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Hiroki Ogawa And The Path To Dog Ear Records

By Jerisaka . November 14, 2008 . 10:35pm

Hiroki Ogawa is the director of Nobuo Uematsu’s recording studio Dog Ear Records. Together with the Distant Worlds: Music from Final Fantasy orchestral concert,…

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Building VGMdb, A Videogame Music Database

By Jerisaka . November 14, 2008 . 6:45pm

Since the website opened late last year, the stated goal of VGMdb has been to comprehensively archive the world’s videogame music albums. Other resources…

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EXTRA 2008: Uraken on 8BIT☆iDOLM@STER

By Jerisaka . November 8, 2008 . 6:11pm

Since Uraken first began DJ’ing, his electronic music has been described as powerful and uplifting. In addition to appearing at live performances, beginning in…

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EXTRA 2008: Yuzo Koshiro on Etrian Odyssey

By Jerisaka . October 19, 2008 . 5:29pm

When looking at the magnitude of music composed by Yuzo Koshiro for the Etrian Odyssey series of role-playing games, its breadth amounts to a…

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EXTRA 2008: Jeff Curry on The Outer Rim

By Jerisaka . October 19, 2008 . 4:39pm

In May of this year, the Tokyo-based band The Outer Rim published their self-titled debut album. Composed primarily by bassist Jeff Curry, the musician…

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Focal points of videogame music – real and virtual

By Jerisaka . October 12, 2008 . 7:15pm

Akihabara is a hub retro games, used consoles and videogame music albums. At the Super Potato store located just a short walk from the JR…

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Mega Man 9 music interview with Inti Creates’ Ippo Yamada

By Jerisaka . October 4, 2008 . 9:03am

 
While working for Capcom, Ippo Yamada participated in composing music and designing sounds for Mega Man 7, credited under the codename IPPO. He…

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PixelJunk Eden art and music: Baiyon Interview

By Jerisaka . September 27, 2008 . 12:37am

Baiyon is a DJ, art director and graphics designer based in Kyoto, Japan. Several years ago he released the album “Like a school on lunch…

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Dive Into PixelJunk Monsters: Otograph Interview

By Jerisaka . September 27, 2008 . 12:27am

Otograph is the group name of Sachiyo Oshima and Takashi Iura, the artists behind the original soundtrack to PixelJunk Monsters. Their music to the tower…

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Yakuza 2 Music Interview – Hidenori Shoji and Hideki Sakamoto

By Jerisaka . September 20, 2008 . 10:40pm

In chronicling protagonist Kazuma Kiryu’s journey into Japan’s underworld of organized crime, the musical score to Yakuza 2 brings together a number of videogame…

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Luminary composers gather for 2008 Press Start symphony of games

By Jerisaka . September 14, 2008 . 7:36pm

In attendance at last night’s Press Start Symphony of Games taking place at Shibuya’s Bunkamura Orchard Hall were a number of Japan’s videogame music…

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Rockman 9 Original Soundtrack includes staff comments, boss gallery

By Jerisaka . September 12, 2008 . 9:45am

There are a few surprises to be found upon delving into the original soundtrack for Rockman 9: The Ambition’s Revival!!, beginning with removing the…

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Sound Current: The PAX 10

By Jerisaka . September 6, 2008 . 3:30pm

Fifty judges comprised of industry experts were asked by the organizers of the Penny Arcade Expo to select ten outstanding independent games for this…

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Tokyo hosts Extra – Hyper Game Music Event in October

By Jerisaka . September 6, 2008 . 3:26pm

Last year, 5pb Records organized a concert during which prominent videogame composers performed renditions of their own compositions and remixed their favorite tunes from the…

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