizer used in audacity and FL studio to try and play with the high frequency and increase them while i usually dislike them in an attempt at making the song a bit more 'dreamy' and 'etheral'. It should be 'very easy' to play it with combinators because the duration of the samples are the same, but the high frequency noise / delay / reverb may sound a little off, it felt like a necessary tradeoff to improve the song.
  Difficulty: VERY EASY

Legacy songs from my other interlude mods

• 11-Quietness-1 ( 4 min : 09 sec ) [Space]

  Genre : Jazzy-Chillhouse
  Inspiration : Places where strangers can play piano and others would clap and it is ok to do so. Video youtube explaning me the context when it was not ok to do so.
  Comment : This a relaxing, peaceful song, maybe a bit long for an interlude on paper, but that is not considering the 2 different voices expressing themselves who need some time, the "piano" and the "synth/bass", so you can relax AND keep working. One day i was watching musicians and one gave me a maracas saying i could use it to play with them. I was a kid, but i still remember because it was the first time i used a musical instrument. I like the idea that one can do more than just listening to the music, like singing or clapping or interacting. I think with this music other player can build along the fingerclap, i found it fun. Much of it is AI samples, with some sounds added made into a song.

• 12-Quietness-2 ( 4 min : 04 sec ) [Space]

  Genre : Nu-Disco
  Inspiration : ???
  Comment : This is a relaxing song. It was made using AI trying to emulate the previous one's atmosphere with different prompts for genre to generate many songs and select only those whose audio quality and vibes felt appropriate. It was very slightly edited for intro and outro. The beginning is supposed to match the map view when looking at a platform, and then it start "moving" with the melody and the instrument i imagine the sound of the thruster going on and off :). Hopefully it helps focus during construction and make every travel feel like a breathe.

• 13-Quietness-3 ( 3 min : 59 sec ) [Space]

  Genre : Jazzy-Chillhouse / Nu-Disco
  Inspiration
  Comment : This is a peaceful happy song, with similar genre as the other Quietness, also generated using AI, also choosen for its atmosphere and audio quality, with slight touches for intro and outro. The more i play the more i feel space can be this festive and "light" "soft" "aerial" "joyful" ambiance. The kick a little enhanced made me think of song people listen in cars, like when a ship is cruising. It is also supposed to be the more joyful of the 3 Quietness with the idea that when the ship is finally moving, it's time to celebrate ! This song works better for when you have a good ship, so make a good one !

• 14-Quietness-4 ( 2 min : 44 sec ) [Space]

  Genre : Nu-Disco
  Inspiration
  Comment : This is a peaceful relaxed song, with very similar genre as the other Quietness, also generated using AI ;) , also choosen for its atmosphere and audio quality that i found perfectly in line with the others, albeit a little less joyful, more "mindful" , with slight touches of personnal editing for a crunchy destroyed noisy intro that quickly vanishes. I found it appeasing , more like a "meh this is a temporary setback, let's think of what's to come", hopefully that comes to add some depth in the palette of emotion that are represented in the interludes, it's probably the least upfliting of the mod now that it's only "interlude", it's for when you like your spaceship, but you're taking it for the 12th trip back to Nauvis for something you've forgotten, and you start to mmm mmm mmm mmm , at least it's not broken, but when do we arrive ? at least it's not broken keep calm x). tu du tuu du tu here is an ammo for you little turret, here is another one for you, let's go :)