So this is quite specific and I tried to fit the important stuff in the title, but here’s further elaboration (because it is definitely needed).
When I remember documentaries about earth or universe (specifically how it was formed, big bang, or how the moon came to be, etc) from the nineties and early 2000s, then they seemingly all used the same kind of background music. Something that I can only describe as Old school LoFi, smooth but kind of exciting electronic beats.
Does anyone know what I’m talking about, and what this music really was called? Do you maybe even have some examples?
Thanks!
Edit: New Age fits best, Vangelis and Jean-Michel Jarre are really close to the (probably unknown) artists of the songs that I have in mind. The other recommendations are also great.
Jean-Michel Jarre - Oxygene pt. 13, or Era without lyrics, is as close as I can get from what I remember.
Now I hope that I come across one of those documentaries online ^^
You might wanna give the entire Boards Of Canada catalog a listen
This is very close!
I guess a lot of documentaries used similar copyright free music, that thus sounded “simpler” (lower production quality).
This is what I was thinking, although I feel some of the samples more represent 70’s & 80’s
True they might evoke nostalgia for a more 70’s/80’s vibe. Oneohtrix Point Never is pretty great too. Whoever synth or vaporwave artists are sampling… [edit] edited out a response for op.
If this is music from Cosmos, then look up Vangelis.
Oooh of course, how could I forget them, yes Vangelis is the closest so far!
I’d say New Age - like Jean Michel Jarre and Vangelis
Yes, that’s the stuff :D
Thanks
I don’t think that it actually answers your question, but I would like to point out that the sun is a mass of incandescent gas: a gigantic nuclear furnace.
Not sure if it’s what you mean, but synthwave goes very well with anything space-related and fits the time period as well as what you described.
Yeah probably synthwave or close to it if there even was a name for it.
I’m still trying to find examples
Spacewave? It tends to be more slow paced and synth-heavy, and really evokes the feeling of giant planets and stars. For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RlxClUifEw&t=1800 (at the 30 minute mark, though the very first song works too)
Do you mean Trip Hop? A lot of Trip Hop music came out in the 90s. Popular artists were Massive Attack, Portishead, or Tricky among many others
Vaporwave? Smooth jazz? Elevator Music? Lounge Music?
Vaporware specifically is the latter 3 things chopped up together and was often found through random commercial projects like films, ads, etc.
I certainly get what you’re talking about; I’ve always liked that kind of music myself. But I’m not sure if there is a specific name for the style.
Can you find an example? Maybe this?
Are you talking about Earth: The Biography and How The Earth Changed History? Stuff like that?
Sadly I don’t remember specific titles. When I think of this music I picture badly rendered 3D landscape and violently erupting volcanoes 🤔
Could you be thinking of old educational videos that were played in schools?
Maybe like Bill Nye or Eyewitness?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtVJdPfm0F8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uwarhzl76D8
If you do find an example, it would help a lot to narrow it down
Could you be thinking of old educational videos that were played in schools?
Yeah probably, but I think I also watched stuff like that on TV.
Maybe like Bill Nye or Eyewitness?
Not the first one, the second one is closer but too “tropical”.
If you do find an example, it would help a lot to narrow it down
I keep searching
https://open.spotify.com/album/06h3SwA6eROm5JXyJc9UsG
This might be similar, though still somewhat tropical
You could also try ‘World music’
