wipE'out" - The Zero Gravity Soundtrack

The soundtrack for the 1995 video game wipE'out'', composed by Welsh musician Tim Wright, aka CoLD SToRAGE.

Triple LP version. 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.

Track Listing:
A1. wipE'out'' Intro
A2. Hakapik Murder
A3. Messij
A4. Canada
A5. Tenation
B1. DOH-T
B2. Trancevaal
B3. Surgeon
B4. Cairodrome
C1. Body in Motion
C2. Cardinal Dancer
C3. Cold Comfort
C4. Kinkong
D1. Operatique
D2. Plasticity
D3. Messij Extended
D4. Argon
D5. Phloem
D6. Xenon
D7. Xylem
E1. wipE'out'' Intro (µ-Ziq Remix)
E2. DOH-T (Wordcolour Remix)
E3. Xylem (Brainwaltzera Remix)
E4. Canada (James Shinra Remix)
F1. Messij (Kode9 Remix)
F2. Trancevaal (Simo Cell Remix)
F3. Cairodrome (Surgeons Girl Remix)
F4. Messij (Datassette Remix)