The Peak Techno EP Of The Year Is A Video Game OST

        So picture this. You're an internet traveller who's also loves EDM (Keep this is mind as this will be important later). You're just looking around and you start getting word of this indie thriller game whose mascot is a creepy faced man with a shotgun. He's in all of the thumbnails and he's presumably the antagonist. You're disinterested so you move on. Then, later, you get a video by a popular pixel animator known for particularly disturbing videos, specifically regarding popular culture like Mario and Garfield. You scroll through his shorts and find a video of that same game from earlier, and you hear a glimpse of... what's that? Is that techno music?! And it slaps kinda?! You get intrigued, but after this you forget about it. That is until you get another video regarding this game, but not of gameplay, but from an NPC's perspective. Then you hear it. Yes, that is techno music, and it slaps.

        The game I'm talking about is Buckshot Roulette, the indie thriller game with the creepy shotgun man. It's a simple game with the premise being "Russian Roulette with a 12-gage shotgun." It also has an apparent ARG but I know nothing about that. Besides, we're barely talking about gameplay and lore in this blog. I'm talking about how I Hate Models needs to come get his mans because this OST has some techno bangers in it.

        Buckshot Roulette takes place in a dark nightclub. Lights are flashing, the music is driving, and a crooked dealer is sitting at a table, waiting for whoever comes through that door, because he wants to play a game. Gameplay wise, it starts with the dealer loading the shotgun with a random assortment of blank and live rounds, "In an unknown order." Then you and the dealer take turns either shooting yourself, or shooting each other. Down the line, you get items, like a magnifying glass so you can see the current round, a saw to increase the damage of the shotgun, handcuffs to prevent the opponent from doing anything on their next turn, and more. The round ends when someone looses all of their health, to which either you will win $70,000, or walk away... in heaven, where you are an angel. (That is a pun that will relate to something later)

        Blah-deh-blah, let's talk about the music. The OST has seven tracks that pertain to the different events in the game, like all OSTs do. We have:

1. Blank Shell (Title Screen)
2. General Release (Intro and first round)
3. Before Every Load (Second round)
4. Socket Calibration (Sudden death round)
5. Monochrome LCD (Browsing the computer with leaderboards and ARG stuff)
6. 70K (You win, good ending)
7. You Are An Angel (You lose and die, bad ending, see the last sentence of the last paragraph)

Blank Shell is just to set the ambiance of the game in the title screen. It's to subtly hint that this game is a thrilling twist on an already twisted game, if that makes sense. General Release is the song that intrigued me, because it was a genuinely cool thing to hear techno music in a game (In a thriller game no less). The metallic noises, that synth, it just sounds SOO FREAKING COOL. Before Every Load is why I think I Hate Models needs to come here and get his mans. This song is genuinely structured like a legit techno song. Chaotic, sporadic drum filling around with weird technology noises, gradually getting less sporadic. AND THEN IT TURNS INTO SOMETHING THAT BELONGS ON I HATE MODELS' INTERGALACTIC EMOTIONAL BREAKDOWN. This synth comes in playing this really cool high riff, then tinier synths come in after that to lay down a key progression, it's an insane track, probably my favorite on the EP. Socket Calibration is where things get real, because it's the sudden death round. The song goes from 140 to a chugging 125 bpm, there's droning noises to set the menacingly tense tone behind the driving drums, an arpeggiating synth thing. It's kinda brutal tbh. It sets you in the mood, it tenses you, because you and the dealer are "dancing on the edge of life and death." Monochrome LCD takes us out of gameplay and into conceptual elements of the game. It's a droning synth track which sounds like it could play in like, an abandoned lab setting. It's what you hear when you're browsing the mysterious computer in the starting bathroom. 70K is a happier synth track, sort of to let you know that you made it out alive, and a better man than you were before; a gambler who risks his life. On the exact opposite side of the spectrum, we have You Are An Angel, a terrifying midtempo banger. When this song plays, you have just died and went to a darker depiction of the afterlife. White skies, spiky protrusions coming out of the black land, and an ominous gate you walk through. Meanwhile we have a song that sounds like something that Rezz would make (The synth from YAAA sounds like the synth from Diluted Brains actually).

        So there's my rant about the Buckshot Roulette OST. As always (If I remember how to do this correctly) click the album art to run this really cool techno album that comes with this weird game about Russian Roulette or something.