Warped, alien electronic textures folding in on themselves. EQUAL is Osamu Sato's 1995 Windows-era project, and if you know his work on LSD Dream Emulator, you already know this goes places. "Chu-Teng (Hungy Futurist Mix)" reimagines material from his surreal adventure game into pulsing, disorienting grooves.
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The remix credits read like a 90s electronica hall of fame, with Wagon Christ, F.S.O.L., and Tony Morley all putting their stamp on Sato's compositions. "A Spaceman Made of Stars" is the one that sticks, floating somewhere between ambient and pure weirdness.
"Retrocognition" sounds like memories playing backwards through broken hardware. Mid-90s PC multimedia art at its most uncompromising. For anyone who thinks game soundtracks peaked at orchestral scores, this exists to prove otherwise.