u/waxxingmoon

hello! i make techno myself, but very rarely, and strangely I don't really listen to a lot of it, nowadays i mostly listen to ambient music or jungle. i wanna get back into the 4x4 sound for inspiration though. i don't like the dark, ketamine-heavy bleepy techno where you get an mdd snake off-key sequence and 15 different fx sounds hitting every 8 bars that's popular now (no shade to anyone enjoying it, i get that it works great in the club, just not my thing), and i got a collection of tracks that i like which give a very particular vibe to me. it's very... pretty (i guess thats the best word i have here) bells or synths or very lush pads along with interesting sounding melodies and airy drums, without going into straight-up afterlife melodic techno territory, sometimes reese bass is in there as well. airy and light dub techno works great for me too.

can you recommend anything similar to these tracks? label or mix suggestions would be nice too, bonus points if its 140+ bpm
thanks in advance! and sorry for bad english, it's not my first language.

[DJ Nobu - Flares](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmcVOZ4xawU&list=RDxmcVOZ4xawU&start\_radio=1)

[ADILR - Cerulean Bells](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8x24ogrzKEk&list=RD8x24ogrzKEk&start\_radio=1)

[Malaurora - Sky Pillar](https://malaurora.bandcamp.com/track/sky-pillar)

[Skee Mask - Clear Sky 909](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyeloBZIC28&list=RDLyeloBZIC28&start\_radio=1)

[ÆKO - Axial](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGqHF8tcYzE&list=RDhGqHF8tcYzE&start\_radio=1)

[Bite Mark - 1996](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rJpUTzubL4&list=RD4rJpUTzubL4&start\_radio=1) (my own jungle inspired track from 2024)

[Shed - Taking You Home](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=\_IaR6wjSTi4&list=RD\_IaR6wjSTi4&start\_radio=1)

[Djrum - Showreel Pt. 3](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i\_3EaRANRZs&list=RDi\_3EaRANRZs&start\_radio=1)

[Ilya Gurin-Babayeu - Elsewhere Inward (Ryan James Ford Remix)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bA5\_oCc2lgQ&list=RDbA5\_oCc2lgQ&start\_radio=1)

[Hasvat Informant, Willem - Leilani](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0l1kLPm6R60&list=RD0l1kLPm6R60&start\_radio=1)

[DJ OSX - Ambience 2000](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGyCO1-0orQ&list=RDBGyCO1-0orQ&start\_radio=1)

[LWS - Many Request](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWbzHk0POZs&list=RDFWbzHk0POZs&start\_radio=1)

Hey! I played vanilla morrowind A LOT like 10-15 years back, but only now started getting into tamriel rebuilt after i found out i can play it on my mac. Before poison song release i basically played a city boy speechcraft/sneak character with 80 starting personality only doing the East Empire Company and thieves guild quests in Old Ebonheart without exploring around at all (only went to the Narsis stock market a couple times), got very rich by stealing stuff and stock trading at like level 13 after 15 hours of playing and retired my guy Sweetus Talkus in his EEC office. It was amazing.

Now i want to have a proper long playthrough as a wandering swashbuckler/duelist khajiit with high speed and agility, but not really sneaky, like maybe a western movie type gunslinger, only with a sword. Fighting bandits, slavers and corrupt sheriffs, you know the type. He is gonna be based on my Pathfinder ttrpg character who is a swashbuckler chaotic good cat with high dex and charisma, started as a reformed pirate and acquired a noble title during the course of the campaign (his heroforge mini included).

I don't have a full build in mind yet, so can you please recommend some quests/factions/places to visit and some cool gear suitable to this class fantasy without breaking RP (no stealing from ebon tower or hlaalu vaults for example, occasional stealing is fine, like from slaver plantations)? Unfortunately i don't have a lot of time to just randomly explore the huge mainland in hopes of finding fitting gear and quests. By fitting i mean i don't really want to start a quest and find out an hour later that i need to go clear a dreugh hive (this stuff will be left for my argonian pearl diver wizard/pikeman). Just some general directions of where to look would be enough. I also have Project Cyrodiil and Skyrim Home of the Nords.

Any build suggestions are welcome as well, but i will be playing with a mod that removes power leveling so no real need for minmaxing there.

Thanks in advance, this here is an amazing community!