I might have to make a video trying to figure out why Cubanate's music was heavily featured in Gran Turismo, and then never heard again in subsequent entries. The soundtrack differs between US and Japanese releases, yet this obscure band is out of England, and probably Gran Turismo is the only place their music is prominently featured in. Not only that, but the entire music genre of the game seems to center around these guys, with synths, heavy guitar, and thick beats in every menu screen. The Japanese version is more jazzy, which would be the genre they stuck with through the next games in the series. If that's the case, why Americanize the music in the first place?
The reason that the NTSC-U/PAL soundtracks are so different to the Japanese one is that Sony felt that the jazz fusion soundtrack of the NTSC-J version wouldn't be appreciated by the audience outside of Japan and handed the job of doing the soundtrack to the non-Japanese versions to Jason Page, an English composer who had formerly composed games for the Commodore 64 and the Amiga and continued to work with Sony for quite some time afterwards with sound development. This style of synth-heavy, rather raw music was pretty popular in the UK at the time and reflections of that idea can be seen in other British-developed racing games of the time (see the Wipeout series, which was originally composed primarily by Tim Wright, previously the composer of Lemmings and other Amiga titles, but later gravitated towards more established electronic music acts like The Chemical Brothers and The Prodigy). Jason Page's self-composed interstitial music followed that style as well. I'm not sure which tracks other than the Cubanate ones made it into the NTSC-U release, but the PAL version had As Heaven is Wide by Garbage (the one American band in the mix), Lose Control by Ash (an alt-rock band from Northern Ireland) and four tracks by Feeder (an alt-rock band from Wales), more reflective of the market in the UK than it was the US. While Sony and Polyphony Digital backtracked from the decision to have two interstitial separate soundtracks between the races with Gran Turismo 2, the in-game soundtracks between regions continued to differ with GT2. Not sure about the later ones, though. What is clear, though, is that the music for the original Gran Turismo wasn't Americanised when it made it outside of Japan - it was Anglicised instead.
@@RAKtheUndead Sorry for the late reply, RU-vid doesn't notify me! Thanks for the info, we did get As Heaven is Wide and Lose Control, most likely they swapped out the Feeder tracks for Cubanate tracks. You'll notice all the Cubanate tracks are instrumentals only, so I think they had *some* rights to recreate the songs, yet didn't get the vocal artist in, even though he's mentioned in the credits section. Having Jason Page as a lead might help in learning more about the origins of the Gran Turismo music, answering why wasn't this style of music used ever again in sequels. I can understand why GT2 uses basically the same jazz fusion music as GT1, they were under heavy time constraints, and didn't have time to localize the soundtrack, other than licensing a few "Americanized" tracks to race on.
@@UltramanMebiusBrave No, there's more than that. Compare this to the album version and you'll hear a big difference. The original one has a much more raw and harsh sound to it and the guitar tone is way different. The instrumental version has a more crisp and clearer sound. Oxyacetylene and Industry also sound different similar in the way of Skeletal. Even Autonomy sounds a bit different but I think that's because the bass is thicker in the instrumental version otherwise I think they're the same.
It was probably easier to just rerecord the tracks using some of the same sequences and samples because when you recorded stuff back then you couldn't make changes easily
This music teels me how harsh is real life be... Very match when this music became background music of FF7 Advent Children ending (The harsh fate is very compatible when combined with the harsh music like this)
@@agungindrasaputra6997 i actually haven't connected gran turismo's music to ff7, mostly because ff7 original is three years older than me and i've never played it unfortunately that means i also fell victim to spoilers, y'know the ones right?
