The original 1988 Wasteland soundtrack rebuilt with modern production but keeping that same desolate soul intact. The remastered score updates every track while respecting how sparse and eerie the source material was. Wasteland Theme sets the tone immediately with this slow, brooding atmosphere that says everything about nuclear aftermath.
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Highpool carries a strange sadness to it, and Desert Nomads has that wandering, untethered feeling of crossing miles of nothing. Then Temple of Blood and Base Cochise push into darker, more aggressive territory. Las Vegas somehow sounds both alive and hollow at once.
The whole thing feels like a love letter to what those early PC speaker compositions were trying to say. Essential if you care about where the post-apocalyptic RPG genre started.