Came here to rave about those two as well! I remember whiling away my downtime at school reading Mat Uelman’s liner notes on the old Battle.net website and finally waking up to how video games didn’t need their soundtrack to fit in a neat little “box” of low-fidelity synth loops (though I still love that style)

One of the tracks had a comment from him about how he relishes any opportunity to break the rules of the genre he’s composing for. The quote was something along the lines of “More lasers in Hell. Hell needs lasers!” It just stuck with me for decades since