Released on:
wipEout 2097 / wipEout XL
Runtime: 4:29
Brian and Garry supplied three tracks to the Playstation game wipEout 2097 / wipEout XL: ‘We Have Explosive’, ‘We Have Explosive (Herd Killing)’, and ‘Landmass’, with the latter the only one not to appear on a standard FSOL release, and also only appearing on the game disc itself, rather than on its accompanying soundtrack album. It’s an atypical track for 1996, being the first conventional ‘dance’ track the band had released since 1993. 303 squelches, a straight four-to-the-floor kick and a conventional snare/clap loop aren’t things anyone would expect from a Dead Cities era track, and fans generally considered it to be an older track taken from the archives due to its video game sound. Then The Most Important Moments in a Life came along, with its Dead Cities Planner page and accompanying postcard, featuring ‘Landmass’ on a near-complete Dead Cities tracklist. Turns out, it is indeed a much older track which was unearthed, and selected by the band’s A&R man Rob Manley as being perfectly suited to the game. The title was no doubt ported over from whatever scrapped Dead Cities track originally bore it.
Tracklist
CD-ROM (SLES-00327)
1. Game data
2. Future Sound of London – We Have Explosive
3. Future Sound of London – Landmass
4. Fluke – Atombomb (Straight 6 Instrumental Mix)
5. Fluke – V6
6. The Chemical Brothers – Dust Up Beats
7. The Chemical Brothers – Loops of Fury
8. Photek – The Third Sequence
9. Underworld – Tin There (Underworld Edit)
10. The Prodigy – Firestarter (Instrumental)
11. Cold Storage – Canada
12. Cold Storage – Body in Motion
Fractional Difference 