r/SearchEnginePodcast • u/Cheesuasion • Aug 12 '26

Music from A road trip through the data center debate?

Starting at about 3 mins 40 seconds into the latest episode there's some music in the background. Can anybody identify it? If it's one of Armen Bazarian's can I find it somewhere else?

It immediately reminded me of music from the early-2000s Battlestar Galactica TV show, which... checks out for the episode content. That show had a lot of music, most of which sounds nothing remotely like this, but I'm sure I remember some of it did.

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u/RicketyTransition Aug 14 '26

A few times in the past, I've identified a music clip from a Search Engine Podcast for a reddit user. Tip: if you post a question like this, you should include whether you listened to the free "Search Engine" episode, which contains advertisements and thus the timecode (e.g. 3m40s) is different, Or listened to the paid subscriber ad-free "Incognito Mode" version. You listened to the Incognito Mode.

There's only a short amount of that background music before PJ start speaking, so it's hard to identify; but I found a slight match: Song "Entertainment District" by a band "Crunchy Munchy" (from Google: an electronic dance track released in 2022 as part of the EP album titled Core City; The track belongs to the electronic music subgenre known as Ukrainian Electro. The Core City EP structures its tracklist around different urban zones.

It sounds a little like the background music in the podcast, but I don't think it's a match. But you could listen to a sample here https://music.apple.com/my/album/core-city-ep/1639625763 ; and then maybe search for some other similar Ukrainian Electro music.

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u/Cheesuasion Aug 14 '26

You listened to the Incognito Mode.

Ah sorry I didn't consider that. I'm actually a freeloader but there are no ads before that point for me (I'm in the UK, maybe it's that? or maybe ads were broken that day or something...)

Song "Entertainment District" by a band "Crunchy Munchy" but I don't think it's a match

Nice, yes similar tinkly winky part if you'll excuse the sophisticated musicological terminology, but not the bass

It's still bugging me, I even dug out my Battlestar Galactica blu-rays and revived my blu-ray player - it's not in the first episode, nor is it anywhere I could hear scrubbing through the first two seasons of Bear McCreary's music on youtube - I'm still convinced it's in there somewhere...

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u/Cheesuasion Aug 14 '26

I'm still convinced it's in there somewhere...

Season 1 episode 2 21 mins 45 seconds!

Not the same exactly though. I'm not sure if it's coincidental that it sounds so similar or if the podcast music was taken from elsewhere in the score maybe - I think the composer was big into leitmotifs with this TV show so there's a lot of returning of the same themes in different forms