The LP, which follows "Personal Computer" from 2022 and "Floppy Disk Overdrive" from 2020, comes from the expansive mind of Love, an Italian producer who emerged from the underground as an anonymous project in 2016 to create the soundtrack for the cyberpunk point-and-click adventure game "VirtuaVerse". The project seamlessly transformed into an autonomous entity, releasing over 14 albums in a few years. To create "Hardwarez", the technologist worked by live-streaming his desktop on YouTube while composing new music. Everything is programmed via MIDI. "The very first song I wrote is actually the first single, 'CPU'," he explains. "Even though the other songs on the album have a quite different style, the type of riffs and the different melodic section of this track served as a basis to refine the sound before going further." It was also on "CPU" that Love decided to test real guitar overdubs and was inspired by the results.