R4: Ridge Racer Type 4 Direct Audio is the soundtrack to the video game Ridge Racer Type 4, released in 1999 by Namco

Namco

is a Japanese corporation best known as a former video game developer and publisher. Following a merger with Bandai in September 2005, the two companies' game production assets were spun off into Namco Bandai Games on March 31, 2006. Namco Ltd. was re-established to continue domestic operation of...

. It was the second game soundtrack to be released in the Ridge Racer series and was composed in 1998 by the Namco Consumer Software Sound Team. The new team was a change from the usual dance/club music themes that were supplied by Namco's old sound team, Sampling Masters, who worked on the first three instalments: Ridge Racer

Ridge Racer

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, Ridge Racer 2

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, and Rage Racer

Rage Racer

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R4 instead explored music styles encompassing Funk

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, Breakbeat

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, Acid Jazz

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 and Neo-Soul mixed with traditional Namco synth melodies.

The games' opening track Ridge Racer (One More Win) features the American

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 singer Kimara Lovelace

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. The King Street Sounds

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 label also provided about 20 of the over 40 songs for Ridge Racer 7

Ridge Racer 7

Ridge Racer 7 is the seventh console installment in the Ridge Racer series of racing games, released on PlayStation 3. The game has around 40 cars, many of which return from Ridge Racer 6 and the PSP incarnations of the game. There are also 22 courses, available in forward, reverse and mirror mode....

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Track listing

1. Urban Fragments
2. Turn the Page
3. On Your Way
4. Garage Talk
5. Spiral Ahead
6. Pearl Blue Soul
7. Naked Glow
8. Your Vibe
9. Lucid Rhythms
10. Thru
11. Silhouette Dance
12. Burnin Rubber
13. Revlimit Funk
14. Quiet Curves
15. Motor Species
16. Objective
17. Move Me
18. Ride
19. Movin in Circles
20. Parade
21. Epilogue
22. Ridge Racer (One More Win) (Feat. Kimara Lovelace
    Kimara Lovelace
    Kimara Lovelace is a female dance music vocalist who placed three songs in the Top 10 of the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in the late nineties. "Circles" spent a week at #1 in 1998...
    
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23. Ready to Roll!
24. Party's Over
25. Eat'em Up!