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.