The original Tekken soundtrack hits like raw 90s arcade energy compressed into a PS1 disc. Namco's sound team went location by location and gave every stage its own identity, which was wild for a 1995 fighter. Chicago USA has this gritty industrial groove that just locks in when you're trading punches, and then Fiji flips the whole mood with something almost tropical and laid back.
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Kyoto leans into traditional Japanese instrumentation over that early CD-quality crunch. The PS versions of each track are slightly different mixes too, so you're basically getting two soundtracks. If you played Tekken 1 in arcades and never went back to the music, you're missing out on how much personality these stages had.