The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development

I recall the Wipeout 2097 soundtrack[1] blew me away as a kid.

I had heard some techno and eurodance was popular at the time, but the sounds coming out of the speaker at the store where the demo ran was on another level.

Bought the CD and listen to it every now and then, and Orbital's Petrol track is still up there on my top 100 list.

There was something raw, and edge, that seems lost in so much electronic music these days.

[1]: https://www.discogs.com/release/6385-Various-Wipeout-2097-Th...

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I think this was also on the Mortal Kombat movie OST (another hidden gem from the 90's; not the movie, the soundtrack).

The edginess and rawness might be the limitations of the equipment used and the people using it, but for me the edge was that the music it wasn’t pigeonholed into different genres at the time. It was all working together like a Weatherall set.

CoLD SToRAGE released a new edition of the Wipeout soundtrack; vinyl still available, plenty of remixes onboard.

https://coldstorage.bandcamp.com/album/wipeout-the-zero-grav...

Did you ever listen to the More Kombat follow on? Most of the tracks were forgettable, but there was that one track Space Man by Babylon Zoo that still runs through my head every now and again.

The "Spaceman" track was used in a Levi's ad[1] which used the intro. Then everyone went out and bought the single, and rocketed it up the charts in a lot of countries. At the time there was much disappointment that the rest of the song was not like that intro.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTIrUXYLtpA