Work in progress
Reading is better with a soundtrack. For Snow Crash’s cyberpunk aesthetic and fast-paced digital culture themes, here are some music suggestions that should be available on Spotify:
Electronic/Synthwave (core cyberpunk vibes):
- Perturbator - “The Uncanny Valley” or “Dangerous Days” albums (wip)
- Carpenter Brut - “Trilogy”
- Power Trip - “Nightmare Logic”
- Dance With The Dead - “Out of Body”
- Daniel Deluxe - “Corruptor”
Industrial/EBM (matches the dystopian corporate world):
- Nine Inch Nails - “Pretty Hate Machine” or “The Downward Spiral” (wip)
- Front 242 - “Front by Front” (wip)
- Skinny Puppy - “Too Dark Park” (wip)
- Ministry - “The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste” (wip)
Hip-Hop/Electronic Fusion (fits the street culture elements):
- Death Grips - “The Money Store” (wip)
- Run the Jewels - any album (wip)
- Deltron 3030 - “Deltron 3030”
- Aphex Twin - “Richard D. James Album” (wip)
Ambient/Atmospheric (for the Metaverse scenes):
- Brian Eno - “Music for Airports”
- Tim Hecker - “Ravedeath, 1972” (wip)
- Oneohtrix Point Never - “Replica”
The synthwave and industrial tracks especially capture that retro-futuristic 80s-meets-cyberpunk energy that runs throughout the novel. Perturbator and Carpenter Brut are particularly good matches for the book’s blend of violence, technology, and neon aesthetics.