Another retro-styled Steins;Gate rearrangement, but this one commits to the bit even harder. The Henikuukan no Octet CD recreates the soundtrack as if it were running on an MEC PC-8081mk2SR, a fictional computer that's basically a Sharp/NEC hybrid from Okabe's fever dreams.
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Gate of Steiner in this format sounds haunted, all wobbly FM tones and bare-bones pulse channels carrying a melody that was already devastating. Solitude strips down to almost nothing and somehow that makes it lonelier. Sky-clad Observer buzzes and chirps with this frantic energy that the original's polish smoothed over.
The lo-fi constraints reveal the compositional bones underneath. If you loved the Sharbo Z1 versions, this is the even crunchier companion piece.