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The whole soundtrack may deserve to be here, but the tracks listed below embody the spirit of ''Hotline Miami''.
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!!''VideoGame/HotlineMiami'':
%%* To start with, there's the three most iconic songs in the game: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVvFjMF8Zlo Hydrogen]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-JXiGv69lc Crystals]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcvZowzbN5M Paris 2]], by M.O.O.N.
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* For a pumping synth-y disco beat, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHrk7LH-46A Miami Disco]]" by Music/{{Perturbator}} and "Knock Knock" by Scattle are the ones to go for.
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoF2bo0RAbo Release]]" by M.O.O.N. fits into this, with its resemblance to the ''Film/BladeRunner'' theme.
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwH4qftXNfA Daisuke]]" by El Huervo is a relaxing track that plays during Beard's scenes, emphasizing his friendly and laid-back personality. In the song, there is some OminousLatinChanting in the very beginning. In-game, this only plays on the later shop scenes in which the shop and Beard become much more disturbing. it also plays on the Richter scenes.
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnzZkpteKBw Miami]]" by Jasper Byrne plays in the score screen, and it's hard to think of any better choice. Fittingly, the tune also plays on the game's selection screen on the [=PS3=]'s Xross Media Bar game menu.
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bI8PhLIPtJs Turf]]" by El Huervo, the final level's music. Perfect for the intense showdown that happens.
* [[DummiedOut It didn't make it into the game itself]], but the trailer music, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KZlggHqU7M Vengeance]]" by Music/{{Perturbator}}, is a driving, aggressive stand-out in a fine soundtrack.
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Eh3sFfd0T4 Silver Lights]]" by Coconuts plays during your confrontations with the animal masked strangers. It's an off-putting, spine-chilling tune that really puts you in the unsettling mood the game wants you to be in.

!!''VideoGame/HotlineMiami2WrongNumber'':
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7zsfoZ5Fgk Technoir]]" by Music/{{Perturbator}} and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agCiXI8kZjE Decade Dance]]" by Jasper Byrne, for starters. Perfect level of energy for the gameplay.
* One of the first songs in the game, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDuLh0YylsE Blizzard]]" by Light Club, is so reminiscent of the first game's soundtrack that it immediately sets the tone as a return to the ''Hotline Miami'' we know and love.
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyfJlcrN09w Roller Mobster]]" by Music/CarpenterBrut plays during [[MarathonLevel Death Wish]], and it feels like an injection of pure adrenaline. "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzuPI7tk9B8 Le Perv]]" - which subsequently appeared in ''VideoGame/TheCrew'' - counts as well for the same reason.
* "Remorse" by Scattle foreshadows the mood of the level before the demise of The Henchman.
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JflsBihO_MQ Divide]]" by Magna helps introducing the intensity of the game just as it begins.
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4zD4pL5k68 Simma Hem]]" by Riddarna, a great piece of Swedish rock. It's a shame most of it isn't used in-game.[[note]]Everything from the 3:00 mark on is used for Jake's apartment.[[/note]]
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsZtCLMsevM Dust]]" by M.O.O.N., which plays at the score screen.
* "Bloodline". What may be the most punishingly difficult mid-game level on both normal and hard mode, [[ThatOneLevel Dead Ahead]], is perfectly encapsulated in a track by Scattle that matches, beat for beat, the intensity of the gauntlet Manny is partaking in.
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfCO4c23dXI Rust]]" plays at the intro to Beard's levels, and it sounds [[SuspiciouslySimilarSong suspiciously similar]] to "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go6po2Za_18 Daisuke]]", the song that plays at his stores in the first game.
* "Hotline Miami Theme" by Benny Smiles is the musical embodiment of Hawaiian warfare.
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNWWJKiyOF8 The Way Home]]" by Magic Sword plays during [[ThatOneLevel one of the hardest levels of the game]], and listening to it just invokes feelings of sadness AND raw determination to fight on towards the end. ''The Way Home'' indeed...
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h5snZTfoEA In The Face of Evil]]", another Magic Sword track, plays during the second Fans level and has a profoundly climactic build-up as you slaughter gang members to rescue a girl.
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsL3NOuZ0As Richard]]" by Dubmood and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smWC4ZjRd2U NARC]]" by Mega Drive are perfect preludes to the conquest of blood that Richter comes to partake in.
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PC4G_8_Mkr0 New Wave Hookers]]" by Vestron Vulture is a considerably more subtle and downplayed track that, unlike many of the stage themes that preceded it, is much more melancholy and perplexing in its composition, and it serves as something of a character theme for Evan.
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaE20aXxCz4 Sexualizer]]" by Music/{{Perturbator}} mixes guitar riffs and psychedelic sounds to an awesome effect, albeit playing at one of the worst moments of the game. And then the Fans barge in.
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICjD3f-8SXE Run]]" by iamthekidyouknowwhatimean plays during the Subway, and it captures Evan's anxiety perfectly.
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7uDB0mOwpA Future Club]]" by Music/{{Perturbator}} provides intense and adventurous synths and beats that match up with the Son's assault in the penultimate level.
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9i9ZQ0231E Fahkeet]]" by Light Club plays during the Son's and the game's final level, picturing the Son's descent into madness induced by drugs, resulting in his killing of the Fans. "Gotta get a grip" indeed.

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