Late-night Yokohama street racing with live saxophone is a combination nobody asked for but everyone needed. Noriko Matsueda and Takahito Eguchi built Racing Lagoon's soundtrack around jazz-techno fusion that sounds like Squaresoft tried to score an Initial D spinoff at a smoky jazz club.
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"Bay Lagoon Racing" hits you with breakbeats and wailing sax that genuinely makes PS1 racing feel cinematic. The character themes shift moods beautifully. "Quiet Storm" pulls back into something contemplative before a boss battle slams the tempo up again.
The fact that this never left Japan is criminal. If you love 90s Square but wish they'd gone weirder, this two-disc set proves they absolutely did.