History Main / CyberPunkIsTechno

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** It's a franchise staple. ''WesternAnimation/TronUprising'' uses a cross of a stripped-down Legacy theme and incidental music that wouldn't be out of place in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond''. ''VideoGame/TronEvolution'' has a soundtrack very close to ''Legacy''[='=]s, and the [[CanonDiscontinuity discredited]] ''VideoGame/TronTwoPointOh'' has a soundtrack that plays like a love letter to Wendy Carlos -- orchestreal arrangements on synthesyzer.

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* The self-styled "present-day cyberpunk" novel ''Literature/{{Dopamine}}'' intentionally invokes this trope early in the story. When Jason Tuttle meets Danny at Noc Noc to give him his mission assignment, the chapter opens on Noc Noc's techno / dubstep background noise filling the club.

* ''VideoGame/{{Syndicate}}'', although the 2012 reboot uses Music/{{Dubstep}} as well.

** Save from some ending songs, ''VisualNovel/DRAMAticalMurder'' had ElectronicMusic soundtrack. In the Anime, the soundtrack is techno with film-scorey sounds, a la Film/TronLegacy.

* The music in ''Film/BladeRunner'' (by Vangelis) is not quite techno, but makes heavy use of synthesizers (except for the famous [[LoveTheme "love theme"]], [[{{Sexophone}} played on a saxophone]]).
** Vangelis' music subverts this trope big time, consisting primarily of melodic, minimalistic electronica and being complete opposite of dynamic techno, trance or rock, commonly associated with the genre.

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* [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] in WebComic/AquaRegia, in which the heroes [[SeinfeldianConversation talk about the music]] they listen, Daniel states that he [[LargeHam loves]] Thrash Metal while Nimsi states that she likes industrial, in a... much more [[TheStoic quiet tone]].
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* '90s-era ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' comics frequently had posters up on the walls for Music/NineInchNails, [[Music/RobZombie White Zombie]] and other industrial-metal acts. The tendency of the [[{{Dystopia}} dystopian future setting]] to use this kind of music was lampshaded during the ''Doomsday for Megacity 1'' arc across ''2000AD'' and the Judge Dredd Megazine: Anderson meets a contact at a nightclub and comments that the music is giving her a headache and she can't understand why it's so popular.

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* The self-styled "present-day cyberpunk" novel ''Literature/{{Dopamine}}'' intentionally invokes this trope early in the story. When Jason Tuttle meets Danny at Noc Noc to give him his mission assignment, the chapter opens on Noc Noc's techno / dubstep background noise filling the club.
* Lynn, the main protagonist of '''The Bones of Time''' trains herself to play synth sets, in a future-set world, where she yearns to live by it, played to tourists at a Waikiki bar's rooftop.
* Averted in ''Literature/SnowCrash'', where Hiro's flatmate Vitaly Chernobyl plays "Nuclear Fuzz-Grunge" with his band The Meltdowns; Hiro ends up hearing their first charting single playing, much later in the book, and experiences a moment of acute homesickness. An utterly dreadful Japanese rapper named Sushi K also makes an appearance, although he ends up getting hit with a thrown bottle while on stage, so his popularity, at least with the Los Angeles Kourier subculture, seems to be minimal.

* ''The Gene Generation'' soundtrack. Mostly the music is EBM/Industrial (several songs from EBM / Industrial / Electro act Combichrist are used), and even the non-Industrial music is written by Ronan Harris from Music/VNVNation (a popular Futurepop act). Add the fact that the director and all the characters constantly dress as futuristic goths and you have a film that basically is one giant advertisement for the entire catalogue of Metropolis Records.

* The entire UsefulNotes/{{synthwave}} genre is specifically devoted to recreating the old techno soundtracks of 80's cyberpunk. For example, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLPoZGX0qZk this hour-length mix of nothing but songs that would fit a cyberpunk movie]].

* Llamasoft's ''VideoGame/{{Polybius}}'', a psychedelic VR shooter inspired by the arcade urban legend, has an electronica soundtrack by an ensemble of artists in various sub-genres, including techno, trance, house, big beat, D&B, and synthwave.

* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'':

* UsefulNotes/{{MOD}} artist Skaven produced a cyberpunk-themed techno tune titled [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThmznU1W47w "Data Jack"]].

** On the other hand, given that the games appear on the UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance system, it could very well just be {{Retraux}} 8-bit style music (a la the 8-bit GameBoy).

* {{Lynn}}, the main protagonist of '''The Bones of Time''' trains herself to play synth sets, in a future-set world, where she yearns to live by it, played to tourists at a Waikiki bar's rooftop.

* Averted in ''Literature/SnowCrash'', where Hiro's flatmate Vitaly Chernobyl plays "Nuclear Fuzz-Grunge" with his band The Meltdowns; Hiro ends up hearing their first charting single playing, much later in the book, and experiences a moment of acute homesickness. An utterly dreadful Japanese rapper named Sushi K also makes an appearance, although he ends up getting hit with a thrown bottle while on stage, so his popularity, at least with the Los Angelese Kourier subculture, seems to be minimal.

* Played with in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty'', which is undeniably cyberpunk, but accompanied mostly by a sort of techno/light jazz fusion. The straight-up techno elements are also heavier in Snake's chapter; Raiden's has more of a jungle slant, until returning to techno right at the very end when [[Synopsis/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty everything goes to hell]].

* The entire [[{{Retraux}} retrowave]] genre is specifically devoted to recreating the old techno soundtracks of 80's cyberpunk. For example, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLPoZGX0qZk this hour-length mix of nothing but songs that would fit a cyberpunk movie]].

* ''VideoGame/SensoryOverload'' for the Macintosh, with its mind control technology-based plot, had an EBM soundtrack,[[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic which was awesome]], despite there only being four BGM tracks.

* ''VideoGame/ContraShatteredSoldier'' features techno and industrial metal produced by [[Music/{{Bemani}} Sota Fujimori]] and [[Franchise/SilentHill Akira Yamaoka]]. [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic And it's awesome]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Rez}}''.

* The music in ''Film/BladeRunner'' (by Vangelis) is not quite techno, but makes heavy use of synthesizers (except for the famous "love theme", [[{{Sexophone}} played on a saxophone]]).

* The ''RaySeries''.

* ''Vegas Stakes'', a casino game by Creator/HALLaboratory for the {{SNES}}, has the [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture "2020"]], a futuristic, CyberPunk-themed casino complete with [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuygAAVZ7wY repetitive techno music]] blaring in the background.

* Played with in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty'', which is undeniably cyberpunk, but accompanied mostly by a sort of techno/light jazz fusion. The straight-up techno elements are also heavier in Snake's chapter; Raiden's has more of a jungle slant, until returning to techno right at the very end when [[MGS2Ending everything goes to hell]].

* ''VideoGame/ContraShatteredSoldier'' features techno and industrial metal produced by [[{{Bemani}} Sota Fujimori]] and [[Franchise/SilentHill Akira Yamaoka]]. [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic And it's awesome]].

* Perhaps some justification for the trope; {{Industrial}} music act FrontLineAssembly deliberately aimed for a CyberPunk sound with their albums ''Tactical Neural Implant'' and ''Hard Wired''.

** ''VideoGame/QuakeII'' has an IndustrialMetal soundtrack by Sonic Mayhem and they co-produced ''VideoGame/QuakeIIIArena''s soundtrack with the {{Industrial}} band FrontLineAssembly.