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Thanks for that, never occurred to me to look for game soundtracks on Spotify until now, https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3E6gcAU0fyq74s3oUomwfo?si=...

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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 lane! :)

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 ;)

Thanks for that link! I just converted it to an Apple Music playlist as well: https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/wipeout-soundtracks-1995...

Thank you!

Thanks for that! I know what’s going on loop for the next few days (at least). Already had a fair few in my library but having the collection there as a playlist is awesome.

I don’t know this game at all, but oh god this soundtrack is amazing! Listened to the first 3 songs so far. Thanks for sharing.

How did they fit so many songs on the 1990s media?

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?

The Spotify link is a compilation of all Wipeout soundtracks, not just the first one.

Here's a Youtube link to the original game's soundtrack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmkdRG7MQm4

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

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.

Oh, I didn't know that! I just knew that you could boot the PS1 without a disc and then insert game discs to listen to their soundtracks (at least with some games).

Was this one of the playstation games where the soundtrack was something you could actually listen to if you put it in a CD player? I remember final fantasy 7 was like that

I have Hotline Miami's soundtrack favourited for a specific stretch of highway.

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