Look again. Your favorite track(the Garuda battle theme) was actually written by Masayoshi Soken, who serves as 2.0's sound lead, as was a lot of 1.0's later stuff.

The reason Uematsu's stuff didn't stick with the game was because as great as some tracks were, they were an eclectic mess of poorly chosen instruments that rarely if ever fit the area or scene they were used in.