What is Killer Cuts, the Killer Instinct soundtrack album?
In 1995, the Super NES release of Killer Instinct arrived with a second product inside: Killer Cuts, a proper arranged soundtrack CD, remixes of the game's stage themes recorded as an album, not a data dump. It was packaged with the game at launch, and, by the commonly documented figure, only the first 100,000 copies included it, which is why complete boxed copies are hunted by the soundtrack as much as by the game.
The music is Rare's in house work: Robin Beanland composed and arranged most of it, with Graeme Norgate on four tracks, vocals from Faye Newborough and Chris Sutherland, and mixing at AIR Studios. The disc ends with a joke only a CD could tell: tracks 16 to 29 are four seconds of silence each, hiding track 30, Humiliation, the dance theme from the game's humiliation finishers.
INSIDE THE DISC
Fifteen songs, fourteen silences, one secret