REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 19, 2006--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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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(TM) video game and entertainment system, PlayStation(R)3 computer entertainment system, and Wii(TM) as well as the PlayStation(R)2 computer entertainment system, Xbox(R) videogame system from Microsoft, Nintendo GameCube(TM), Nintendo DS(TM), Game Boy(R) Advance, PSP(TM) (PlayStation Portable) handheld entertainment system, PC and mobile. More information can be found at www.needforspeed.com.
About Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) (Nasdaq:ERTS), headquartered in Redwood City, California, is the world's leading interactive entertainment software company. Founded in 1982, the company develops, publishes, and distributes interactive software worldwide for videogame systems, personal computers and the Internet. Electronic Arts markets its products under four brand names: EA SPORTS(TM), EA(TM), EA SPORTS BIG(TM) and POGO(TM). In fiscal 2006, EA posted revenue of $2.95 billion and had 27 titles that sold more than one million copies. EA's homepage and online game site is www.ea.com. More information about EA's products and full text of press releases can be found on the Internet at http://info.ea.com.
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Contacts
For Need for Speed Carbon
Amanda Hatton, 604-456-4386
ahatton@ea.com
or
For EA music
Tammy Schachter, 650-628-7223
tschachter@ea.com
