Heavy, dark electronic pulses straight out of 1997 cyberpunk. Ghost in the Shell on PS1 got a soundtrack that sounds like someone fed Massive Attack through a net-diving terminal and let it run. "ISHIKAWA SURFS THE SYSTEM" is peak late-90s techno, all rolling bass and filtered synths that feel like scrolling through data at dangerous speeds.
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"FIRECRACKER" hits harder, more aggressive, the kind of track that plays when bullets start flying. And "TO BE OR NOT TO BE [OFF THE CUFF MIX]" closes things out with that existential weight the franchise lives on. "SPECTRE" and "BLINDING WAVES" keep the mid-album tension tight.
The PS1 hardware gives everything this slightly compressed, gritty texture that actually works in the soundtrack's favor. If you want to feel like a cyborg questioning consciousness while riding the Tokyo subway at midnight, press play.