Nine tracks of pure 90s arcade adrenaline from a game that technically never came out. Vertexer was Taito's cancelled F-Zero-style racer from 1993, and ZUNTATA's Tamayo Kawamoto wrote the score like it was already a classic.
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"Race On" has that sprite-scaling era energy, all punchy synths and driving basslines that would've had you white-knuckling a motion cabinet. "Natural Course (Technical Navigation)" shifts into something more atmospheric, almost spacey.
The whole thing clocks in at like twelve minutes but it's so dense. Kawamoto also did RayStorm and Night Striker, so you know the pedigree. If you love ZUNTATA's golden-era arcade sound, this ghost of a soundtrack absolutely deserves your time.