The soundtrack to Command & Conquer was the first video game produced by Westwood to feature streaming music as opposed to the MIDI format. The 22k mono tracks where produced using an ASR-10 sampler, a Roland S760 sampler and a Roland JD-990 synth module. Klepacki has credited influences from dozens of artists including Peter Gabriel, Pink Floyd and Nine Inch Nails in the production of the soundtrack. Klepacki stated he wrote the songs in "batches", each with different themes. Songs such as Prepare for Battle where written in an orchestral style while others such as C&C Thang touched on Hip Hop or metal in Deception. Certain songs such as Hold on, a chilling art piece in the style of Laurie Anderson, were cut from the game because they did not fit the style Klepacki was aiming for in the o