No Man’s Sky: how a cult band created the game’s endless musical universe

Armed with an "insane audio system", Sheffield post-rockers 65daysofstatic have made an infinite soundtrack for the year's biggest video game

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"A soundtrack to infinity" sounds like the sort of thing a hairy bunch of proggers might say about their new album, but Sheffield post-rock outfit 65daysofstatic can actually lay claim to making one, or at least something very close. The band have been chosen to write the soundtrack for the much-anticipated PlayStation 4 game No Man's Sky, where the player flies by spacecraft through a galaxy that, in playable terms, will be neverending: it comprises more than 18 quintillion planets, each with its own flora, fauna and, of course, lethal robotic drones, and each needs a soundscape to fit. Manic Miner it ain't.