Crunchy, lo-fi electronic beats with a hacker punk attitude. EXAPUNKS is from Zachtronics, the studio that makes programming puzzles feel cool, and this soundtrack absolutely sells the 90s hacker zine fantasy. "Let's Hacking" is unironically one of the best track names ever and the beat slaps.
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"The Rave" closes things out with exactly the energy you'd expect. "Network Exploration" has this methodical, clicking rhythm that mirrors the feeling of poking through systems. It runs on Linux, Mac, and Windows, and the music feels cross-platform too.
Gritty enough for a basement, clean enough for headphones. If you want to feel like you are breaking into a corporate mainframe in 1997 while reading a zine, press play.