Brooding electronic layers that feel like rain on concrete at 4 AM in a city that doesn't exist yet. Ed Harrison wrote the Neotokyo soundtrack for a Half-Life 2 tactical mod and accidentally created one of the best cyberpunk albums ever made.
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"Annul" opens with this suffocating ambient pressure, then "Tin Soldiers" breaks into drum and bass that hits like Ghost in the Shell scored by Boards of Canada. "Sprawl" stretches out into something almost meditative before "Mechanism" snaps you back with industrial textures.
Twenty-seven tracks and not a single throwaway. If you've never played the mod, honestly doesn't matter. This soundtrack transcends the game it was made for.