Glitchy breakbeats layered over a traditional rice planting song. Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex on PS2 did something genuinely strange with its music archive, and the result sounds like Section 9 raiding a server farm in rural Japan.
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The Rikuu Rice Planting Song shows up multiple times, remixed through different electronic filters. "Crossing Materials@Jointing Kit" folds it into industrial textures, while "grind guitar complex" shreds it apart entirely.
Then the "stacomps2.DnB sanodg mix" goes full drum and bass, exactly the kind of thing you'd expect from a 2004 cyberpunk tie-in. The stage-specific tracks follow PS2 conventions, each location getting its own ambient loop.
"Niihama Pier N3" versus "Multi-Level Car Parking Tower" versus the Tohoku region blocks. If you want to hear what early 2000s anime-game electronica sounded like when it was actually trying, start here.