REDWOOD CITY, CA. (EA music) -Fasten your seatbelts for the most intense ride of the year as EA redefines the sound of street racing with Need for
Speed Carbon. For this long-awaited new chapter in the top-selling franchise, EA Trax has created an international soundtrack of 30 diverse cuts that reflect the game's three distinct car classes; exotics, muscles and tuners. The riff-heavy power of such bands as Kyuss,
Eagles of Death Metal, UK's Metro Riots and Australia's
Wolfmother fuels the Muscle Cars. For the game's Japanese Tuner Cars, the soundtrack delivers a newly revitalized sub-genre of electronic music known as 'Electro' originally pioneered by
Gary Numan and personified by such artists as UK's Ladytron and Goldfrapp, Australia's The Presets, Japan's melody and Canada's Tiga. Exotic cars are represented by a mix of the new UK Grime scene with artists such as Lady Sovereign,
Roots Manuva and Sway, International Hip Hop from Pharrell, and Philadelphia's Spank Rock. And while the different crews may compete head-to-head, the three music genres combine to create what may be the most compelling and combustible game soundtrack of the year.
"Street racing is an international outlaw sport with a velocity all its own," said Steve Schnur, Worldwide Executive of Music and Marketing at EA. "Need for Speed Carbon takes a cinematically sonic approach to the sport's different personalities and the crews that rule it. We've spent close to a year working with artists and labels from around the world to ensure that not only does the music capture the true hardcore styles of the sport, it also pushes it forward with breakthrough new artists. By combining these genres, we've now taken the premier street racing simulation brand in the industry to an unstoppable new level."
The complete in-game soundtrack for Need for Speed Carbon includes:
Dynamite MC - Bounce
Dynamite MC - After Party
Eagles Of Death Metal - Don't Speak (I Came to Make A Bang!)
Ekstrak feat. Know-1 - Hard Drivers
Every Move A Picture - Signs Of Life
Gary Numan/Tubeway Army - Are 'Friends' Electric
Grandmaster Flash And The Furious Five - Scorpio
Goldfrapp - Ride A White Horse (Serge Santiago Remix)
Kyuss - Hurricane
Lady Sovereign - Luv Me Or Hate Me
Ladytron - Sugar (Jagz Kooner Remix)
Ladytron - Fighting In Built Up Areas
melody. - FEEL THE RUSH (Junkie XL Remix)
Metro Riots - Thee Small Faces
Part 2 feat. Fallacy - One Of Dem Days (Remix)
Pharrell feat. Lauren - Skateboard P Presents: Show You How To Hustle
Priestess - I Am The Night, Colour Me Black
Roots Manuva - No Love
Spank Rock - What It Look Like
Sway - Hype Boys
The Bronx - Around The Horn
The Presets - Steamworks
The Vacation - I'm No Good
Tiga - Good As Gold
Tigarah - Girl Fight (Mr. D Hyphy Mix)
Tomas Andersson - Washing Up (Tiga Remix)
Valient Thorr - Heatseeker
Vitalic - My Friend Dario
Wolfmother - Joker And The Thief
Yonderboi - People Always Talk About The Weather (Junkie XL Remix)
Developed in Vancouver, B.C. by EA Blackbox Need for Speed Carbon will be available on November 1, 2006 in North America and Europe. Need for Speed Carbon will be available for Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system, PlayStation(R)3 computer entertainment system, and Wii as well as the PlayStation(R)2 computer entertainment system, Xbox(R) videogame system from Microsoft, Nintendo GameCube, Nintendo DS, Game Boy(R) Advance, PSP (PlayStation Portable) handheld entertainment system, PC and mobile. More information can be found at www.needforspeed.com.
