Now this certainly feels familiar. While EA’s most recent pugilist, Fight Night Round 3, digressing from the company’s norm in its hip-hop heavy soundtrack with a scanty dozen tracks, the massive song line-ups typical of the industry giant seem to be back in fashion. We’re looking at you, FIFA Street 2, and your internationally flavored in-game soundtrack, teeming with 47 tunes courtesy of drum & bass, underground hip hop, rock and Latin artists ‘round the globe.

Catering to a little word we like to call “variety,” the sound stage is anything but continent-specific, picking up talent from Brazil (with Curumin), Sweden (say hello to Swing Fly) to even the Canadian boys up north (that’d be Bran Van 3000). A fortunate few are even launching their songs through the game, namely Roni Size with “Bite the Bullet,” "Hold Your Colour REMIX" by Pendulum, "Suzie" by Boy Kill Boy, "Flo Fashion" by Sway, "Tru Skool" by Coldcut featuring Roots Manuva and "Yeah, Yeah, Yeah,” courtesy of The Flaming Lips (hey, an artist we’ve actually heard of!)

Players will be able to pick their aural poison by tuning into any of the three in-game radio stations. LIVE FM, with host DJ Zanr Lowe, brings the hip hop and rock, the “Godfather of drum & bass,” DJ Grooverider, dishes out his specialty on Rider Radio, and celebrated Latin radio host and artist DJ Marky spices things up with Radio Bongo. If genre specificity isn’t your thing, though, why don’t you just create your own radio station, crafting a custom playlist from the in-game tunes and even throwing one of seven international DJs on the mic. We dare you.

"We have yet again broken new ground with the soundtrack in FIFA Street 2," gloated Steve Schnur, Worldwide Executive of Music and Music Marketing at EA. "These 47 songs represent the hottest emerging artists around the globe. Whether you're playing FIFA Street in Japan, Mexico, Germany or the US, there's something here for everyone."

Yeah, so about those songs…

“Acredite Ou Nao (Funk Esquema Morro Mix)” by Joao Marcello Boscolli
“Ant Music” by Hyper
“Astounded” by Bran Van 3000 feat. Curtis Mayfield
“Babylon Rising” by DJ Fresh feat. Pendulum
“Babymaker” by Pacific
“Big Picture” by Artificial Intelligence
“Bite The Bullet” by Roni Size
“Blood Fire” by The Nextmen feat. Dynamite MC
“Caionagandaia” by XRS Land feat. Caio Bernardes & Fernanda Porto
“Carnival” by Shimano & Codeine
“Defcom 69 (Remix)” by Total Science
“Flo Fashion” by Sway
“Formed A Band” by Art Brut
“Free the Beast” by Ivory
“Freestyle Em Movimento” by J3
“Funk Academy” by DJ Fresh
“Futurismo Y Tradicion” by Cafe Tacuba
“Gaviota” by Jimmy Bosch
“Get Up” by Giant Robot
“Going Deaf” by DJ Marky & XRS
“Guerreiro” by Curumin
“Hold Your Colour (Bi-Polar Mix) ” by Pendulum
“Jawbreaker (Big In The Game Remix feat. Aggi Dukes)” by Killa Kela
“Kickback” by Lethal Bizzle
“Made In Bahia” by DJ Patife feat. Cleveland Watkiss, Cortejo Afro, Mariene De Castro & MC Fats
“Munich” by Editors
“Net Ripper” by Futurebound & Entity
“Never Gonna Stop The Show” by General Midi
“No Return” by Artificial Intelligence
“No Time 2 Love” by DJ Marky & Bungle
“Nu Yorica” by Lemon D
“O Yeah” by End of Fashion
“Que Isso Menina” by DJ Patife feat. Trio Mocoto
“Raw Live” by Lyrics Born, Del The Funky Homosapian, Pigeon John and Steve Knight
“Rock & Roll Queen” by The Subways
“Rock The Boat” by Shy FX & T Power feat. Di
“Samba De Flora” by Airto Moreira
“Say Your Words” by Concord Dawn
“Something's Got Me Started” by Swing Fly
“Suzie” by Boy Kill Boy
“The Odyssey (Grooverider VIP) ” by Drumsound & Simon Bassline Smith
“Tijuana Bass” by Nortec Collective
“Tru Skool” by Coldcut feat. Roots Manuva
“Victory” by Q Project
“Without Me” by British Beef
“Yeah, Yeah, Yeah” by The Flaming Lips
“Your Isolation” by Craggz & Parallel Forces

With this one striking gold only days ago, we reckon FIFA Street 2 will be scoring in retail in a matter of days. Say, February 28? Sounds good!