Wipeout 2097: The Soundtrack
| Wipeout 2097 The Soundtrack | ||||
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| Soundtrack album by Various artists | ||||
| Released |
30 September 1996 (UK) 1 November 1996 (US) | |||
| Genre | Electronica, IDM, techno, acid house, drum and bass, big beat | |||
| Length | 84:01 | |||
| Label |
Virgin (UK) Astralwerks (U.S.) | |||
| Wipeout series soundtrack chronology | ||||
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| "CD" | ||||
 CD which features a face of a Designers Republic character from the game. |
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Wipeout 2097: The Soundtrack (Wipeout XL in the US) is a soundtrack album of various British and other European electronica, big beat and techno artists from the video game of the same name, released in 1996.
Album
Wipeout 2097, released for the Sony PlayStation on 30 September 1996 and the Sega Saturn on 18 September 1997, was the sequel to Wipeout, one of the first video games to incorporate electronic music by popular artists into the game. The audio tracks on the video game disc were red book audio and could be played in any CD player by simply skipping the first track, which held the actual game data.
The soundtrack album and the actual soundtrack of the video game do not contain the same collections of music. CoLD SToRAGE supplied several tracks for the game, the Chemical Brothers produced "Dust Up Beats" and Future Sound of London produced "Landmass", none of which were included on the soundtrack album. Conversely, Photek's "Titan", the Chemical Brothers' "Leave Home", and the tracks by Daft Punk, Source Direct, Orbital, and Leftfield did not appear in the game itself. The soundtrack album also includes Fluke's track "Atom Bomb" in its original single version, which is markedly different from the "Straight Six Instrumental Mix" featured in the PlayStation version.
The artwork for the album was made by The Designers Republic in their typical futuristic style, in line with the artwork of the game and its future setting.
The album spawned one single, "Atom Bomb" by Fluke with similarly designed artwork by tDR.
Track listing
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Performer | Length |
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| 1. | "We Have Explosive" (from Dead Cities, 1996) | Garry Cobain, Brian Dougans | The Future Sound of London | 6:14 |
| 2. | "Atom Bomb" (from Risotto, 1997) | Fluke | Fluke | 7:57 |
| 3. | "Loops of Fury" (from Loops of Fury, 1996) | Ed Simons, Tom Rowlands | The Chemical Brothers | 4:41 |
| 4. | "Tin There" (from Pearl's Girl, 1996) | Darren Emerson, Rick Smith | Underworld | 5:00 |
| 5. | "The Third Sequence" (from The Third Sequence / Titan, 1996) | Rupert Parkes | Photek | 4:48 |
| 6. | "Leave Home (Underworld Mix 1)" (from Leave Home, 1995) | Ed Simons, Tom Rowlands | The Chemical Brothers | 5:14 |
| 7. | "We Have Explosive (Herd Killing)" (from Dead Cities, 1996) | Garry Cobain, Brian Dougans | The Future Sound of London | 5:42 |
| 8. | "Firestarter (Instrumental)" (from Firestarter, 1996) | Liam Howlett, Keith Flint | The Prodigy | 4:39 |
| 9. | "V Six" | Fluke | Fluke | 5:19 |
| 10. | "Musique" (from Da Funk, 1996) | Thomas Bangalter, Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo | Daft Punk | 6:51 |
| 11. | "2097" | Phil Aslett, Jim Baker | Source Direct | 5:35 |
| 12. | "Titan" (from The Third Sequence / Titan, 1996) | Rupert Parkes | Photek | 5:58 |
| 13. | "P.E.T.R.O.L." (from In Sides, 1996) | P & P Hartnoll | Orbital | 5:49 |
| 14. | "Afro Ride" (from Afro-Left, 1995) | Neil Barnes, Paul Daley, Neil Cole | Leftfield | 4:24 |
Production
- Artwork, packaging and disc itself designed by The Designers Republic.
- 01) Produced at Earthbeat Studios, London. Taken from the Virgin/Astralwerks album 'Dead Cities'
Virgin (UK) ℗ 1996 Virgin.
- 2) Licensed courtesy of Virgin Records / c.
℗ 1996 Virgin Records (UK)
- 3) Taken from the London EP 'Loops of Fury' licensed courtesy of Virgin. ℗ 1996 Virgin (UK)
- 4) Licensed courtesy of Virgin (UK). ℗ 1996 Virgin
- 5) Licensed courtesy of Virgin / Astralwerks. ℗ 1996 Virgin (UK)
- 6) Taken from the album 'Exit Planet Dust'
Licensed courtesy of Virgin (UK) / Astralwerks ℗ 1995 Virgin (UK)
- 7) Produced at Earthbeat Studios, London. Taken from the Virgin/Astralwerks album 'Dead Cities'
Virgin (UK) ℗ 1996 Virgin.
- 8) ℗ 1996 XL Recordings / Maverick Records / Mute Records
- 9) Licensed courtesy of Virgin Records / c.
℗ 1996 Virgin Records (UK)
- 10) Taken from the single "Da Funk", published by Soma / Virgin ℗ 1996 Virgin
- 11) Licensed, Published by Virgin / Astralwerks 1996
- 12) Licensed courtesy of Virgin / Astralwerks. ℗ 1996 Virgin (UK)
- 13) Licensed courtesy of Polygram Licensing Division
Sony Music Publishing. ℗ 1996 London
- 14) Taken from the EP "Afro-Left" which is from the 1995 album 'Leftism'
Licensed courtesy of Virgin Records M62/BMG Music Publishing/MCA Music Ltd. ℗ 1995 Virgin Records Ltd