A blend of measured electronic pulses, close-textured piano, and spacious ambient music mirrors Artemis’s ingenious lunar infrastructure and Jazz’s cramped, money-conscious daily life. The playlist gradually shifts from cool, methodical planning toward tense momentum and hard-won resolve, while staying gentle enough for focused reading.
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40 songsArtemis
Lindsey Stirling · Artemis
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Looped
Kiasmos · Kiasmos
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Woven Song
Ólafur Arnalds · some kind of peace
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Sun
Hania Rani · Esja
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Eden
Hania Rani · Esja
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Hammers
Nils Frahm · Spaces
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Steep Hills of Vicodin Tears
A Winged Victory for the Sullen · Erased Tapes Collection IV
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Minuet for a Cheap Piano Number Two
A Winged Victory for the Sullen · A Winged Victory for the Sullen
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Metamorphosis: Three
Philip Glass · Philip Glass: Solo Piano
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Thrown
Kiasmos · Kiasmos
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Held
Kiasmos · Kiasmos
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Oxygene, Pt. 7
Jean-Michel Jarre · Oxygene 7-13
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Équinoxe, Pt. 5
Jean-Michel Jarre · Équinoxe
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Ambre
Nils Frahm · Wintermusik
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My Friend the Forest
Nils Frahm · All Melody
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A Meaningful Moment Through a Meaning(less) Process
Stars Of The Lid · And Their Refinement of the Decline
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The Evil That Never Arrived
Stars Of The Lid · And Their Refinement of the Decline
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Abandon Window - Remaster 2023
Jon Hopkins · Immunity
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Small Memory
Jon Hopkins · Insides
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The Wider Sun
Jon Hopkins · Insides
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Coastal Brake
Tycho · Dive
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Define Dancing
Thomas Newman · WALL-E (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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Welcome to Lunar Industries
Clint Mansell · Moon (Original Score)
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Memories (Someone We'll Never Know)
Clint Mansell · Moon (Original Score)
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Kobresia
Biosphere · Substrata + Man with a Movie Camera
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Poa Alpina
Biosphere · Substrata + Man with a Movie Camera
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Familiar
Nils Frahm · Felt (Special Edition)
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Burst
Kiasmos · II
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Équinoxe, Pt. 1
Jean-Michel Jarre · Équinoxe
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Sol
Solar Fields · Movements
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The Nursery
Clint Mansell · Moon (Original Score)
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Magnetic Fields, Pt. 1
Jean-Michel Jarre · Les chants magnétiques / Magnetic Fields
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In The Morning Light
Yanni · In My Time
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Infra 5
Max Richter · Infra
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Roygbiv
Boards of Canada · Music Has The Right To Children
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Spacelab
Kraftwerk · 3-D Der Katalog (German Version)
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Metropolis
Kraftwerk · 3-D Der Katalog (German Version)
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Rubycon Part One
Tangerine Dream · Dream Sequence
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14:31
Global Communication · 76:14
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Phase 11 - Until We Meet The Sky
Solar Fields · Until We Meet The Sky
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Same book, another mood