N Plus Infinity Times Two turns Bandcamp digging into soundtrack archaeology

The soundtrack story behind N Plus Infinity Times Two is exactly the kind of music news that belongs in an indie digest, even if it starts in games rather than a record shop. Metanet reportedly spent around 1,500 hours manually digging through Bandcamp, listening to parts of roughly half a million tracks over two years, to build a soundtrack rooted in UK garage and related forms rather than algorithmic recommendation sludge. That is almost absurd, but it is also beautiful. In a culture where discovery is increasingly outsourced to machines, the idea of developers brute-forcing taste by hand feels quietly radical. The game’s musical direction promises everything from flowy dreamscapes to intense bangers, with a focus on 2020s electronic music. For independent artists, this matters because soundtracks can become real discovery engines. For listeners, it is a reminder that curation is still a human craft when someone is stubborn enough to do the work.

Source: https://www.pcgamer.com/games/action/these-indie-devs-are-so-over-algorithms-they-spent-1-500-hours-listening-to-music-on-bandcamp-to-compile-the-soundtrack/