How The Team Behind Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty’s Score Created A Spy-Thriller Soundtrack
Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt Red, Netflix, and Milan Records have finally released the Cyberpunk: Edgerunners soundtrack, including the Franz Ferdinand theme song, «This Fire.» The soundtrack also features the outro song, «Let You Down» by Dawid Podsiadło, and others that play throughout the limited series anime like composer Akira Yamaoka’s «Whatever It Takes» and more. The soundtrack, which also features music by composers Marcin Przybyłowicz and P.T. Adamczyk, is available to stream today, but CDPR has revealed a vinyl release coming in early 2024; preorders are now open.
The release of the Edgerunners soundtrack follows the debut of Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty last month, alongside the standard edition and Deluxe Edition release of the Phantom Liberty score. You can listen to the Phantom Liberty deluxe soundtrack here and the Edgerunners soundtrack here.
To accompany today’s music-centric news, we spoke to CDPR composers P.T. Adamczyk and Jacek Paciorkowski about the score for Cyberpunk 2077 and its Phantom Liberty expansion, the Edgerunners soundtrack, and much more.
While my conversation with Adamczyk and Paciorkowski was mostly about the Phantom Liberty and Edgerunners scores, having not talked to them about Cyberpunk 2077, I was curious how they first approached this universe's music. Adamczyk says it was about taking the direction of Cyberpunk, which he feels is rooted heavily in 1980s music, and bringing it to the 1990s.
«We wanted that kind of edge in our score, and that kind of edge can mean many different things, but for us, it was the music we grew up on,» Adamczyk says, noting U.K.-based inspiration like The Prodigy and Europe's techno scene in the later 90s. «At first, it could be a little
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