The word "Victorian" is used very loosely here to really encompass the eloquence of the quaint as well as the extravagant styles of times and places past. Think light academia, cottages, Italian villas, and Jane Austen. This compilation is really more of an archive meant to be played in no particular order in the background. Full of at least piano music and at most orchestral epics, it invokes the feeling of a beautiful yet quiet life.

The cover art is a hymn book from the time in my youth as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (as my faith waned, I often got delusional trying to save it so I always convinced myself that I was part of a "Georgian but popularly Victorian school of magic and though). It implies that since a book can theoretically have countless pages that this playlist has no specified length.

This one is more complicated. Typically, steampunk styles are heavily influenced by specifically Victorian fashion, but I always have my own twist on things and how I see them. To me, the steampunk aesthetic is more interesting when viewed as the industrial backbone of the American Wild West. Think "Wild Wild West". These songs when put together kind of tell the story of an alternate timeline more heavily influenced again by Mormon settlers and also steam-powered computers. I imagine the music in this list actually coming from this time and place, so whatever technology used to write and record it has to somehow exist in a steam-powered world. I try to intrigue the listener just a bit and let the world build inside their own imagination. Picture the plains and hilly landscapes with zeppelins crossing overhead dual-track steam behemoths while indigenous people resist oppressive land theft with their own twist on metallurgy.

The cover features a vinyl LP capable of holding up to 46 minutes, so the playlist is only allowed to be that long or less. This technology is also not period accurate, so allow yourself to explore how it was possible for it to be invented roughly 100 years early.

Kind of what started the "Big Four" was this playlist. The concept struck me while I was driving home after my shift at an Amazon warehouse and "My Name Is" by Eminem came on the radio. Immediately, I envisioned a dry, trashy world blanketed by technological accelerationism and corporate oppression. This may not seem very far from a regular cyberpunk world, but I still absolutely have my own twist on it. More influenced by "the stacks" from "Ready Player One", I see a more down-to-earth and day-to-day kind of climate collapse-centered world. Each of the first five songs also represents the various kinds of cyberpunks, more diverse than the typical "bioware" narratives. There's still of course the cyborgs, but also analog purists, internet obsessives, glitch swans, and so on. Musically, this playlist describes more of a 90s cyber culture filled with hip-hop and the endless concrete expanse at its center. Ending the playlist with "Baba O'Riley" is important to me because as a climate apocalypse song at its core, it seems to me to be one of the very first cyberpunk songs, really bringing it full circle.

The cover art is a Compact Disc, holding up to 80 minutes of music.

It's just synthwave.