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This playlist mirrors Dune’s vast desert world and its shifting emotional stakes: betrayal and collapse, the slow ignition of prophecy, and Paul’s growing, unsettling power. Instrumentals lean into cinematic scale and drifting, sand-borne tension, while the vocal tracks nod to yearning, fate, and the human cost of control over “the spice.”
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20 songs
1
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43: Var. XVIII. Andante cantabile a tempo vivace
Sergei Rachmaninoff · Romantic Classical Music
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Eine kleine Nachtmusik, K. 525: I. Allegro
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart · Mozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik, K. 525; Symphony No. 32 (Overture), K. 318; Serenade K. 320 "Posthorn Serenade"
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Pictures at an Exhibition (Orch. Ravel): Promenade I
Modest Mussorgsky · Mussorgsky: Pictures At An Exhibition
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Carmen Suite No. 1 (Arr. E. Guiraud): III. Intermezzo
Georges Bizet · Bizet: Carmen & L'arlésienne Suites
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Scheherazade, Op. 35: III. The Young Prince and the Young Princess
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov · Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade - Glazunov: Stenka Razin
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Hysteria
Muse · Absolution
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Follow You
Imagine Dragons · Mercury - Acts 1 & 2
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The Only Exception
Paramore · Brand New Eyes
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I'm Still Standing
Elton John · Too Low For Zero
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My Universe
Coldplay · Music Of The Spheres
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The Fear
Lily Allen · It's Not Me, It's You
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Do I Wanna Know?
Arctic Monkeys · AM
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There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
The Smiths · Die besten 80er Hits
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Awake
Tycho · Awake
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Donkey Rhubarb
Aphex Twin · Donkey Rhubarb
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An Eagle In Your Mind
Boards of Canada · Music Has The Right To Children
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Weightless
Marconi Union · The Ambient Zone Just Music Cafe Vol 4
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Immunity - Remaster 2023
Jon Hopkins · Immunity
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The Greatest
Sia · This Is Acting (Deluxe Version)
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Run Boy Run
Woodkid · The Golden Age
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