GTAIV DLC soundtrack details

By Tom Bramwell Published 12 February, 2009

Busta! Cavalera! Flex! Freeway!

Rockstar has revealed that the GTAIV: The Lost and Damned soundtrack will include a mixture of rock and metal songs to complement the story and a lot of new hip-hop to serve fans of The Beat 102.7, the original game's most popular radio station.

MTV reports that Lost and Damned, where you play biker Johnny Klebitz, promises a new death-metal show DJed by Max Cavalera on the Liberty City Hardcore station, while Liberty Rock and Radio Broker both include new tunes as well.

The new additions will be also weighted to play first so that they don't blend into the background of the game's already-extensive soundtrack, the site adds.

On hip-hop station The Beat, meanwhile, there are two new shows. The first is fronted by DJ Funkmaster Flex, who plays a Busta Rhymes song ("The Conglomerate") and interviews the man himself, while the other is DJed by Statik Selektah and consists of songs recorded or mixed for GTA by the likes of Freeway.

Look out for our review of GTA IV: The Lost and Damned early next week, with multiplayer hands-on going up in the meantime. The Xbox 360-only premium DLC pack is due out on 17th February for 1600 Microsoft Points (GBP 13.60 / EUR 19.20).

Check out our most recent Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned hands-on preview for an overview.

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  • bad09 #1 3 years ago

    Cool. A lot of people knocked the GTA4 soundtrack, and at first I didn't like it, but it does grow on you.

  • DutchDemons #2 3 years ago

    again with all the !!!!!!!!....gets kinda annoying now tbh. even if it's supposed to be funny...you gotta learn when to stop making a joke...

    OT; i'll pass on this....20 euro's for some more not-funny GTA story with a bit more music etc? no tnx.

  • Negotiator #3 3 years ago

    I can't wait.

  • Thunderbolt #4 3 years ago

    I'm one of those who didnt enjoy the soundtrack for GTAIV, it just didnt work for me. I still enjoyed the chat shows which are alwys good

    Vice City with its 80's soundtrack and San Andreas with its 90's soundtrack were both awesome, dunno maybe just getting old.

    However the new music stations look like they will suit the feel of the game.

    I can't wait

  • kinky_mong #5 3 years ago

    So considering I switched the Beat over to a different radio station practically every time it came on in a new car they're won't be much for me. The Classics was a much better Hip Hop station even if it did seem to only have about 3 songs on it.

    It was always Liberty Rock or Radio Broker for me.

  • Monkey_Puncher #6 3 years ago

    I stuck mainly to Radio Broker and Vladivostok FM, The Beat was decent but a lot of modern Hip Hop just doesn't do it for me. WIll be good to get some new music anyway, hopefully when they say metal it's proper metal and not the din that is thrash and black metal.

  • Moribundman #7 3 years ago

    It's been documented elsewhere (MTV) that they chose The Beat and Broker because from players in general those were the most listened to stations, and they chose LCH and LRR because they suit the theme of the DLC in the same way Vladivostok suited the main game's plot.

    In any case, can't wait. And please guys, if you don't like GTA being a little grittier (it's hardly the Wire - it's just drier, not slapstick left right and centre) then go play Saints Row 2. SR2 is a good solid, silly game but it's not as deep or as artistic as GTA. We live in a world where the two can coexist!

    Looking forward to DLC 2 now as well! Come on Eurogamer, do a story and some digging on these Luis Fernando Lopez/Impossible Trinity rumours!

  • Ryze #8 3 years ago

    The Beat 102.7 was a great station minus some of the nonsense DJ chatter and a couple of the tracks.

    It was also the station with the most reworked material directly referencing locations in the game.

    I look forward to this!

  • Bangaioh #9 3 years ago

    I've always been ok with the GTA soundtracks but not repeating time after time the same routes to reach a bloody mission... that does seriously suck balls.
    Edited by 1 at 12/02/09 @ 11:40

  • monkeywithnoeyes #10 3 years ago

    nobodys said how big this downloads going to be yet.

    Theres no real news on multiplayer yet either.. i've still my fingers crossed for co-op...which seeing as you're supposed to spend most of your time with a crew now may be possible

  • metalangel #11 3 years ago

    Whoop-dee-shit-music! The GTA soundtracks seem to increasingly be a wanking club for obscure, unlistenable crap in the face of far more obvious choices. Consider the house music station in San Andreas... the 90s was the golden age of dance music (which everyone of the age to be playing would have fond memories of) and they chose house instead?!? The soundtrack to Midnight Club LA is vastly superior to GTA4's.

  • brappbrap #12 3 years ago

    Can't we have a Vice City radio station? Best soundtrack to any game ever.
    But I do love death metal so I'm happy. Nice to see it finally getting some props, yo

  • frankfurter209 #13 3 years ago

    Nothing new on Electro Choc? Damn