EA announces deal to bring 'Throwback Trax' to future sports titles

Electronic Arts has announced a deal with Rhino Records that will see music from the late 80s and early 90s appear in this year's range of EA Sports titles in the shape of "Throwback Trax", an expansion of the publisher's "EA Trax" soundtrack catalogue.

The deal will see songs from the likes of House of Pain, Pantera, MC Lyte, Faith No More, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Cure and Violent Femmes appear in games like FIFA Football 2005, Rugby 2005, NBA Live 2005 and others. The first game to feature Throwback Trax will be EA Sports' American football title Madden NFL 2005, which is due out on all formats this August.

Electronic Arts maintains that the original Trax label "remains focused on breaking new artists in the games," citing Blink 182, Chingy and Jet as artists who have benefited from their appearance as 'Trax' in EA games since 2003.

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