Soundtrack

[LordOronir]

Main menu music is sad they should put russian or communist music.

[mmc_]

Great input! You might consider pursuing musical carier as it seems you have deep understanding on the topic!

Jokes aside, if you actually complete the game, you might just realize why this particular piece was selected.

Personally, I love the main theme. I think it was my main motive to buy the game. Whoever choose that exact music, has my sympaties and support.

[chuuy]

Do they have an official soundtrack?

[Futuristic Hexagon]

Main menu music is just that. Apparently the story is one of those choose your moral route things and has lots of sad tragic turns. Sorta like the story of another border checkpoint game.

What I've been doing is playing some music over my Smart speaker that would have been appropriate for the time and place. Space Disco was pretty popular in the east Bloc, especially a French group called spAce (been playing Magic Fly, Just Blue, and Deliverance albums.) Two songs in particular work great for chases (Running in the City and Air Force.) Watch out, most streaming services don't differentiate between names well, and gives you some British band from the 90s instead. So naming a specific album or song helps. Though I guess compiling into a Playlist helps.

Found the main theme and the chase theme from Midnight express working well too (yeah I know, it takes places in Turkey, but works well here). Had autoplay enabled and then played the main theme from another well known film Moroder did the soundtrack when I ran into a van that was filled with Columbian Snow (which was the subject matter of said film), so that was funny.

Other stuff (may need to go to YouTube to find) worth mentioning for this:

Zodiac (Зодиак): Latvian group that was big in the USSR around the lage 70s/early 80s, in some ways similar to space in genre. I'd say in the former ussr they have a similar following to Space too. Like space another British band from the 90s shares its name. The Disco Aliance album in particular is worth looking at.

Anna Jantar: Popular Polish pop act from the time. She had some good hits from the time. Sadly died in the PLL LOT 007 crash in 1980.

Anna German: basically refer to her as the queen of East Bloc music. Long story short she has a lot of Soviet and Polish songs that are reasonably popular to this day, including some versions of patriotic songs you might like. A lot of her stuff is from the 1960s and is done in the Crooner style popular of that time.

Eduard Khil, 60s and 70s crooner again. Yes this is Mr. Trololo. He did some good stuff that could fit the patriotic check box. Another soviet crooner worth a look is Magomayev.

Look up some stuff from Eduard Artemyev. He did a lot of soundtracks for well known Soviet films like Solaris, Stalker, Sibiriade, and and a few things he did outside that.

Funked up east of yotube should have a few albums too that should work, especially some good funk and psych jazz from that era and place.

Could be some Alla Pugacheva that could work too.

For border guard specific songs, Die Grenzerkompanie (ddr) works well, as well as Marsch der Grenzertruppen. The Soviet border guards had a ton of songs on them.