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Brain Damage Playlist
A mystery like Brain Damage thrives on fractured memory, slow revelations, and tense quiet—so this playlist leans into suspenseful, room-filling textures: reverb-laced strings, minimal piano, and modern instrumental soundscapes. The two vocal tracks act like emotional “clues,” echoing fear, disorientation, and the need to reconstruct what happened.
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Track List
20 songs
1
Requiem in D Minor, K. 626: Sequence: VI. Lacrimosa dies illa
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart · Mozart: Requiem / Exultate, Jubilate / Laudate Dominum
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Bachianas brasileiras No. 5: Aria (Cantilena)
Heitor Villa-Lobos · Odyssey (Bonus Track Version)
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3
Gymnopédie No. 1
Erik Satie · Erik Satie & Friends
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4
Claire de Lune
Claude Debussy · Debussy: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun - Scottish March - Claire de Lune - La Mer
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5
Adagio for Strings
Samuel Barber · Classic
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6
Spiegel im spiegel
Arvo Pärt · Arvo Pärt: Portrait
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7
The Shape Of Memory
Max Cooper · Feeling Is Structure
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8
An Ending, A Beginning
Dustin O'Halloran · Other Lights
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9
Weightless - 253 Edit
Marconi Union · Weightless (253 Edit)
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10
The Nights
Avicii · Avicii Forever
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Late
Nils Frahm · Old Friends New Friends
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Intermezzo In A Major, Op. 118, No. 2
Johannes Brahms · Brahms Intermezzi
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13
Carmen Suite No. 1: Habanera
Georges Bizet · Nesun Dorma - Vesti la guiba and Other Opera Blockbusters
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14
The Lark Ascending
Ralph Vaughan Williams · Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending
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15
Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op. 47: II. Adagio di molto
Jean Sibelius · Sibelius: Violin Concerto Op. 47; Serenades; Humoresque
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Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95 "From the New World": II. Largo
Antonín Dvořák · Dvořák: Symphony No. 9, From the New World
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Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 74, "Pathétique": II. Allegro con grazia
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky · Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6, "Pathétique"
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18
The Planets, Op. 32: II. Venus, the Bringer of Peace
Gustav Holst · Holst: The Planets
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Meditation from Thais
Jules Massenet · Amazonia
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