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Me as a kid discovering Wipeout soundtrack was truly mind-bending: Photek, Future Sound of London, Prodigy, Chemical Brothers, Daft Punk, Orbital and so many ot
by Ftuuky 5y ago
Me as a kid discovering Wipeout soundtrack was truly mind-bending: Photek, Future Sound of London, Prodigy, Chemical Brothers, Daft Punk, Orbital and so many other gems in one go. It was overwhelmingly cool!
- thot_experiment 5y agoI came here to say this and you beat me to it. Absolutely a formative experience for me. I may have to replay it soon.
- protiex 5y agoI blame this soundtrack for piquing a curiosity in me for electronic music that I never really lost. Listening to Xpander (Edit) by Sasha for the first time as a 9 year old on the Wip3out soundtrack was an interesting experience!
- barbs 5y agoSame here! I'd put the game disc into a CD player and listen to it quite often.
- LgWoodenBadger 5y agoSame with discovering that the in-game advertising for RedBull was actually for a real beverage
- asteroidp 5y agoWhere in game advertising felt real and sensible. Yet was low key Then advertisers went bat shit insane
- JNRowe 5y agoOr, perhaps it was the sweet spot. A few years earlier a 7up advert was the game¹, although to be fair it isn't that bad for a 90s platformer. ¹ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_Spot https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_Spot
- rzzzt 5y agoCereal mascots also starred in one (starts with a surprise sound effect if you launch the emulator, keep volume low): https://archive.org/details/KELLOGG_201902 https://archive.org/details/KELLOGG_201902
- naoqj 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chex_Quest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chex_Quest
- addandsubtract 5y agoPepsiman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepsiman_(video_game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepsiman_(video_game)
- rasz 5y agoDavid Perrys game. This one was good because the Brand let him do his own thing. His earlier Global Gladiators for McDonald was also good for same reason, but MCDonald hated it because it didnt feature creepy clown enough :) They insisted on brilliance of "Mac and Me" :-) You cant hear about it from David himself in this podcast: "The Making of Earthworm Jim with David Perry - The Retro Hour EP319" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzETRBuzfWY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzETRBuzfWY part about advert gaming is at https://youtu.be/UzETRBuzfWY?t=3820 https://youtu.be/UzETRBuzfWY?t=3820
- a-dub 5y agoit was more like how kubrick made use of real branding in 2001 a space odyssey. it actually played a role in advancing an optimistic futurist aesthetic.
- kelsolaar 5y agoMy current pseudo comes directly from the game! :)
- mywacaday 5y agoThanks for that, never occurred to me to look for game soundtracks on Spotify until now, https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3E6gcAU0fyq74s3oUomwfo?si=e9N7uJzkRKyvbn4w2ekYEw&utm_source=copy-link https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3E6gcAU0fyq74s3oUomwfo?si=...
- monkeybutton 5y agoI have Hotline Miami's soundtrack favourited for a specific stretch of highway.
- TedDoesntTalk 5y agoI don’t know this game at all, but oh god this soundtrack is amazing! Listened to the first 3 songs so far. Thanks for sharing. How did they fit so many songs on the 1990s media?
- pvg 5y agoThe game shipped on a CD. What's more, after the game booted, you could replace the game CD in the Playstation with your own music CD and the game would play the music from your CD, apply the environmental sound effects, etc.
- TedDoesntTalk 5y agoBut the Spotify soundtrack that was linked is 5 hours 27 minutes. Even with poor mp3 encoding, some space for code and data, it seems like an awful lot for one CD. Maybe they just had song excerpts?
- Eduard 5y agothe in-house soundtrack from _Cold Storage_ is amazing as well. I love to listen to it to this day
- joezydeco 5y agoI loved that soundtrack too. Fluke also used Wipeout imagery for their "Atom Bomb" video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHMzCpy0fXc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHMzCpy0fXc
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- zumu 5y agoWow the visual aesthetic of this video is almost exactly what I've been seeing the kids get into these days.
- fb03 5y agoI believe the Wipeout soundtrack was a introduction to 'real' electronic music to a lot of kids/teens at the time, including me. The instrumental version of Firestarter is forever embedded in my memories ;-)
- protiex 5y agoIt was really amazing how pervasive this music was at the turn of the century, it really was everywhere. Games like Wipeout re-introduced a generation that just missed the tail end of rave culture to Big beat, Trance and Drum & Bass and it really felt like a pivotal cultural moment with how accessible these genres were becoming in the late 90s.
- pmarreck 5y ago> how pervasive this music was at the turn of the century, it really was everywhere Everywhere, except the United States. I know, because I was a States-resident techno-head and I had to go "underground" to experience this stuff with others. I don't know if it was the echoes of the disco backlash triggered by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disco_Demolition_Night https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disco_Demolition_Night (one of my earliest memories), but electronic music was extremely niche in the US at least until Deadmau5 lit up the Jersey Shore circa 2010. And to this day, if you go to certain places like New Orleans, any request for anything electronic will have someone redirect you to the "gay district" (the cultural/musical co-delineation is oddly strict down there)
- proactivesvcs 5y agoVery few games have made my heart pound like wipEout did, as the camera panned down and towards the racetrack as that song started. Occasionally I actually played well enough to do the music proud ;-)
- lelandfe 5y agoFun how that stuff works. A decade later, Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition is what got my friend group hooked on drum & bass as teens.
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- Pxtl 5y agoIIRC that was WipeOut XL/2097 and 3 that had proper name-brand electronic music on it. The original one was all a guy called Cold Storage. Still excellent.
- crtasm 5y agoThey must have been thinking of that yes, but the EU version of the first game did have a few other artists on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wipeout_(video_game)#Music https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wipeout_(video_game)#Music
- glouwbug 5y agoI loved how accurate FSOL's music videos were. They had iPhones, iPads, iWatches, google maps, windows surfaces, everything down to a modern day T. The following was uploaded 2007, but I wonder if it was shot or made even earlier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_ZB6jgJMS8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_ZB6jgJMS8
- crtasm 5y agoDo you know any more about that video? I feel pretty certain FSOL didn't make it, it looks nothing like any of their others that I'm familiar with and the track wasn't released as a single (it was written for the game).
- jamal-kumar 5y agoYeah that's not FSOL hahaha. I mean the music is but that vid is so obviously not the business. The only vid I ever knew of them having was this one, it was on a compilation VHS of music videos which had a pair of these prismatic glasses to wear while watching it so that every light source shimmered everywhere [1]. It looks like there's some more official ones they've done on search. The whole proper electronic music scene was too busy throwing parties to do music videos. I think that was more of a eurodance thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfWMv8Y1V5E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfWMv8Y1V5E
- crtasm 5y agoWow - I've never seen this video before, I wonder if they had input on the visuals or if it was left to the compilation creator. Here's the full tape https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XO3rLAs5Ee4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XO3rLAs5Ee4 https://archive.org/details/futureshock3vhs https://archive.org/details/futureshock3vhs Seeing Lifeforms on TV is my earliest memory of a CGI music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDSDeyfYJ5M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDSDeyfYJ5M then they did videos for Cascade, Amoeba, Snake Hips pt 1+2, Smokin Japanese Babe, My Kingdom, We Have Explosive, maybe more. I think most electronic tracks that charted in the 90s got a video? At least in the latter half.
- hsbauauvhabzb 5y agoI never played wipeout but Tony hawks pro skater 1/2/3 had equally eye opening soundtracks for me in punk / rock / hip hop. I was always interested in EDM so now I feel like I missed out but will listen to it today at least!
- oneepic 5y agoIf you stopped at 3, I suggest checking out the soundtracks for THPS 4, Underground 1 and Underground 2.
- hsbauauvhabzb 5y agoI didn’t really feel thps4, but I’ll try again. The tony hawks 1/2 remaster also has some good new tracks also.
- max_entropy 5y agoDon't forget CoLD SToRAGE (Tim Wright)[1] He did the actual in-game music of Wipeout and the non-Playstation versions of Wipeout 2097. [1]http://www.coldstorage.org.uk/ http://www.coldstorage.org.uk/