While the N64 often employed a mix to mono sound samples and MIDI instruments, Top Gear Rally’s musician Barry Leitch decided to keep the soundtrack distinctly old school. Rather than trying to emulate CD audio, he instead made a soundtrack exactly the same way you would for a 16-bit machine – he programmed in 8 bit samples that were produced live off of the hardware. This has meant emulation of Top Gear Rally’s music has never been accurate, it also makes it one of the most advanced cases of this traditional technique thanks to the number of samples available to Leitch from the hardware.

NOTE: This soundtrack will be added to, the US version’s Title Track will be added within the next month from 26/06/2016 as soon as I receive the cartridge.

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Streets of Rage is reknowned as one of SEGA’s strongest franchises, with some of the best music to have come out of their hardware. What is not as well known is that the first two titles saw a port to the Game Gear and Master System.

The music was converted by Yuzo Koshiro himself, with many of the original songs kept surprisingly close to the originals considering the hardware limitations. Even more interesting to note is that Streets of Rage GG’s soundtrack includes a track from Streets of Rage II!

This is a one-off, that will likely be followed by the second title only. This project is specifically for 16bit audio, however as Streets of Rage is such an iconic series it seemed a shame not to release the full soundtracks eventually.

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Renowned as one of the first times a computer was programmed to successfully sample a pop song, with the power of the Amiga’s sound chip. Even the Atari ST, which had been part used in the original song’s creation, was unable to perform the sampling of the original track with anywhere near as much accuracy, having to rely on synthesizing these sounds.

Anyone into 80s house music will recognise the song immediately, it’s “Megablast (Assault on Precinct 13)” by Bomb the Bass. Tim Simenon (Real name of artist Bomb the Bass) took samples from the Sly And The Family Stone track “You Can Make It If You Try”, with a theme inspired by the Splash Band track “The End (Disco Version) which was in itself inspired by the “Assault on Precinct 13” soundtrack.

David Whittaker took point on this soundtrack and did such a great job with the conversion that it blew away anyone who bought the title in 1989. Sampling is commonplace nowadays, but in the late 80s it was in its infancy and Xenon 2 Megablast earns it’s place in history at being one of the first games to perform these songs in-game with relative accuracy.

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One of Psygnosis’ final games before they were bought out by Sony (To make games such as Wipeout), this soundtrack is mini who’s-who of Amiga musicians and plays like a farewell by the company themselves.

That main theme is beautifully haunting, and really showcases the classical capabilities of the Amiga’s audio chips. The Amiga was filled with brilliant 80s/90s techno and rave music but these tunes give you a moment’s pause.

We hope you’ll enjoy the soundtrack.

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Silkworm has been released! The spiritual predecessor to the legendary SWIV! The music is by the amazing Barry Leitch (Top Gear series) and the game is arcade perfect. So get pumped for a serious war, sling on this tune and jump in your jeep/helicopter to get yourself in on the action!

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An unapologetic pinball smash, published by the same publishers as Pinball Dreams. This game was rated as the 13th Best Game of All Time by Amiga Power back in 1996, and saw a re-release on DOS in 1997 and then again in 1999.

There are six tracks this time, including the 90s house inspired title track.

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