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Dans la Matrice, Eric Hill a dit:

quoted 5 lines I just installed the Williams Digital Arcade and realized that the sounds on

> > I just installed the Williams Digital Arcade and realized that the sounds on > these machines had quite a strong impact on me as a kid. Defender! Joust! > Robotron! Chock full of beeps, burbles and scritches to keep those young > ears occupied. Was Ryuichi Sakamoto a tester in the 70's?

In the early days, the sound chips on arcade machines were analog. Sampling was used only for voices (and it was a novelty too). Stuff like Curtis electromusic chips or yamaha were usually used. Later, yamaha got a huge chunk of the market with it's fm chips (digital), and that's when they started making rock soundtracks :( On a related subject, the best track i've heard for a video game is definitely Wipe Out (Psygnosis). Note that the game and the soundtrack are available independently, but the UK versions of both are much better than their US/Canada counterpart, something that i dont think was mentionned on this list. I bought the US/Canada version of the game and quickly noticed that the Chemical brothers, Orbital and Leftfield tracks were absent. I promptly sold it and am awaiting the UK version any day now (you'll need a TV that can dig PAL if you want to play it however). One positive point for techno music is that Wipe Out is the best selling title for the Sony Playstation (over 300000 sold in a month) and that all the reviews gave high marks for the music. Ciao, -- Francois Dion (IdMEDIA) [> Email: francois@hyperreal.com <] ' [> C.P. 278, St-Lambert, QC, Canada, J4P 2N8 <] [> Raving Up North Ezine: run-request@hyperreal.com, subject: help <]

Francois Dion said once upon a time:

quoted 3 lines One positive point for techno music is that Wipe Out is the best

>One positive point for techno music is that Wipe Out is the best >selling title for the Sony Playstation (over 300000 sold in a month) >and that all the reviews gave high marks for the music.

Anyone know who composed the inhouse tracks and whether they have done anything else?

Dans la Matrice, Pete Ashdown a dit:

quoted 5 lines Francois Dion said once upon a time:

> > Francois Dion said once upon a time: > >and that all the reviews gave high marks for the music. > Anyone know who composed the inhouse tracks and whether they have done > anything else?

The credits at the end say Cold Storage (exact typo: CoLD SToRAGE). A call to psygnosis PR dept would probably get more info. BTW, the wipeout album playlist (at least the uk version) is: afro ride - leftfield chemical beats - chemical brothers blue monday - new order age of love - age of love wipeout (petrol) - orbital one love - prodigy la tristesse duera - manic street preachers when - sunscream good enough - B.B. (with angie brown) circus bells - robert armani captain dread - dreadzone transamazonia - the shamen So, none from cold storage. Why, i have no idea. Also, i have an interesting quote from Glen O'Connell, PR for Sony Interactive: 'Having been impressed with the concept'... 'orbital decided to go into the studio and record a specific track for the game'...'Once they were signed up for the game, we decided to continue to also push for Leftfield and The chemical brothers, who were on our original list of _the cooler bands_ around we tought would be suitable for the style and continuity we wanted to achieve with Wipeout.' Oh and he said that Tim Wright (Cold storage) would probably come up with an album sometime soon since they got all the positive reviews of the soundtrack. Ciao, -- Francois Dion (IdMEDIA) [> Email: francois@hyperreal.com <] ' [> C.P. 278, St-Lambert, QC, Canada, J4P 2N8 <] [> Raving Up North Ezine: run-request@hyperreal.com, subject: help <]

Francois Dion said once upon a time:

quoted 44 lines Dans la Matrice, Pete Ashdown a dit:

> >Dans la Matrice, Pete Ashdown a dit: >> >> Francois Dion said once upon a time: >> >and that all the reviews gave high marks for the music. >> Anyone know who composed the inhouse tracks and whether they have done >> anything else? > >The credits at the end say Cold Storage (exact typo: CoLD SToRAGE). A call >to psygnosis PR dept would probably get more info. > > >BTW, the wipeout album playlist (at least the uk version) is: >afro ride - leftfield >chemical beats - chemical brothers >blue monday - new order >age of love - age of love >wipeout (petrol) - orbital >one love - prodigy >la tristesse duera - manic street preachers >when - sunscream >good enough - B.B. (with angie brown) >circus bells - robert armani >captain dread - dreadzone >transamazonia - the shamen > >So, none from cold storage. Why, i have no idea. Also, i have an interesting >quote from Glen O'Connell, PR for Sony Interactive: >'Having been impressed with the concept'... 'orbital decided to go into >the studio and record a specific track for the game'...'Once they were >signed up for the game, we decided to continue to also push for >Leftfield and The chemical brothers, who were on our original list >of _the cooler bands_ around we tought would be suitable for the style >and continuity we wanted to achieve with Wipeout.' > >Oh and he said that Tim Wright (Cold storage) would probably come up >with an album sometime soon since they got all the positive reviews of >the soundtrack. >Ciao, >-- >Francois Dion (IdMEDIA) [> Email: francois@hyperreal.com <] > ' [> C.P. 278, St-Lambert, QC, Canada, J4P 2N8 <] > [> Raving Up North Ezine: run-request@hyperreal.com, subject: help <] >

quoted 8 lines Francois Dion said once upon a time:

> Francois Dion said once upon a time: > > >One positive point for techno music is that Wipe Out is the best > >selling title for the Sony Playstation (over 300000 sold in a month) > >and that all the reviews gave high marks for the music. > > Anyone know who composed the inhouse tracks and whether they have done > anything else?

I may be mistaken (having not heard the game music), but I seem to remember that the track is by the brothers Hartnoll, and was perhaps the track which has appeared separately under the name P.E.T.R.O.L. as i said, just a vague rememberance.... Jeff Davis <pHlow> ____--~~~~~~vvvv~~~~ oooooo 812.831.7846 jjdavis@xnet.com____---- ( ( ( vvvv ~~~~~~ooooooooooooo ___----( ( \ \ \ \ \ vvv oooooooooooooooooooooooooo ____---- ( \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ http://www.xnet.com/~jjdavis/

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quoted 6 lines Anyone know who composed the inhouse tracks and whether they have done

>> Anyone know who composed the inhouse tracks and whether they have done >> anything else? > >I may be mistaken (having not heard the game music), but I seem to >remember that the track is by the brothers Hartnoll, and was perhaps the >track which has appeared separately under the name P.E.T.R.O.L.

There is one Orbital track on the UK version of the game, yes, which also features one track each from the Chemical Brothers and Leftfield. The question was about the other eight or so tracks, which were composed inhouse at Psygnosis. C. -- cspot@hyperreal.com (Chris.Hilker) "I feel like I'm being electrocuted."