The year is 1998 and 2001. I’m the sweaty guy who sits in a van full of computer equipment chainsmoking. I get iced by a rogue agent about halfway through the movie after I open the door expecting a pizza delivery, my last words being “You took your damn ti — ” before taking a bullet between the eyes. And you, my friends, are about to do some dumb parkour stunts to evade capture by tooled-up corporate mercenaries. In the year 1997.
1. Junkie XL — No Remorse
Opening credits roll over montage of computer/cyberspace/hacker stuff happening. A bit Matrix, a bit Hackers, a bit That 90s Semi-Cyberpunk Flick That Never Existed But Lives On In The Popular Consciousness As A Hot Mess of Genre Signifiers
2. Garbage — Vow (Tuesday Night Club Mix)
Something highly illegal is happening in a seedy corner of a big city. Maybe some undercover cops are watching, maybe they blow their cover, maybe someone gets shot, I don’t know.
3. Curve — Missing Link
This is what our heroine listens to while getting ready for work as cybercop who’s secretly a cyberterrorist who’s secretly a cybercop.
4. Dreamgrinder — Dreamgrinder (Girl Eats Boy Mix)
This is the soundtrack to walking around the massive shiny glass & steel cybercop HQ. Cinemagoers trying to ID this track (remember, this is the year 2000, Shazam doesn’t even exist in its primitive call centre format yet, in the year 1999) will be driven mad trying to Google that Public Enemy sample only to turn up a Junkie XL track that also used it.
5. Meg Lee Chin — Bottle (J. Hotrod Mix)
Our heroine goes to a seedy bar to meet a seedy informant. Did I mention that the bar is seedy. There will be some sort of pole dancing going on. Meg Lee Chin herself can be singing in the bar if she’s not busy with Pigface or something. It’s 2001.
6. C-Tec — Shift IV
Someone shoots the informant. A tediously predictable parkour chase (remember that, from the year 1998?) across rooftops and up and down fire escapes ensues.
7. Leftield ft. Afrika Bambaataa — Afrika Shox
Our heroine has lost the assassin inside a club. She searches for him in vain, with the bouncers hot on her heels. It’s ok to use this track because it’s the year 1999 and nobody knows Bambaataa is a nonce yet. People are also smoking inside the club, because it’s the year 2001 and smoking in clubs hasn’t been banned yet. People are also doing at least two Drugs, if not three, inside the club. Because it’s the year 2000 and Drugs are still cool and illegal.
8. Hybrid — Altitude (Red Square Reprise)
The chase goes horribly wrong. Some bystanders are shot. Chaos everywhere.
9. Recoil — Chrome
Our heroine has been sacked from the cybercops and is now angrily drinking / smoking alone in a sleek but sparsely decorated residence with guns and nunchucks n shit hanging on the walls.
10. Luke Slater — Bolt Up
All the action kicks off again. Loads of guns and helicopters and sirens and explosions. And expendable dudes in shades / gas masks / balaclavas getting expended.
11. Fluke — Goodnight Lover
Final scene where it all somehow gets neatly resolved, and closing credits.
Soundtrack coming late 2000 on TVT, probably.
