Music in Deshret is highly factionalized and local, as described on the Life in Deshret page. Sol’s provided some additional information on specific inspirations you can use to get the feel:
ORGANIZATIONS/PLACES
Suburba
- Genres: Industrial techno, EBM, hard techno, gabber, trap metal, industrial hip hop.
- Example Artists: Front 242, The Prodigy, Death Grips, Nine Inch Nails.
The Coterie
- Genres: Dark cabaret/cabaret punk, electro-swing, Gothic rock, maybe some Balkan brass.
- Example Artists: Tiger Lillies, Dresden Dolls, Tom Waits.
Symphony
- Genres: Hyperpop, dark synthpop, synthwave, alternative R&B, and hiphop.
- Example Artists: Grimes, Poppy, Carpenter Brut, Perturbator, HEALTH, FKA twigs.
Sepulchre
- Genres: Gregorian chants, Byzantine chants, Orthodox music, neoclassical darkwave, ritual ambient, drone music, funeral doom.
- Example Artists: Dead Can Dance, Warhammer 40k music, just religious chants in general.
GREAT HOUSES
House Vesalius
- Genres: Renaissance polyphony, sacred minimalism, avant-garde choral music, and chamber opera.
- Example Artists: Tallis Scholars, Hilliard Ensemble, Theatre of Voices, Roomful of Teeth, Caroline Shaw.
House Qamarat
- Genres: Persian radif, Ottoman makam, santur.
- Example Artists: Dastan Ensemble, Shams Ensemble, Kudsi Erguner Ensemble, Ensemble Constantinople, Taksim Trio, Parviz Meshkatian.
House Rook
- Genres: Martial industrial, military cadence, heavy folk with taiko-style percussion.
- Example Artists: Laibach, Test Dept, Kodo, The HU, Corvus Corax, We All Lift Together from Warframe
House Morcant
- Genres: Funeral doom, requiem, dark ambient, traditional keening, slow neoclassical.
- Example Artists: Bell Witch, Mournful Congregation, Lustmord, Dead Can Dance, Atrium Carceri, Diamanda Galás
House Drepane
- Genres: Grand opera and hyperpop (similar to Symphony).
- Example Artists: La Scala Chorus and Orchestra, Metropolitan Opera, La Fura dels Baus, SOPHIE, Arca, PC Music, Charli xcx, FKA twigs, Dorian Electra.
House Valcora
- Genres: Desert blues, dark folk, sea shanties, post rock, motorik.
- Example Artists: Tinariwen, Mdou Moctar, Songhoy Blues, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, NEU!, Earth, Sigur Ros.
House Varga
- Genres: Neofolk, Balkan folk, industrial punk.
- Example Artists: Wardruna, Heilung, Forndom, Fanfare Ciocărlia, Taraf de Haïdouks, Kultur Shock, Gogol Bordello.
House Amari
- Genres: Mediterranean and Levantine folk music, Andalusian, flamenco.
- Example Artists: Radio Tarifa, L’Ham de Foc, Le Trio Joubran, Ojos de Brujo, Ketama, 47Soul, Savina Yannatou and Primavera en Salonico, Gipsy Kings.
House Kadesh
- Genres: Byzantine and Syriac chant, Sufi music, Gregorian, flagellant.
- Example Artists: Cappella Romana, Ensemble Organum, Divna Ljubojević and Melodi, The Sabri Brothers, Rizwan-Muazzam Qawwali, Phurpa, Diamanda Galás, Lingua Ignot