looking back on ten years of the Hotline Miami game soundtrack via NME

NME Columnist Dom Pepin shares his thoughts on the decade old soundtrack to now classic game, Hotline Miami. Part of his ongoing column, Rock the Spacebar. You can read the full article on NME.com

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Rock The Spacebar is a twice-monthly column investigating the great music that underpins your favourite games. This week, Dom Peppiatt takes a break from adding Hotline Miami tracks to their new playlists to examine why – some 10 years later – the psychedelic electronica of Dennaton Games’ breakout hit remains so present, so listenable, and so perfect as an accompaniment to Hotline Miami’s timeless commentary on violence.

Bust down a door. Crack a man’s head open with a baseball bat. Pistolwhip some hired goon rushing at you from the stairs. Roll. Kick. Dodge. Take a crowbar to the face, shoot your pistol in a panic, kill the mob boss. That’s it, you’re done here. Make your way back to the front door – take one last look at the neon, the tacky Miami-inspired prints on the walls, the tiger-skin rugs – and head back to that car that looks suspiciously like DeLorean DMC-12 you parked out front earlier.

By Dom Peppiatt via NME.com.