Wipeout XL (album)
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wipE'out" 2097 The Soundtrack (wipE'out" XL in the US) is a soundtrack album of various British and other European electronica
, Big beat
and techno
artists from the British video game of the same name, released in 1996.
, released for Sony
PlayStation
on 30 September 1996, was the sequel to wipE'out"
, one of the first video games to incorporate electronic music by popular artists into the game. The audio tracks on the video game disc were red book audio
and could be played in any CD player by simply skipping the first track, which held the actual game data.
The soundtrack album and the actual soundtrack of the video game do not contain the same collections of music. CoLD SToRAGE
supplied several tracks for the game, the Chemical Brothers produced "Dust Up Beats" and Future Sound of London produced "Landmass", none of which were included on the soundtrack album. Conversely, Photek
's "Titan", the Chemical Brothers' "Leave Home", and the tracks by Daft Punk
, Source Direct
, Orbital
, and Leftfield
did not appear in the game itself.
The artwork for the album was made by The Designers Republic
in their typical futuristic style, in line with the artwork of the game and its future setting.
The album spawned one single, "Atom Bomb" by Fluke
with similarly designed artwork by tDR.
Virgin (UK)
℗ 1996 Virgin.
℗ 1996 Virgin Records (UK)
Licensed courtesy of Virgin (UK) / Astralwerks
℗ 1995 Virgin (UK)
Virgin (UK)
℗ 1996 Virgin.
℗ 1996 Virgin Records (UK)
Sony Music Publishing. ℗ 1996 London
Licensed courtesy of Virgin Records M62/BMG Music Publishing/MCA Music Ltd. ℗ 1995 Virgin Records Ltd
Electronica
Electronica includes a wide range of contemporary electronic music designed for a wide range of uses, including foreground listening, some forms of dancing, and background music for other activities; however, unlike electronic dance music, it is not specifically made for dancing...
, Big beat
Big beat
Big beat is a term employed since the mid-1990s by the British music press to describe much of the music by artists such as The Prodigy, Fatboy Slim, The Chemical Brothers, The Crystal Method, and Propellerheads typically driven by heavy breakbeats and synthesizer-generated loops and patterns in...
and 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...
artists from the British video game of the same name, released in 1996.
The album
wipE'out" 2097Wipeout 2097
Track listing Saturn/Windows versions * CoLD SToRAGE: "Canada"* CoLD SToRAGE: "Body in Motion"* CoLD SToRAGE: "Kinkong"* CoLD SToRAGE: "Plasticity"* CoLD SToRAGE: "Messij Xtnd"* CoLD SToRAGE: "Tenation"* CoLD SToRAGE: "Surgeon"...
, released for Sony
Sony
, commonly referred to as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan and the world's fifth largest media conglomerate measured by revenues....
PlayStation
PlayStation
The is a 32-bit fifth-generation video game console first released by Sony Computer Entertainment in Japan on December 3, .The PlayStation was the first of the PlayStation series of consoles and handheld game devices. The PlayStation 2 was the console's successor in 2000...
on 30 September 1996, was the sequel to wipE'out"
Wipeout (video game)
Wipeout is the first in a series of futuristic racing video games developed and published by Psygnosis. It was originally released in 1995 for Sony PlayStation and PCs running MS-DOS, and in 1996 for Sega Saturn...
, one of the first video games to incorporate electronic music by popular artists into the game. The audio tracks on the video game disc were red book audio
Red Book (audio CD standard)
Red Book is the standard for audio CDs . It is named after one of the Rainbow Books, a series of books that contain the technical specifications for all CD and CD-ROM formats.The first edition of the Red Book was released in 1980 by Philips and Sony; it was adopted by the Digital Audio Disc...
and could be played in any CD player by simply skipping the first track, which held the actual game data.
The soundtrack album and the actual soundtrack of the video game do not contain the same collections of music. CoLD SToRAGE
Cold storage
Cold storage may refer to:* A form of refrigerated storage* Cold Storage, a musician also known as Tim Wright * Cold Storage , a supermarket found in Singapore and Malaysia* COLD...
supplied several tracks for the game, the Chemical Brothers produced "Dust Up Beats" and Future Sound of London produced "Landmass", none of which were included on the soundtrack album. Conversely, Photek
Photek
Photek is Rupert Parkes , a Los Angeles-based British record producer and DJ. He joined the drum and bass scene relatively early , and is still one of its most respected players...
's "Titan", the Chemical Brothers' "Leave Home", and the tracks by Daft Punk
Daft Punk
Daft Punk are an electronic music duo consisting of French musicians Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter . Daft Punk reached significant popularity in the late 1990s house movement in France and met with continued success in the years following, combining elements of house with synthpop...
, Source Direct
Source Direct
Source Direct is a drum and bass producer team from St Albans in the United Kingdom, initially consisting of Phil Aslett and Jim Baker. Source Direct are often compared with ambient drum and bass artists such as LTJ Bukem and other Good Looking Records producers, but their work displays a much more...
, Orbital
Orbital (band)
Orbital are a British electronic dance music duo from Sevenoaks, England consisting of brothers Phil and Paul Hartnoll. Their career initially ran from 1989 until 2004, but in 2009 they announced that they would be reforming and headlining The Big Chill, in addition to a number of other live shows...
, and Leftfield
Leftfield
Leftfield are a British duo of electronica artists and record producers, namely Paul Daley and Neil Barnes, who formed in 1990 in London, England...
did not appear in the game itself.
The artwork for the album was made by The Designers Republic
The Designers Republic
The Designers Republic was a graphic design studio, founded on 14 July 1986 by Ian Anderson, and based in Sheffield, England. It was known for its anti-establishment aesthetics, while simultaneously embracing brash consumerism and the uniform style of corporate brands, such as Orange and Coca-Cola...
in their typical futuristic style, in line with the artwork of the game and its future setting.
The album spawned one single, "Atom Bomb" by Fluke
Fluke (band)
Fluke are an English electronic music group formed in the late 1980s by Mike Bryant, Jon Fugler and Mike Tournier with Julian Nugent as the band's manager...
with similarly designed artwork by tDR.
Track listing
Production
- Artwork, packaging and disc itself designed by The Designers RepublicThe Designers RepublicThe Designers Republic was a graphic design studio, founded on 14 July 1986 by Ian Anderson, and based in Sheffield, England. It was known for its anti-establishment aesthetics, while simultaneously embracing brash consumerism and the uniform style of corporate brands, such as Orange and Coca-Cola...
. - 01) Produced at Earthbeat Studios, London. Taken from the Virgin/Astralwerks album 'Dead Cities'
Virgin (UK)
℗ 1996 Virgin.
- 2) Licensed courtesy of Virgin Records / Circa.
℗ 1996 Virgin Records (UK)
- 3) Taken from the London EP 'Loops of Fury' licensed courtesy of Virgin. ℗ 1996 Virgin (UK)
- 4) Licensed courtesy of Virgin (UK). ℗ 1996 Virgin
- 5) Licensed courtesy of Virgin / Astralwerks. ℗ 1996 Virgin (UK)
- 6) Taken from the album 'Exit Planet Dust'
Licensed courtesy of Virgin (UK) / Astralwerks
℗ 1995 Virgin (UK)
- 7) Produced at Earthbeat Studios, London. Taken from the Virgin/Astralwerks album 'Dead Cities'
Virgin (UK)
℗ 1996 Virgin.
- 8) ℗ 1996 XL Recordings / Maverick Records / Mute Records
- 9) Licensed courtesy of Virgin Records / Circa.
℗ 1996 Virgin Records (UK)
- 10) Taken from the single "Da Funk", published by Soma / Virgin ℗ 1996 Virgin
- 11) Licenced, Published by Virgin / Astralwerks 1996
- 12) Licensed courtesy of Virgin / Astralwerks. ℗ 1996 Virgin (UK)
- 13) Licensed courtesy of Polygram Licensing Division
Sony Music Publishing. ℗ 1996 London
- 14) Taken from the EP "Afro-Left" which is from the 1995 album 'Leftism'
Licensed courtesy of Virgin Records M62/BMG Music Publishing/MCA Music Ltd. ℗ 1995 Virgin Records Ltd
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