Turntablism in a shooter. The original 2003 XIII pulled real DJs and producers for its soundtrack and it shows immediately. Faust & Shortee's The Mission has these aggressive scratch patterns over heavy breakbeats that hit different when you're sneaking through a comic book world.
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DJ Zeph's Needle Drop is pure vinyl culture, all dusty samples and crisp cuts. Z-Trip's Black Hole Remix goes darker, almost industrial in places. Romanowski shows up three times and Thirteen Thieves might be the standout, this paranoid groove that fits the conspiracy plot perfectly.
The whole tracklist feels like a mixtape from 2003 that somebody left in a shooter. If you miss when games curated actual underground music instead of orchestral wallpaper, start here.