Uploaded March 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Enter a dystopian dieselpunk world, where hard, back-breaking work in huge factories achieves greatness and progress, huge machines roam the streets and skies, authoritarian systems deploy huge military forces, secret agencies infiltrate to steal top-secret information, and riots are a daily occurrence.

In this music, I introduce this dark, noir, dystopian world, and try to create my own version of what dieselpunk might sound like. Unlike my Steampunk music, the vibe of this music is much darker and more intense, with more dissonant and chaotic elements, low brass representing all the metal of the weapons and the cities. This idea is mainly inspired by the great masterpiece Metropolis by Fritz Lang and Batman from the 90s.

The art of this video combines the wonderful art of human artists and images generated with artificial intelligence, which completes the points that I wanted to represent in this video. Here I got images and characters made with AI and then animated them in After Effects and created some sequences to create a cinematic feel.

Artistically, human art is interspersed with AI images, it is a resistance, a battle between an expression of the human soul and manufacturing machines without conscience.

Art used (In order of appearance):

Daniele Gay - Where weird things happen
artstation.com/artwork/14oOgK

Max Horbatiuk - Kyiv-Sviatoshyn
artstation.com/artwork/18gQ0L

Max Bedulenko - Vienna
artstation.com/artwork/k4LRb6

Jean Paul fiction - Dieselpunk madness!
artstation.com/artwork/AqBOEy

Jean Paul fiction - Aircruisers
artstation.com/artwork/eadr93

Jean Paul fiction - Albion Walker
artstation.com/artwork/Bm5BrA

Krzysztof Piasek - Dieselpunk City 2
artstation.com/artwork/aGqk5L

Kyong Ju Park - Vienna (UE5)
artstation.com/artwork/qQDW8z

Gabriel Tanko - Cluj - Dieselpunk
artstation.com/artwork/Jl0D8Z

Gabriel Tanko - Mecha Repression
artstation.com/artwork/A9xKJy

Max Horbatiuk - Battle
artstation.com/artwork/8AdAO

This music was made on a computer with a DAW (Studio One)

Libraries used:

⚙️Brass: Infinite Brass 1.6, Cinematic Studio Brass, Berlin Brass, Trailer Brass, Metropolis Ark series.
⚙️Strings: Performance Samples Fluid Shorts, Cinematic Studio Strings, Berlin Strings, Adventure Strings, Symphobia 1.
⚙️Choirs: Dominus Pro, Oceania 1 & 2, Lumina, Soundiron Venus.
⚙️Woodwinds: Infinite Woodwinds, Cinematic Studio Woodwinds, Hollywoodwinds, Symphobia 1.
⚙️Percussion: True Strike, Cineperc

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