That opening synth wash on VISIONNERZ and you're gone. Darius Gaiden dropped in 1994 arcades and brought a soundtrack that had no business being this experimental for a shooter. "Singing in the BRAIN" is the one people remember, this bizarre vocal-synth hybrid that sounds like nothing else from that era.
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"SELF" carries heavy techno energy through its boss fight, and the arrange version of VISIONNERZ opens the album with a fuller, more polished take on the main theme. Zuntata was operating on another level here. The arcade hardware gets pushed into territory between ambient, techno, and something almost prog.
Tracks like "Tranquilizers" and "FAKE" feel genuinely avant-garde. For anyone who thinks 90s arcade music was just chiptunes and rock riffs, this will rearrange your brain.