Pure turn-of-the-millennium electronic heat. Ridge Racer V's soundtrack, produced by Namco's in-house crew, sounds like a nightclub built inside an arcade cabinet. "Euphoria" lives up to its name with trance pads that just keep climbing while you're drifting at impossible angles, and "SAMURAi ROCKET" slams breakbeats against synth stabs like it has something to prove.
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Then there's "Electroglide," all cool filtered house that makes 3AM time trials feel cosmopolitan. The Mijk van Dijk remix of "Junx" adds a Berlin minimal touch that actually fits perfectly. Even the interlude tracks keep the energy circulating instead of killing it.
If you ever wondered what PS2 launch-window optimism sounded like, this is literally it.