I ended up making this playlist while trying to figure out what a fictional album “feels” like. For a story I’m writing. Obviously this isn’t meant to be literally representative. More like an associative-emotive vibe-print. My musician character is someone whose imaginative and expressive range equals (if not surpasses) Bowie and Uematsu.

The first track derives from Bowie’s 1.Outside demos. The Final Fantasy music consists mostly of covers from ocremix.com. Like the last playlist with ocremix stuff, the original basis for the song is in parenetheses. Only two tracks come directly from an Uematsu soundtrack (Final Fantasy IX). ‘Journey Through the Lifestream’ incorporates a number of musical quotes and ideas from Uematsu.

Concerning the ocremix songs- ‘Enchanted Espers’ dates back to the late oughtties. ‘Now is the Winter’ and ‘Courage, Failure, Rosebud’ are from the ocremix compilation album Final Fantasy VI: Balance and Ruin and ‘Deliverance of the Heart’ comes from the ocremix album Final Fantasy VII: Voices of the Lifestream.

I Am With Name/Hide Me/Creep Together- David Bowie (fan edit)

Now is the Winter (The Mines of Narshe)- Mustin

Strangers When We Meet (1.Outside version)- David Bowie

Another Nightmare (FFIX soundtrack)- Nobuo Uematsu

Breaking Glass- David Bowie

Courage, Failure, Rosebud (Under Martial Law)- DragonAvenger, OA

Loving the Alien (2003 live version from A Reality Tour)- David Bowie

Enchanted Espers (Another World of Beasts)- Protricity

Always Crashing in the Same Car- David Bowie

Not Alone (FFIX soundtrack)- Nobuo Uematsu

As the World Falls Down (Labyrinth soundtrack)- David Bowie

Moss Garden- David Bowie

Deliverance of the Heart (Heart of Anxiety)- pixietricks, zircon

Neukoln- David Bowie

Journey Through the Lifestream (VII Rebirth soundtrack)

“Heroes”- David Bowie