EA REVS UP STREET RACING CULTURE WITH NEED FOR SPEED CARBON SOUNDTRACK

Redwood City , Calif. - Fasten your seatbelts for the most intense ride of the year as EA redefines the sound of street racing with Need for Speed™ Carbon. For this long-awaited new chapter in the top-selling franchise, EA™ 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:

Artist - Song

Dynamite MC - Bounce

Dynamite MC - After Party

Eagles Of Death Metal - Don’t Speak (I Came to Make A Bang!)

Ekstrak feat. Know-1 - Hard Drivers

Every Move A Picture - Signs Of Life

Gary Numan/Tubeway Army - Are ‘Friends’ Electric

Grandmaster Flash And The Furious Five - Scorpio

Goldfrapp - Ride A White Horse (Serge Santiago Remix)

Kyuss - Hurricane

Lady Sovereign - Luv Me Or Hate Me

Ladytron - Sugar (Jagz Kooner Remix)

Ladytron - Fighting In Built Up Areas

melody. - FEEL THE RUSH (Junkie XL Remix)

Metro Riots - Thee Small Faces

Part 2 feat. Fallacy - One Of Dem Days (Remix)

Pharrell feat. Lauren - Skateboard P Presents: Show You How To Hustle

Priestess - I Am The Night, Colour Me Black

Roots Manuva - No Love

Spank Rock - What It Look Like

Sway - Hype Boys

The Bronx - Around The Horn

The Presets - Steamworks

The Vacation - I’m No Good

Tiga - Good As Gold

Tigarah - Girl Fight (Mr. D Hyphy Mix)

Tomas Andersson - Washing Up (Tiga Remix)

Valient Thorr - Heatseeker

Vitalic - My Friend Dario

Wolfmother - Joker And The Thief

Yonderboi - People Always Talk About The Weather (Junkie XL Remix)

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™ video game and entertainment system, PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system, and Wii™ as well as the PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system, Xbox® videogame system from Microsoft, Nintendo GameCube™, Nintendo DS™, Game Boy® Advance, PSP™ (PlayStation Portable) handheld entertainment system, PC and mobile. More information can be found at www.needforspeed.com.