Crunchy, glitchy IDM beats bleeding out of your PC speakers in 1998. Hardwar: The Future is Greedy on Windows licensed tracks from artists like Squarepusher and Autechre and it absolutely shows. "Chin Hippy" bounces off the walls of your cockpit while you're dogfighting over a Titan moon, and "Clipper" hits with that cold Tri Repetae era precision.
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Then "Second Bad Vilbel" kicks in and suddenly your trade run feels like a fever dream. The whole soundtrack plays like a late-90s Warp Records sampler stitched into a space trading sim. Grimy, mechanical, perfectly wrong for a game about flying hovercars and somehow exactly right.
If you ever wanted an excuse to blast Autechre while pretending you're a space capitalist, here it is.