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I am doing a Youtube playlist of transhumanist songs (with a particular quote from each song). Since there's not a lot of these, I also put songs that are only somewhat transhumanist (frankly I'm shocked at the ratio of transhumanist songs to love songs). So do you have suggestions for songs that are somewhat related to transhumanism (and/or rationality) (not necessarily in English) please?
For example, here are the ones that I have put in the playlist so far:
Turn It Around by Tim McMorris
Another one is Hiro by Soprano: a song about someone who's saying what he would do if he could travel back in time. (it’s in French but with English subtitles) (it's inspired from the TV show Heroes which I also recommend).
The classic Imagine by John Lennon
The Future Soon by Jonathan Coulton
One that I saw recommended on LW: The Singularity by Dr. Steel (it's my favorite!)
Another that I saw on LW: Singularity by The Lisps
Singularity by Steve Aoki & Angger Dimas ft. My Name is Kay
I am the very model of a singularitarian
Another World by Doug Bard
Transhuman by Neurotech
Transhuman by Amaranthe
E.T. by Katy Perry ft. Kanye West
Space Girl by Charmax
In this writup of the 2013 Boston winter solstice celebration, there is a list of songs sung there. I would suggest this as a primary resource for populating your list.
I've been writing up a pile of Wikipedia articles related to the Neue Deutsche Welle electronic band Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft - so far I've done Robert Görl, Gabi Delgado-López and Chrislo Haas - so now I need to play the records again before writing those up. Surprising just how much you can achieve with only a drum machine, a synthetic bassline and a voice.
East Asian metal.
Esthete Sinistre - The best metal band I've heard -- it's too bad they've only ever recorded one track.
Ego Fall - folk metal from Inner Mongolia. (see also)
Kanashimi - Japanese depressive black metal. With a piano.
Pyha - Korean black metal. Pyha is mostly known for The Haunted House, which the guy apparently recorded when he was 14, but he has another album, Majbulnol-i, which deserves at least as much recognition, and which I'd call 'blues metal' if that didn't sound ridiculous.
Tengger Cavalry - Mongolian folk metal.
The Nine Treasures - More Mongolian folk metal.
There's also Altan Urag, a Mongolian folk rock band, not to be confused with the Irish folk band Altan. (The word 'altan' means 'stream' in Irish Gaelic and 'golden' in Mongolian.)
Touhou:
Doujin:
Vocaloid:
Misc: