Dance Dance Revolution Extreme Limited Edition Music Sampler


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. 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.

Track listing

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 which is a remix of a song from Konami's horror series; Silent Hill, and B4U , 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.