Funky wah-wah guitar ripping through a Hyper Neo Geo 64 racing cabinet. SNK's Off Beat Racer (also known as Xtreme Rally outside Japan) ran its 1998 arcade soundtrack through a genre blender, and the track names tell you exactly what you're getting.
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"Hong Kong Funk" is pure groove for the basic stage. "Descarga" pulls in Latin percussion for the intermediate course. "Paving Stone" switches up again for the advanced runs. Shinsekai Gakkyoku Zatsugidan composed the whole thing with vocalist Maria Thurman adding texture on top.
"Long Way" closes it out with this unexpectedly mellow ending theme. Fifteen tracks from one of SNK's last arcade racers. If you dig late-90s arcade soundtracks that actually took genre risks, this one's been sitting there waiting.