Namco Sounds - TEKKEN 7 (Original Soundtrack)

Laced Records

£79.20

Format: 4 x LP
Catalogue No.: LMLP38
Barcode: 5024545895810
Release Date: 12 Aug 2022
Genre: Soundtrack

TRACKLISTING:
DISC 1 - SIDE A
A1.Beginning Of The End
A2. Solitude
A3. Tonight Is The Night
A4. Fight Night
A5. Midnight Closet
A6. SUNBEAMS
A7. Canto 1

SIDE B
B1. Beginning
B2. DUOMO DI SIRIO 1st
B3. DUOMO DI SIRIO 2nd
B4. Metallic Experience 1st
B5. Metallic Experience 2nd
B6. I'm Here Now 7's remix
B7. VioletSystems 1st
B8. VioletSystems 2nd

DISC 2 - SIDE A
A1. Desperate Struggle
A2. Abandoned Temple Final 1st
A3. Abandoned Temple Final 2nd
A4. Arctic snowfall 1st
A5. The Motion
A6. Equator Line 1st
A7. Equator Line 2nd
SIDE B
B1. PRECIPICE OF FATE 2nd
B2. Moonsiders 1st
B3. Siren's Call
B4. A Grain of Sand 1st
B5. Hideaway 2nd
B6. Dojo 1st
B7. Dojo 2nd

DISC 3 - SIDE A
A1. Empty Your Mind 1st
A2. Empty Your Mind 2nd
A3. BRIMSTONE & FIRE 1st
A4. BRIMSTONE & FIRE 2nd
A5. Lonesome City Jazz Party 1st
A6. Ruin 65 2nd
A7. The day before the glass matrix 1st
SIDE B
B1. House of Hachijyou
B2. KAZUMI's Theme
B3. Devil KAZUMI
B4. Volcano 1st
B5. Volcano 2st

DISC 4 - SIDE A
A1. Heat Haze Shadow 1
A2. Heat Haze Shadow 2
A3. Aloneness
A4. The Long Goodbye
A5. VREDE
A6. Ball Wall
A7. Dream Chest
SIDE B
B1. Hwoarang's Ending
B2. Devil Jin's Ending
B3. Katarina's Ending
B4. Gigas's Ending
B5. Lucky Chloe's Ending
B6. Eddy's Ending

B7. Master Raven's Ending
B8. Dragunov's Ending
B9. Paul's Ending
B10. Panda's Ending
B11. Josie's Ending
B12. Kuma's Ending
B13. Bob's Ending
B14. Bryan's Ending
B15. Steve's Ending
B16. Nina's Ending
B17. Aska's Ending
B18. Xiaoyu's Ending
B19. Claudio's Ending
B21. Feng Wei's Ending
B22. Law's Ending
B23. Yoshimitsu's Ending
B24. Miguel's Ending
B25. Shaheen's Ending
B26. King's Ending
B27. Jack's Ending
B28. Eliza's Ending

Music from 2015 arcade and 2017 console/PC versions
• 75 tracks by Rio Hamamoto, Taku Inoue, Akitaka "AJURIKA" Tohyama, Haruki Yamada, Katsuro Tajima, Go Shiina, Yuu Miyake, Hiroshi Okubo, Keiichi Okabe, Nobuyoshi "sanodg" Sano, Yoshinori Kawamoto, Kensuke Inage, Yoshihito Yano and Junichi Nakatsuru
• Original artwork by Samuel Donato
• Deluxe gatefold box housing spined inner sleeves

Unlike the feuding Mishimas, Bandai Namco and Laced Records harmoniously collaborate once more to bring the TEKKEN vinyl series up to date with the TEKKEN 7 4LP box set — just don’t drop it off a cliff.

Global sales of the venerable fighting game series have smashed past 50 million units since TEKKEN 7 launched in arcades in 2015 and consoles and PC in 2017. The accessible yet technical brawler has gone from strength to strength in the era of eSports and live service games, also featuring crossover characters from Street Fighter, Fatal Fury, Final Fantasy and The Walking Dead.

Once again, an impressive roster of musical talent worked on the soundtrack, including many returning composers from previous games in the series. This time, Rio Hamamoto stepped up as lead composer, with Akitaka "AJURIKA" Tohyama and Taku Inoue pulling a heavy shift — with credits across the TEKKEN, Soulcalibur, Ridge Racer, Ace Combat and Katamari series spread between them.

In keeping with the series’ soundtracks, TEKKEN 7 features some exquisitely crafted electronic music that mixes multiple musical elements, from jazz to EDM to synthwave and beyond. While there’s a harder, more modern edge to some of the tracks, the melodrama is still thick, with opera- and metal-infused tracks helping to raise the emotional stakes as the story of the Mishima family reaches a volcanic climax. An impressive virtuosity runs throughout — be sure to listen closely to the extraordinary performances on Go Shiina’s “Duomo di Sirio, Pt. 1.”

Juxtaposed with all the fire and fury of the story mode are several expressive classical guitar pieces by Namco veteran Katsuro Tajima and notable classical composers, performed by Toshiyuki Kumagai.

Elsewhere on the OST, Swedish art metal band BatAAr contributed original song “VREDE” (Swedish for ‘wrath’) to complement Lars Alexandersson’s storyline; while Inoue’s credits songs “Aloneness” and “The Long Goodbye” were performed by Yumi Hara and Darnell Abraham respectively.

Other contributing composers include include Keiichi Okabe, Nobuyoshi "sanodg" Sano, Kensuke Inage, Yoshinori Kawamoto, Yuu Miyake, Junichi Nakatsuru, Hiroshi Okubo, Haruki Yamada and Yoshihito Yano.

75 tracks have been specially mastered for vinyl by engineer Joe Caithness, and tracks will be pressed onto audiophile-quality, heavyweight discs.

In keeping with the vinyl series so far, the box set features sleeve artwork by illustrator Samuel Donato aka DXSinfinite.

This Standard Edition features traditional black discs. Four LPs come in spined inner sleeves, all housed in a deluxe gatefold box.