EA Revs Up Street Racing Culture With Need for Speed Carbon Soundtrack

Business Wire, Sept 19, 2006

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. -- Fasten your seatbelts for the most intense ride of the year as EA redefines the sound of street racing with Need for Speed(TM) Carbon. For this long-awaited new chapter in the top-selling franchise, EA(TM) 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:

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Artist                                Song
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Dynamite MC                           Bounce
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Dynamite MC                           After Party
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Eagles Of Death Metal                 Don't Speak
                                      (I Came to Make A Bang!)
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Ekstrak feat. Know-1                  Hard Drivers
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Every Move A Picture                  Signs Of Life
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Gary Numan/Tubeway Army               Are 'Friends' Electric
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Grandmaster Flash And The Furious     Scorpio
 Five
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Goldfrapp                             Ride A White Horse
                                      (Serge Santiago Remix)
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Kyuss                                 Hurricane
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Lady Sovereign                        Luv Me Or Hate Me
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Ladytron                              Sugar (Jagz Kooner Remix)
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Ladytron                              Fighting In Built Up Areas
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melody.                               FEEL THE RUSH (Junkie XL Remix)
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Metro Riots                           Thee Small Faces
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Part 2 feat. Fallacy                  One Of Dem Days (Remix)
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Pharrell feat. Lauren                 Skateboard P Presents: Show You
                                      How To Hustle
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Priestess                             I Am The Night, Colour Me Black
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Roots Manuva                          No Love
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Spank Rock                            What It Look Like
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Sway                                  Hype Boys
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The Bronx                             Around The Horn
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The Presets                           Steamworks
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The Vacation                          I'm No Good
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Tiga                                  Good As Gold
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Tigarah                               Girl Fight (Mr. D Hyphy Mix)
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Tomas Andersson                       Washing Up (Tiga Remix)
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Valient Thorr                         Heatseeker
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Vitalic                               My Friend Dario
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Wolfmother                            Joker And The Thief
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Yonderboi                             People Always Talk About The
                                      Weather (Junkie XL Remix)
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