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Preorders open for Apes In The Net 2025 Edition on red vinyl

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Preorders open for Apes In The Net 2025 Edition on red vinyl
Far East Recording published Apes In The Net last year, reconstructed and remastered for Japan-only CD and digital releases over a decade ago. The six-track Ape Escape EP by Soichi Terada is published via Bandcamp, with streaming on Spotify.

Cartridge Thunder has opened preorders for the 2025 physical edition on red vinyl, featuring 3D renders evocative of the original promotional materials. Shipping is estimated for November of this year.

PlayStation platforming adventure game Ape Escape previously joined the PlayStation Plus Premium collection of classic game titles, enhanced with up-rendering, rewind, quick save, and custom video filters. The Japan Studio title launched in 1999, among the earliest games to make full use of the DualShock controller's twin analog sticks.


From the Cartridge Thunder product page:
Outside of the international house underground, where his early ‘90s works for the Far East Recording label he co-founded with Shinichiro Yokota are rightly celebrated as bona-fide classics, Soichi Terada is best-known for his work composing music for video games. Yet until now, few of his productions for video games have been released outside of Japan, especially on vinyl.

Apes In The Net, a six-track EP featuring music composed for the popular PlayStation 1 series Ape Escape, sets the record straight. It not only showcases Terada’s quality as a composer and producer, but also his versatility. Like much of Terada’s work on the Ape Escape series, the tracks featured don’t explore deep, New York and New Jersey influenced house sounds, but rather his lesser-celebrated love of jungle and drum & bass – a sound he fully explored on 1996 album Sumo Jungle.
Cartridge Thunder - Soichi Terada: APES IN THE NET (2025 Edition on Red Vinyl)

YouTube Music - Apes in the Net / Ape Escape Originape Soundtracks