That N64 sound chip doing tropical house before tropical house existed. Kazumi Totaka's Wave Race 64 soundtrack is pure late-90s summer compressed into cartridge audio. "Sunny Beach" rides this bouncy, almost reggae-adjacent groove that gets stuck in your head for days, and "Twilight City" shifts into night-cruise mode with a bassline that has no business being that smooth on 1997 hardware.
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"Glacier Coast" goes cold and atmospheric. Total mood shift. The 1996 prototype versions of tracks are included too, and comparing them to the finals shows how much polish went into the last stretch. If you ever rented this game as a kid and can still hear the water splashing, the music is why those memories stuck.