Dance Dance Revolution Extreme Limited Edition Music Sampler

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Dance Dance Revolution EXTREME LIMITED EDITION MUSIC SAMPLER

Soundtrack by Various Artists

Released

September 21, 2004

Genre

Various Genres

Length

36 minutes, 54 seconds

Label

Konami Digital Entertainment of America

Producer

Konami

Various Artists chronology

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On September 21, 2004 Konami Digital Entertainment of America released Dance Dance Revolution EXTREME on the PlayStation 2 in the United States. To encourage sales, they released a limited edition music CD featuring songs from the game.

These "exclusive music sampler" are available only to those who reserve the game before its release, typically at a GameStop or EB Games retail outlet^[1]. The CD contains tracks taken directly from the game as well as unique remixes done by Konami's in-house artists. Because of Dance Dance Revolution's musical nature the music found in the game and on the CD feature a broad range of musical styles.

Known to Konami as V-RARE SOUNDTRACK-3 USA, the V-RARE moniker had first been used by Konami to release similar albums in Japan to commemorate Bemani game releases there and still are to this date are. In Japan the music CDs are usually bundled with a given game upon release. To date Konami has released 13 V-RARE discs in the US to promote various Dance Dance Revolution game releases and has released them through various video game and non-video game vendors such as GameStop, EB Games, Toys "R" Us, and Burger King.

1 Track listing
2 The Music
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Track listing

Track	Song	Artist	Genre
1	Scorching Moon	Shawn The Horny Master	HOUSE
2	A	D.J. Amuro	RENAISSANCE
3	ECSTASY	d-complex	EURO TRANCE
4	Your Rain(RAGE MIX)	Akira Yamaoka feat. Mary Elizabeth McGlynn	ELECTRO R&B
5	WILD RUSH	FACTOR-X	AMBIENT BREAKS
6	A Stupid Barber	Sho-T	EURO HOUSE
7	MOBA★MOGA	Orange Lounge	FRENCH POP
8	JET WORLD	Mutsuhiko Izumi	ROCK'N COUNTRY
9	321STARS	DJ SIMON	TECHNO POP
10	V(for EXTREME)	TAKA	PROGRESSIVE
EXCLUSIVE BONUS TRACKS
11	I Need You(Insideout Door 3Mixes)	Supa Fova	DANCE POP
12	DROP THE BOMB(Original Extended Tune)	Scotty D.	TECHNO RAVE
13	B4U(glorious style)	NAOKI	SPEED RAVE
14	SO IN LOVE -train-	Caramel S. And The Master	SOFT JAZZ
15	I Need You(True Platinum Mix)	Sho-T	HOUSE

[edit] The Music

Of the tracks that comprise this CD the more notable ones are A which is from Konami's famous beatmaniaIIDX series, Your Rain(RAGE MIX) which is a remix of a song from Konami's horror series; Silent Hill, and B4U(glorious style), a rarely heard remix of B4U from the Japanese Dance Dance Revolution 4thMIX arcade, which was exclusively featured in Dance Dance Revolution 5thMIX in 2001.