That Yamaha FM chip doing things no synth chip should be able to do. Yuzo Koshiro turned the Genesis sound hardware into a full-blown club system with Streets of Rage 2, and "Go Straight" alone is proof he understood dance music on a molecular level.
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"Dreamer" slows everything down into this hazy late-night drift that still sounds gorgeous. Then "Expander" hits and you're back in some underground warehouse rave circa 1992. The prototype and unused tracks on this release show how many ideas were flying around, "Walking Bottom" especially.
Every track punches above what 16-bit hardware should allow. If you've never sat with this soundtrack front to back outside the game, you owe yourself that night.