The 2024 reissue of Ed Harrison's Neotokyo soundtrack, and it still sounds like it's transmitting from a future that never quite arrived. Same 27 tracks from the legendary Half-Life 2 mod score, now with an alternate version of "Departure" included.
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"Beacon" remains one of those tracks that builds from near-silence into something enormous, while "Haka" drops into this percussive tribal-electronic thing that shouldn't work but absolutely does. The remastered versions let you hear details buried in the original mix.
"Nimbus" still closes everything out perfectly. If you missed this the first time around or wore out your old files, this is the definitive way to experience one of PC gaming's finest soundtracks.