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01. Cold Storage - wipE'out'' Intro
02. Cold Storage - Hakapik Murder
03. Cold Storage - Messij
04. Cold Storage - Canada
05. Cold Storage - Tenation
06. Cold Storage - DOH-T
07. Cold Storage - Trancevaal
08. Cold Storage - Surgeon
09. Cold Storage - Cairodrome
10. Cold Storage - Body in Motion
11. Cold Storage - Cardinal Dancer
12. Cold Storage - Cold Comfort
13. Cold Storage - Kinkong
14. Cold Storage - Operatique
15. Cold Storage - Plasticity
16. Cold Storage - Messij Extended
17. Cold Storage - Argon
18. Cold Storage - Phloem
19. Cold Storage - Xenon
20. Cold Storage - Xylem
21. Cold Storage - wipE'out'' Intro (µ-Ziq Remix)
22. Cold Storage - DOH-T (Wordcolour Remix)
23. Cold Storage - Xylem (Brainwaltzera Remix)
24. Cold Storage - Canada (James Shinra Remix)
25. Cold Storage - Messij (Kode9 Remix)
26. Cold Storage - Trancevaal (Simo Cell Remix)
27. Cold Storage - Cairodrome (Surgeons Girl Remix)
28. Cold Storage - Messij (Datassette Remix)
ARTIST
TITLE
wipE'out" - The Zero Gravity Soundtrack
FORMAT
2CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
LPS PS014CD LPS PS014CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
1/19/2024

Back in the 1990s, video games were still largely seen as nerdy: fun, sure, but basically a guilty pleasure that you'd soon grow out of. The release in 1995 of wipE'out'', a lightning-fast, razor-sharp, futuristic racing game that helped to launch the PlayStation in Europe and North America, changed all that. This was a game that looked and sounded both adult and cool, the kind of game you would put on display in your living room, rather than hide away under your bed. Key to this was the fact that wipE'out'' borrowed unashamedly from the clubbing experience and electronic music, in a way that put it at the heart of progressive mid '90s culture. wipE′out′′ also sounded like a new rave dream. The European version of the game included music from The Chemical Brothers, Leftfield, and Orbital, the kind of fashionable game syncs that were almost unheard of at the time. Equally striking was the game's original music, which came from Welsh musician Tim Wright, aka CoLD SToRAGE, by this point already a veteran in the video games world, having worked on the music for Amiga titles such as Lemmings and Shadow of the Beast 2. His music for wipE′out′′ was, if anything, even more extreme than the big-name syncs, mixing the accelerated beats of drum and bass with the pure synth rush of trance to make music that sounded as breathlessly exciting as playing the game felt. These tracks were burned into the brains of millions of gamers; the soundtrack to a generation of late-night anti-gravity racing, as the sun gingerly rose beyond the curtains. But they haven't, perhaps, quite got the respect they deserve, something that this release will address. Featuring remixes by µ-Ziq, Wordcolour, Brainwaltzera, James Shinra, Kode9, Simo Cell, Surgeons Girl, Datassette.