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The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development

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695 points atan2 | 1 comments | 13 Nov 24 18:43 UTC | HN request time: 0.213s | source
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magicalhippo ◴[13 Nov 24 21:32 UTC] No.42130227[source]▶
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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1. timc3 ◴[14 Nov 24 11:18 UTC] No.42135137[source]▶
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.