Konami Kukeiha Club

Release Date: 12/29/2023
Format: 2 X LP
Label: Ship To Shore Phonograph Co. – STS-180
Release type: Yellow Colored Double Vinyl LP Pressing

Ship to Shore PhonoCo. is proud to announce the release of the original video game soundtrack to KONAMI’s frenetic run-and-gun sensation Contra: Hard Corps, now on vinyl for the very first time!

The sixth entry in the Contra series - and the first to reach Sega consoles - Hard Corps exploded onto players’ screens in the latter half of 1994, burning as many eyeballs with its intense combat as it did city landscapes in the game itself. Featuring choosable characters, swappable weapons, branching storylines and multiple endings, Hard Corps became a firm favourite for Contra-heads despite its notoriously high difficultly level.

Complementing the utter chaos is KONAMI Kukeiha Club’s score. The music’s ability to drive the action hardly ever relents, slapping into your ears like waves of explosive pressure from one of the game’s many explosions. Sometimes playful, sometimes funky but always driving the conflicts forward, is it any wonder why the Contra: Hard Corps soundtrack is one of the holy grails amongst VGM enthusiasts? Oh and keep your ears open for the Castlevania Vampire Killer remix, as heard in the secret battle stadium stage!

Featuring a new, definitive audio recording from original Mega Drive hardware, new gatefold artwork by Johnny Dombrowski and available in a limited edition yellow vinyl, Contra: Hard Corps — Original Video Game Soundtrack is a release you absolutely will not want to miss!

1. Locked and Loaded
2. Charshoe X
3. The Hard Corps
4. A SPIRIT OF BUSHI
5. Stage Clear
6. You no Nikusyokujyu
7. R.A.V.E.
8. Zephyr
9. Gekokujoh Norakura
10. Contra Overdrive
11. JB303
12. AC Violence
13. Format X
14. Something Wonderful
15. GTR Attack!
16. What a Painful World
17. Game Over
18. The Fogge Cave in the Darkness
19. The Dawn
20. Alien's Den
21. Guillotine
22. Contra the Blue Gale
23. Moonlit Army
24. Last Springsteen
25. The Hard Corps Blues
26. All Stage Clear
27. Jurassic Dope
28. Simon 1994RD