Songs that feel like The Matrix (1999)
A paranoid, adrenaline-charged awakening where a lonely hacker discovers reality is a cage and finds the nerve to break out of it.
- Wake Up by Rage Against the Machine: A furious call to open your eyes to the system, and it plays over the film's closing credits.
- Mindfields by The Prodigy: Pounding, paranoid big-beat that sounds like running through a hostile digital world.
- Spybreak! by Propellerheads: The breakbeat-driven rush of the lobby shootout, all slick leather and stylised combat.
- Du hast by Rammstein: Cold, mechanical industrial menace, used in the film's club scene.
- Hurt by Nine Inch Nails: Numb alienation and the ache of waking to a hollow existence.
- Firestarter by The Prodigy: Aggressive, snarling energy matching the insurgents' defiance against the machines.
- Teardrop by Massive Attack: Hypnotic, shadowy trip-hop that captures the uneasy half-dream before the awakening.
- Born Slippy (Nuxx) by Underworld: Relentless, escalating late-90s techno propulsion with a sense of urban breakout.
