Koji Ueno composed this for Gadget: Invention, Travel & Adventure, and it sounds like a machine dreaming about the 1930s. The subtitle says it all: quasisymphonic movements and noise montages. "Overture - Invention, Travel and Adventure" opens with orchestral textures that feel warped, like a gramophone playing through broken glass.
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Then "cannonade... canonize..." dissolves into industrial sound design that hums and clicks with mechanical paranoia. This is a 1995 CD-ROM experience about a dystopian retro-futurist world, and Ueno matches that tension perfectly.
"Reve Des Eaux" offers a rare moment of stillness, almost impressionist. "Steeltrot" snaps you right back into unease. If you want experimental game music from the Myst era that actually committed to being weird, start here.