#checks out - theres a NIN-y vibe to the underscore soundtrack

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The game also features a massive score that clearly channels some of the brashest electronic music of the 1990s. Aiming to echo 2077’s gritty aesthetic, music director Marcin Przybyłowicz and composers P.T. Adamczyk and Paul Leonard-Morgan consciously avoided the ’80s-inspired microgenres sometimes associated with the broader sci-fi genre of cyberpunk (synthwave, outrun). “We wanted to draw from industrial, IDM, techno, genres that are not necessarily ‘score-friendly,’” Adamczyk tells me. “We took musical devices from those genres and mangled them, mashing them with other styles to create narrative structure from them.” They also invited Nine Inch Nails drummer Ilan Rubin out to Poland for a recording session, in the hopes of injecting “a vague touch of humanity” to the sonic landscape, says Leonard-Morgan. They would eventually chop and process his breaks to fit the final score.

Noah Yoo, “Inside the Star-Studded Soundtrack to Cyberpunk 2077″ Pitchfork 14 December 2020 https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/inside-the-star-studded-soundtrack-to-cyberpunk-2077/