Mortal Kombat: The Album is an album by The Immortals (Maurice Engelen aka Praga Khan

Praga Khan

Praga Khan is a Belgian techno musician, primarily in the new beat style.-Overview:Praga Khan is one of the pioneers of the new beat / acid house / rave sound, and has contributed to the theatrical scene with his musical collaborations in The Next Dimension and Code Red.In the late 1980s, he...

 and Oliver Adams best known for their work on the Techno/Industrial

Industrial music

Industrial music is a style of experimental music that draws on transgressive and provocative themes. The term was coined in the mid-1970s with the founding of Industrial Records by the band Throbbing Gristle, and the creation of the slogan "industrial music for industrial people". In general, the...

 band Lords of Acid

Lords of Acid

Lords of Acid is a Belgian-American post-industrial/techno band, led by musician Praga Khan. They debuted with the controversial new beat single "I Sit on Acid" in 1988...

), released in 1994 to accompany the home versions of the video game Mortal Kombat

Mortal Kombat (video game)

Mortal Kombat is a 1992 fighting-game developed and published by Midway for arcades. In 1993, home versions were released by Acclaim Entertainment. Released in the Fall of 1994, the Microsoft Windows 3.1x version was released by Activision Interactive. It is the first title in the Mortal Kombat...

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Album information

The album featured a techno

Techno

Techno is a form of electronic dance music that emerged in Detroit, Michigan in the United States during the mid to late 1980s. The first recorded use of the word techno, in reference to a genre of music, was in 1988...

 song for each of the 7 playable characters, as well as Goro, along with two additional tracks. Track 5, "Techno Syndrome (Mortal Kombat)," dates back to 1993 when it was released as a single; the year when the game was released for consoles

Video game console

A video game console is an interactive entertainment computer or customized computer system that produces a video display signal which can be used with a display device to display a video game...

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"Techno Syndrome" (with its signature scream of "Mortal Kombat!") has subsequently become famous as "the Mortal Kombat theme song" because of its use in the 1995 film

Mortal Kombat (film)

Mortal Kombat is a 1995 American action and adventure film directed by Paul Anderson. Based on the Mortal Kombat series of fighting games, the film was the first part of the Mortal Kombat film series...

, and remixed versions of the song continue to be associated with the Mortal Kombat

Mortal Kombat (series)

Mortal Kombat, commonly abbreviated MK, is a science fantasy series of fighting games created by Ed Boon and John Tobias. The first four renditions and their updates were developed by Midway Games and initially released on arcade machines. The arcade titles were later picked up by Acclaim...

franchise. The "Hypnotic House (Mortal Kombat)" was used as an intro in the Mortal Kombat Sega CD. "Techno Syndrome" is also a hidden song featured in the Sega CD version of Mortal Kombat, when one chooses to enter the "soundtrack" mode at the Sega CD intro screen. It can also be accessed by putting the CD in a CD player and selecting track 17. The album peaked at #16 on the Billboard Top Heatseekers in the United States

United States

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Track listing

All songs written by Maurice Engelen and Oliver Adams except as noted.

1. "Johnny Cage
   Johnny Cage
   Johnny Cage, whose real name is John Carlton, is a video game character from the Mortal Kombat fighting game series. Cage is portrayed as a film actor who enters the game's tournament, and provides the comic relief of the franchise....
   
    (Prepare Yourself)"
2. "Kano (Use Your Might)"
3. "Sub-Zero
   Sub-Zero (Mortal Kombat)
   Sub-Zero is the name given to two video game characters from the Mortal Kombat series. The older Sub-Zero first appeared in the first Mortal Kombat game, being replaced by his younger brother in Mortal Kombat II and the subsequent games...
   
    (Chinese Ninja Warrior)"
4. "Liu Kang
   Liu Kang
   Liu Kang is a video game character in the Mortal Kombat fighting game series. First appearing in the series' first title, Liu Kang is portrayed as a Shaolin monk who enters the Mortal Kombat tournament to save his world, Earthrealm, from being destroyed due to having lost nine consecutive...
   
    (Born In China)"
5. "Techno Syndrome (Mortal Kombat)" - written by Oliver Adams
6. "Scorpion
   Scorpion (Mortal Kombat)
   Scorpion is a recurring player and boss character in the Mortal Kombat fighting game series. He has been a playable character in all the games, with the exception of the original version of Mortal Kombat 3.-In video games:...
   
    (Lost Soul Bent On Revenge)"
7. "Sonya
   Sonya Blade
   Sonya Blade is a player character from the Mortal Kombat series. She is portrayed in the games as an officer of the United States Special Forces.-In video games:...
   
    (Go Go Go)"
8. "Rayden
   Raiden (Mortal Kombat)
   Raiden is a player character in the Mortal Kombat fighting game series. Raiden, also known as Lord Raiden, is a thunder god of the Mortal Kombat universe and protector of Earthrealm. He commands many supernatural abilities such as the ability to teleport, control over lightning, and flight...
   
    (Eternal Life)"
9. "Goro (The Outworld Prince)"
10. "Hypnotic House (Mortal Kombat)"

Reception

In 2010, 4thletter! ranked it as fourth on the list of "The Top Ten Most Ridiculous Things to Come Out of Mortal Kombat". In 2011, 1UP.com

1UP.com

1UP.com is a video game website owned by IGN Entertainment, a division of News Corporation. Previously, the site was owned by Ziff Davis before being sold to UGO Entertainment in 2009....

featured it in the article "The Top Ten Times Mortal Kombat Went Wrong", especially criticizing "Techno Syndrome" for its continous popularity.