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Re: Wipeout (PSX and Windows Source)

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Post by protiex »

fb03 wrote: post #74
Ftuuky wrote: post #12

Me as a kid discovering Wipeout soundtrack was truly mind-bending: Photek, Future Sound of London, Prodigy, Chemical Brothers, Daft Punk, Orbital and so many other gems in one go. It was overwhelmingly cool!

I believe the Wipeout soundtrack was a introduction to 'real' electronic music to a lot of kids/teens at the time, including me. The instrumental version of Firestarter is forever embedded in my memories ;-)

It was really amazing how pervasive this music was at the turn of the century, it really was everywhere. Games like Wipeout re-introduced a generation that just missed the tail end of rave culture to Big beat, Trance and Drum & Bass and it really felt like a pivotal cultural moment with how accessible these genres were becoming in the late 90s.

Re: Wipeout (PSX and Windows Source)

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Post by Pxtl »

Ftuuky wrote: post #12

Me as a kid discovering Wipeout soundtrack was truly mind-bending: Photek, Future Sound of London, Prodigy, Chemical Brothers, Daft Punk, Orbital and so many other gems in one go. It was overwhelmingly cool!

IIRC that was WipeOut XL/2097 and 3 that had proper name-brand electronic music on it. The original one was all a guy called Cold Storage. Still excellent.

Re: Wipeout (PSX and Windows Source)

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Post by protiex »

TedDoesntTalk wrote: post #78
pvg wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The game shipped on a CD. What's more, after the game booted, you could replace the game CD in the Playstation with your own music CD and the game would play the music from your CD, apply the environmental sound effects, etc.

But the Spotify soundtrack that was linked is 5 hours 27 minutes. Even with poor mp3 encoding, some space for code and data, it seems like an awful lot for one CD. Maybe they just had song excerpts?

PSX game soundtracks tended to be less than an hour total runtime. The Wip3out (Wipeout 3) soundtrack was amazing too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFkpcgMuotY

Re: Wipeout (PSX and Windows Source)

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Post by Lammy »

Eduard wrote: post #51
Ftuuky wrote: post #12

Me as a kid discovering Wipeout soundtrack was truly mind-bending: Photek, Future Sound of London, Prodigy, Chemical Brothers, Daft Punk, Orbital and so many other gems in one go. It was overwhelmingly cool!

the in-house soundtrack from _Cold Storage_ is amazing as well. I love to listen to it to this day

And he's on Bandcamp! https://coldstorage.bandcamp.com/

Re: Wipeout (PSX and Windows Source)

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Post by pvg »

TedDoesntTalk wrote: post #78
pvg wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The game shipped on a CD. What's more, after the game booted, you could replace the game CD in the Playstation with your own music CD and the game would play the music from your CD, apply the environmental sound effects, etc.

But the Spotify soundtrack that was linked is 5 hours 27 minutes. Even with poor mp3 encoding, some space for code and data, it seems like an awful lot for one CD. Maybe they just had song excerpts?

Oh I see - yeah like the other comment says, it's music from the 8 zillion other wipeout games as well. The original PSX game just had a CD's worth of CD audio on it.

Re: Wipeout (PSX and Windows Source)

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Post by protiex »

joezydeco wrote: post #77
protiex wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This comment thread and all the music in that playlist has triggered a massive rush of nostalgia, thanks for linking! I've realised how formative all the design and music I consumed at the turn of the millennium was. Design wise: The Designers Republic, Praystation, We Work For Them. Music wise: Photek, Dieselboy, Sasha, The Chemical Brothers. It really was a unique time, thanks for taking me for a trip down memory l…

I'll still listen to a long Big Beat playlist when doing heavy coding. My go-to is still "Decksanddrumsandrockandroll" from Propellerheads.

Saved, thanks! For when you want to pretend that you're Neo in the original Matrix ;)

Re: Wipeout (PSX and Windows Source)

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Post by zumu »

joezydeco wrote: post #66
Ftuuky wrote: post #12

Me as a kid discovering Wipeout soundtrack was truly mind-bending: Photek, Future Sound of London, Prodigy, Chemical Brothers, Daft Punk, Orbital and so many other gems in one go. It was overwhelmingly cool!

I loved that soundtrack too. Fluke also used Wipeout imagery for their "Atom Bomb" video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHMzCpy0fXc

Wow the visual aesthetic of this video is almost exactly what I've been seeing the kids get into these days.

Re: Wipeout (PSX and Windows Source)

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Post by glouwbug »

Ftuuky wrote: post #12

Me as a kid discovering Wipeout soundtrack was truly mind-bending: Photek, Future Sound of London, Prodigy, Chemical Brothers, Daft Punk, Orbital and so many other gems in one go. It was overwhelmingly cool!

I loved how accurate FSOL's music videos were. They had iPhones, iPads, iWatches, google maps, windows surfaces, everything down to a modern day T. The following was uploaded 2007, but I wonder if it was shot or made even earlier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_ZB6jgJMS8

Re: Wipeout (PSX and Windows Source)

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Post by thefreeman »

suprjami wrote: post #79
merlinscholz wrote: post #36

Since the server seems to be down: https://web.archive.org/web/20220327115948/https://illusion....

Did anyone get a copy of the actual source file? Seems Internet Archive didn't.

Site is back up now, the download link goes to: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/937373217268572161/95...
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