Side A
Artist	Song
KCE Sound Team	FMA theme from "Silent Hill"
Peter Conelly	theme from "Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation"
Mutato Musika	Crash Dash (from "Crash Bandicoot 2")
Nuobo Uematsu	Liberi Fatali (FMA theme from "Final Fantasy 8")
Scott Branston	Tomb of Ramses (from "Powerslave")
Motoi Sakuraba	FMA theme from "Star Ocean"
Kenichiro Fukui	Warning (from "Einhander")
Stewart Copeland	Dry Canyon (from "Spyro the Dragon")
Burke Treischmann	Hollow Stairway (from "Pandemonium!")
Ryuki Sasai	FMA theme from "Bushido Blade 2"
Yoko Shimomura	The Omission Of The World (from "Parasite Eve")
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
DJ Sasha	Icaras (from "Wipeout 3")
Chuck E. Meyers, et al	Pacific Rim (from "Critical Depth")
Aoife Ni Fhearraigh	The Best Is Yet To Come (from "Metal Gear Solid")
David Nowlin & Greg Weber	Johnny No More (from "Rising Zan: Samurai Gunman")
Isao Mizoguchi	Luna's Song (from "Lunar: Silver Star Story")
Nuobo Uematsu	main theme from "Final Fantasy 7"
Slumpussy	This Life (from "Grand Theft Auto")
Nathan McCree	Lara's Theme (from "Tomb Raider")
Aubrey Hodges	Plutonia (from "Final Doom")
Tsyoshi Sekito	Musashi March (from "Brave Fencer Musashi")
Capcom Sound Team	Cello Mood (from "Resident Evil")

Comment:

First off, this mix doesn't exist yet, primarily because my gear is broken and I can't mix anything. Plus, as the title suggests, this mix is comprised of original music composed for Sony Playstation games, and obtaining a clean copy of any of these tracks can be tricky. Since Playstation games are CD-ROM based, sometimes the audio tracks for a game are programmed separately from the actual game data. They call this "redbooked" audio, and it means that you can throw your Playstation CD-ROM into your compact disc player, and you can access all the different audio tracks. However, not all game designers redbook their audio, so some of these tracks can only be captured thru playing the game itself. Sometimes, the Japanese companies will actually publish soundtracks for these games. I know that there are at least four different versions of the Resident Evil soundtracks. Anyway, this is something I've been thinking about doing for a while, because as a gamer, I'm continually amazed at the kinds of music game designers come up with to accompany the action. The music composer for Final Fantasy 8, for example, took the trouble to write a four-minute piece for the opening sequence that calls for a full orchestra with choir. For a freakin' video game, for cripe's sake. I also think it's interesting how some of the music will counter or reflect the action of the game. Admittedly, a number of these games don't have track listings, so I had to guess or make up names for them. Some of the tracks are relatively short, so this may wind up being only a 46- or 60-minute mix, but so what? I encourage any othe gamers out there with superior collections than mine to create companion pieces to this mix. I'm sure there's tons more that I'm missing. By the way, for the uninitiated, "FMA" stands for "Full Motion Animation", which are the expensive, often lengthy computer generated graphics sequences designers like to use in games to fill up extra space on the disc...=]'

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