Test Drive 5 had such a good soundtrack. It was the perfect mix of electronic and alternative. Junkie XL and Pitchshifter were a revelation to me then.
No surprise the crazy skills of Soichi Terada are behind this. Got to see him DJ/perform at a New Year’s show a few years back in Tokyo. Certainly was a good time.
The original PS Ridge Racer game code loaded into memory in its entirety so once it had started you could open the disc cover and put any audio CD you liked in. The tracks would start in the wrong place because it used the locations of the original tracks, but it meant that I spent a lot of time powersliding around to Timeless by Goldie (which was the only drum & bass I had on CD at the time).
FSOL’s We Have Explosive from the Wipeout 2097 soundtrack was one of my favourites from the PS1. Still have the soundtrack CD somewhere I think.
It also has Photek, Source Direct, Underworld, Leftfield, Fluke, the Chems, Orbital and the Prodigy - a 90s UK electronica greatest hits reel (at least, the ones that were signed to a Sony label at some point).
Yeah I absolutely loved (still do!) this track, and the Photek track on there.
And the whole soundtrack, it’s amazing and blew my mind as a teenager. I didn’t actually have a PlayStation but I borrowed the game from a friend just to listen to it on an audio CD player haha!
Was a supercool game too, the visual style etc. I don’t really play games any more but I have downloaded Wipeout 2097 onto my Mac and I think it still stands the test of time!
Someone else mentioned Gran Turismo, I remember taping the Rollo mix of the Cardigans off the intro of that round at a friends house haha. Cool track.