FM synth space opera done exactly right. Schwarzschild SOUNDWARE compiles music from the Schwarzschild strategy series on FM Towns and PC-98, and the hardware sings here. Theme From Schwarzschild III has this grand, militaristic FM brass that sounds enormous coming out of a chip.
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The WAR Songs tracks cycle through tense, pulsing arrangements that keep the pressure up during tactical gameplay. Then The Dethperant gets almost prog with its structure, shifting between moods without warning. Here Comes the Planets!
has goofy energy that offsets all the seriousness. That late-80s/early-90s Japanese PC sound. If you dig FM synthesis and retro space strategy vibes, this collection covers a whole era of it.