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Shinji Hosoe (細江 慎治, Hosoe Shinji, born February 28, 1967), also known as Megaten and Sampling Masters MEGA,[1] is a Japanese video game composer and musician most famous for scoring Ridge Racer, Street Fighter EX and many Namco arcade games between 1987 and 1996.[2] He also runs the music production and publishing company SuperSweep, alongside long time collaborator Ayako Saso.
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Shinji Hosoe 細江 慎治 | |
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| Also known as | Megaten Sampling Masters MEGA |
| Born | February 28, 1967 Gero, Gifu Prefecture, Japan |
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| Years active | 1987–present |
| Labels | Troubadour Records SuperSweep |
Biography
Early life
Hosoe was born on February 28, 1967 in Gero, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. His family moved to Chōfu while he was in first grade of elementary school. At the age of 8, he bought Isao Tomita's album The Planets. He also listened to electronic music by artists such as Jean-Michel Jarre, Kraftwerk and Yellow Magic Orchestra. During his teenage years, he played bass in a Yellow Magic Orchestra tribute band. At the time, he did not have a serious interest in music and received low grades in music classes. After graduating high school, he studied computer graphics at Japan Electronics College.[3]
Namco (1985–1996)
Hosoe joined Namco in 1985 as a part-time game tester and CG artist. During this time, he merely created music as a hobby in his spare time. After showing his music to fellow co-workers, he was reassigned the position of a composer in 1986.[4] This led to him composing for Dragon Spirit, as well as various other arcade games such as Final Lap, Ordyne and Dirt Fox. He started off tracks by programming a rhythm into the sequencer, then playing melodies with a keyboard on-top, and later adding new parts or re-writing existing parts.[5] In 1990, he composed for Galaxian3: Project Dragoon, working with Ayako Saso and Takayuki Aihara for the first time; he found himself busy with lots of other work, hence other tracks were composed by the other two composers.[6]
In 1992, Hosoe composed for Fighter & Attacker alongside Aihara, his first game project to utilize dance music. The following year, he composed for Ridge Racer alongside Saso and Nobuyoshi Sano. While racing games at this point often featured jazz fusion music, the majority of tracks in the game are dance music.[6] The success of Ridge Racer has since led to him receiving many offers from companies to compose similar music. He also composed for Cyber Sled earlier that year, which he considers to be his greatest work,[2] although it received a mixed reception from critics, who criticized it for being repetitive.[7][8]
Arika and SuperSweep (1996–present)
Hosoe left Namco to join Arika in 1996, feeling that his salary would not increase any further.[9] Saso and Aihara also joined Arika desiring to continue working with him, although Sano remained at Namco. This led to the trio composing for Street Fighter EX along with its sequels. The console versions were their first game projects to feature live instrumentation. Ex-Taito composer Yasuhisa Watanabe later joined the sound team. The trio were also given freedom to work on the music of Square games Bushido Blade and Driving Emotion Type-S. The latter game was poorly received by game critics and fans, although the soundtrack has received praise for its blend of fusion, rock and techno music.[10][11][12] However, the music also received criticism, with one critic describing it as sounding like "a flock of seagulls being maimed and tortured".[13]
Upon joining Arika, he expressed a desire to eventually found his own game music company, which eventually led to him leaving in 2000 and founding SuperSweep alongside Saso and Watanabe.[2][14] Yousuke Yasui, who had already tried to apply to join Arika, also joined the company as a composer. In addition to composing for games, the company also publishes various soundtracks.
One of SuperSweep's first works was the soundtrack of Arika's Technictix in 2001, which Hosoe considers to be one of his most significant contributions to game music.[2] The team also worked on the music of the game's sequel Technic Beat. The game's producer, Ichiro Mihara, decided that the game's soundtrack would include remixes of music from earlier Namco and Arika games. Mihara chose which tracks would be included in the game, while the composers decided on which tracks they wanted to remix, at times fighting with other composers over who would remix a track.[15]
In 2004, Hosoe and Saso[16] worked on the gameplay soundtrack of Xenosaga Episode II: Jenseits von Gut und Böse, with Yuki Kajiura composing the cutscene music. Kajiura worked entirely separate from Hosoe and Saso, and did not collaborate on any tracks nor even meet during the game's production.[17] For the gameplay tracks, Hosoe composed those with the sound hardware of the PlayStation 2, and opted to use an electronic sound over orchestral due to the limited memory available to work with, in an attempt to make the difference in sound quality between the gameplay and cutscene soundtracks smaller.[2] His music for the game was poorly received by critics and fans at the time, and were considered unfitting;[18] as a result, he had no interest in releasing a soundtrack CD at the time and did not return to compose for Xenosaga Episode III: Also Sprach Zarathustra, although his work eventually received a more positive reception from fans.[19]
Along with Saso, Kenji Kawai and other composers, he scored Folklore in 2007. The game features a serious, dark cinematic score; while Hosoe most frequently works on upbeat electronic music, he found the music easy to compose due to not having to focus on sound design. In 2009, he served as the sole composer of Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors, which also features dark, intense music. He found the music straightforward to compose. As he had to compose the music using the Nintendo DS sound hardware, Yasui assisted him in ensuring that the music sounded close to the quality of recorded music. He would go on to compose for later titles in the Zero Escape series, including Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward in 2012 and Zero Time Dilemma in 2016.[20]
In 2016, game company Breaking Bytes announced that if its shoot 'em up game Xydonia is successfully funded, then Hosoe and Keishi Yonao will contribute additional tracks to the game. Saso and Yasui are also planned to be additional composers for the game if the stretch goal of €32,000 is reached.[21] However, as of 2022 the game has yet to be released.
Side projects
In addition to his career as a composer for games and other media, Hosoe has also participated in a number of side projects. He founded the record label Troubadour Record in 1991. The label released a number of game soundtrack-inspired concept albums, featuring other prolific video game composers such as Hitoshi Sakimoto and Hayato Matsuo,[9] as well as vocal and cover albums. He was also part of the group Oriental Magnetic Yellow (O.M.Y.), parodying Yellow Magic Orchestra, alongside fellow Namco composers Sano, Aihara, and Hiroto Sasaki.[4] The group released several albums and also performed concerts.[22] He has also released albums under the Sampling Masters name with Saso, including the Over Drive Hell series of albums. He has also participated in the Nanosweep album series, which features original tracks by composers from both SuperSweep and Hiroshi Okubo's circle nanosounds.
Works
Video games
As lead composer
| Year | Title | Notes |
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| 1987 | Dragon Spirit | |
| Final Lap | ||
| Quester | ||
| 1988 | Assault | with Kazuo Noguchi |
| Ordyne | ||
| 1989 | Dirt Fox | |
| 1990 | Final Lap 2 | |
| Pistol Daimyo no Bōken | with Seiichi Sakurai and Yoshie Takayanagi | |
| Dragon Saber | ||
| Galaxian3: Project Dragoon | with Ayako Saso and Takayuki Aihara | |
| 1991 | Starblade | |
| Little Master: Legend of Likebahn | ||
| 1992 | Little Master 2: Knight of Lightning | |
| Eye of the Beholder | PC-98 version; with Yuzo Koshiro | |
| Fighter & Attacker | with Takayuki Aihara | |
| Galaxian3: Project Dragoon Theater 6 | with Ayako Saso and Takayuki Aihara | |
| 1993 | Cyber Sled | |
| Ridge Racer | with Ayako Saso and Nobuyoshi Sano | |
| 1994 | Ridge Racer 2 | with Ayako Saso, Nobuyoshi Sano and Takayuki Aihara |
| Attack of the Zolgear | with Ayako Saso | |
| Cyber Commando | with Akihiko Ishikawa and Hiroto Sasaki | |
| 1995 | Tekken | PlayStation version; arrangements with various others |
| Little Master: Jewels of the Rainbow | ||
| Rave Racer | with Ayako Saso, Nobuyoshi Sano and Takayuki Aihara | |
| Dirt Dash | with various others | |
| Speed Racer | ||
| 1996 | Xevious 3D/G | with Ayako Saso, Nobuyoshi Sano and Hiroto Sasaki |
| Tekken 2 | PlayStation version; arrangements with various others | |
| Street Fighter EX | with Ayako Saso and Takayuki Aihara | |
| 1997 | Bushido Blade | with Ayako Saso and Takayuki Aihara |
| Street Fighter EX Plus α | with Ayako Saso and Takayuki Aihara | |
| 1998 | Street Fighter EX2 | with Ayako Saso and Takayuki Aihara |
| Tetris: The Grand Master | with Ayako Saso | |
| 1999 | iS: internal section | with Ayako Saso |
| Street Fighter EX2 Plus | arcade version; with Ayako Saso and Takayuki Aihara | |
| Custom Robo | with Ayako Saso and Yasuhisa Watanabe | |
| Street Fighter EX2 Plus | PlayStation version; with Ayako Saso, Takayuki Aihara and Yasuhisa Watanabe | |
| 2000 | Street Fighter EX3 | with Ayako Saso, Takayuki Aihara and Yasuhisa Watanabe |
| Driving Emotion Type-S | with Ayako Saso and Takayuki Aihara | |
| Tetris the Absolute 2: The Grand Master | with Ayako Saso | |
| Custom Robo V2 | with Ayako Saso, Yasuhisa Watanabe and Yousuke Yasui | |
| Victorious Boxers: Ippo's Road to Glory | with Takayuki Aihara and Naoki Tsuchiya | |
| 2001 | Technictix | with various others |
| Taikyoku Mahjong Net-De-Ron! | with Ayako Saso, Yasuhisa Watanabe and Yousuke Yasui | |
| 2002 | Technic Beat | with various others |
| Custom Robo GX | with Ayako Saso | |
| Everblue 2 | with Ayako Saso, Yousuke Yasui and Kaori Ohkoshi | |
| Perfect Prince | with Hitoshi Sakimoto and Ayako Saso | |
| Cosmic Batter Defense | ||
| 2003 | Mega Man Network Transmission | with Ayako Saso and Yousuke Yasui |
| Naruto: Clash of Ninja | with Ayako Saso and Yousuke Yasui | |
| Sister Contrast! | with Yousuke Yasui | |
| Naruto: Clash of Ninja 2 | with Ayako Saso, Yousuke Yasui and Masashi Yano | |
| 2004 | Xenosaga Freaks | with Ayako Saso, Masashi Yano and Keiichi Okabe |
| Xenosaga Episode II: Jenseits von Gut und Böse | with Yuki Kajiura and Ayako Saso | |
| Yakimochi Twin Bell | ||
| Hunks Workshop! | with Ayako Saso | |
| Exploding Goro | ||
| The Spear Force | ||
| Target Batting 2004 | ||
| 2005 | Tetris: The Grand Master 3 - Terror Instinct | with Ayako Saso |
| Spikeout: Battle Street | with Ayako Saso | |
| Ibara | ||
| Under Defeat | ||
| Tetris: The Grand Master Ace | with Ayako Saso | |
| Super Dragon Ball Z | with various others | |
| 2007 | Natsumelo | |
| Sweet Home: H na Onee-san wa Suki Desu ka? | ||
| 2008 | Pure My Imouto Milk Purun | |
| Impetuth | with Shoichiro Sakamoto | |
| 2009 | Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors | |
| 2010 | Metal Torrent | |
| Prismatic Solid | with Ayako Saso | |
| Fate/Extra | with Keita Haga and Daisuke Nagata | |
| Carnage Heart EXA | with Ayako Saso and Shuhei Seki | |
| 2012 | Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward | |
| 2013 | Lord of Vermilion III | |
| 2015 | Lord of Vermilion Re:3 | |
| 2016 | Zero Time Dilemma | |
| 2017 | Giga Wrecker | with Takahiro Eguchi and Teruo Taniguchi |
| 2018 | Pokémon Quest | with Teruo Taniguchi, Takahiro Eguchi, and Fumihisa Tanaka |
| 2021 | Pac-Man 99 | with Ayako Saso |
| 2022 | Alice Gear Aegis: Op. Halzion |
As a contributor
| Year | Title | Notes |
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| 1988 | Metal Hawk | with Kazuo Noguchi |
| 1995 | Mach Breakers: Numan Athletics 2 | "Attract" |
| Cyber Cycles | "Wind Ride Kids" | |
| 1998 | Battle Garegga | Saturn version; arrangements; "Subversive Awareness" and "Erupter" |
| 2000 | Prodigy Racing | "Try It" and "Trapp'n Musix" |
| 2001 | Keyboardmania 3rdMix | arrangements; "EE-AL-K" and "Sensation from Salamander2" |
| Beatmania IIDX 5th Style | "Outer Wall" and "Tablets" | |
| Beatmania IIDX 6th Style | "Route 80s" and "Rottel-Da-Sun" | |
| 2002 | Jorou Gumo: Makotogatari | opening theme |
| 2003 | DoDonPachi DaiOuJou | PlayStation 2 version; arrangements; "Stage Clear" and "Game Over" |
| Beatmania IIDX 9th Style | "Rottel-the-Mercury" | |
| Salem no Majo-tachi | opening theme "Dum Spiro,Spero." | |
| 2004 | Beatmania IIDX 10th Style | "1st Samurai" |
| Espgaluda | PlayStation 2 version; arrangement ("Name Entry") | |
| Konohana 4: Yami wo Harau Inori | ending theme "Promised Place" | |
| Ridge Racers | with various others | |
| 2005 | Zatch Bell! Mamodo Battles | with various others |
| Pop'n Music 13 Carnival | "Violently Car" | |
| Dancing Crazies | opening theme "Death Rate of Love" | |
| Ridge Racer 6 | "Valley of the Mind" and "Highway Fusion" | |
| Super Dragon Ball Z | with various others | |
| 2006 | Monster Kingdom: Jewel Summoner | with various others |
| Ridge Racers 2 | "Rotten7 Remix" and "Heat Floor Remix" | |
| Ridge Racer 7 | "Combustion" and "Listen Up!" | |
| 2007 | Memories Off #5: Encore (Soundtrack Dōkon Han) | arrangement ("Romancing Story" (trance version)) |
| Folklore | with various others | |
| Naruto: Clash of Ninja Revolution | & supervision; with various others | |
| Arkanoid DS | arrangement ("Captain Neo -Confusion Mix-") | |
| Umisho | with various others | |
| 2008 | DJMax Technika | "Son of Sun" |
| Sumeragi Ryouko no Bitch na 1 nichi | insert songs | |
| Tekken 6: Bloodline Rebellion | "Fist Festival" (also used in the console version of Tekken 6) | |
| Otomedius Gorgeous | DLC-only; arrangements; with various others | |
| Let's Tap | with various others | |
| Taiko no Tatsujin Wii | "Dance Storm" | |
| Beatmania IIDX 15: DJ Troopers CS | "Vox Up" (with Ryutaro Nakahara) | |
| 2009 | 11eyes CrossOver | "The Long Afternoon of the Mages" and "Hollow Boundary" |
| 2010 | Walk It Out! | "Happy in Comet" |
| Pop'n Music Portable | "Chat! Chat! Chat!" | |
| DJMax Technika 2 | with various others | |
| B's LOG Party | opening theme "Iridescent address" | |
| DJMax Portable 3 | "Xlasher" | |
| 2011 | Music GunGun 2 | "Crowded Space" |
| Otomedius Excellent | DLC-only; with various others | |
| Ridge Racer 3D | with various others | |
| Makki, Shoujobyou - Lyrical pop World's end | "Incoherent Disease" | |
| Taiko no Tatsujin Wii: Kettei-Ban | "Rotter Tarmination" and "Dodon ga Do~n" | |
| Ridge Racer (2011) | "The Time is Now" | |
| 2012 | Under Defeat HD | with Yousuke Yasui |
| Dopamix | "Rocket Valley -Dopa Edit-" | |
| Ridge Racer Unbounded | "Mushrooms" and "Wrong Way" | |
| Tekken Tag Tournament 2 | console version; with various others | |
| Groove Coaster Zero | "Wacky Dance Ethnic" | |
| maimai PLUS | arrangement ("Like the Wind [Reborn]") | |
| 2013 | Ginga Force | "Dubious Dealer" |
| Tekken Revolution | "Fear to Agonize" | |
| 2014 | Onigiri | "The Rainbow Wind Blows" and "One and All, Forever" |
| Pitapat-Beat | with various others | |
| Raiden IV: OverKill | arrangement ("Lightning Strikes") | |
| Protect Me Knight 2 | "Bon! Voyage" | |
| 2015 | Chunithm | "The Wheel to the Right" |
| 2017 | Angels With Scaly Wings | "Intro/Launch Trailer" |
| DJMax Respect | "Mulch" | |
| Neo Heiankyo Alien | "Alien Spirit" | |
| Chunithm Star | "Kattobi Keikyu Rider" | |
| Fighting EX Layer | with various others | |
| Beatmania IIDX 25: Cannon Ballers | "Vox Rush" (with Ryutaro Nakamura and Ayako Saso) | |
| Moeyo! Kung-Fu Lady Dragon | "Art High Chance (Skill)" | |
| 2018 | Ongeki | "Dazzle Hop" |
| 2019 | Tetris 99 | with various others |
| Giga Breaker Alt. | with Takahiro Eguchi and Teruo Taniguchi | |
| Konosuba: God's Blessing on this Wonderful World! Labyrinth of Hope and the Gathering Adventurers | "Toaru Hakase no Kenkyūjo Ato" | |
| Arcaea | version 2.4.7; "Avant Raze" | |
| Beatmania IIDX 27: Heroic Verse | "Rave Lithosphere" | |
| ESP Ra.De. Psi | arrangements; with various others | |
| 2020 | Caravan Boomer | "Restless Caravan" |
| 2021 | Cotton Reboot! | arrangements; with various others |
| Houkago Education! | theme song "Supplementary Lessons" | |
| TBA | Xydonia | with various others |
Non-music roles
| Year | Title | Notes |
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| 1998 | Fighting Layer | sound effects |
| 1999 | Deep Freeze | sound effects; with Ayako Saso and Takayuki Aihara |
| 2001 | Everblue | sound producer |
| 2002 | Gungrave | sound director |
| 2004 | The Nightmare of Druaga: Fushigi no Dungeon | sound producer |
| Dragon Quest & Final Fantasy in Itadaki Street Special | sound effect producer | |
| 2006 | Dragon Quest & Final Fantasy in Itadaki Street Portable | sound effect producer |
| 2007 | Endless Ocean | sound producer |
| 2009 | Endless Ocean: Blue World | sound producer |
| 2019 | Little Town Hero | recording engineer |
| 2021 | Sol Cresta | sound effects |
Other
| Year | Title | Notes |
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| 2007 | Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Character CD VOL.1 | insert song "Keiichi Oishi no Uwasa no Jikenbo ABC" |
| 2009 | Meat or Die | |
| 2012 | The Pet Girl of Sakurasou | with various others |
| 2014 | Keroro | with Ayako Saso, Takahiro Eguchi and Yousuke Yasui |
| No Game No Life | with Ayako Saso, Takahiro Eguchi and Fumihasa Tanaka | |
| 2015 | Taboo Tattoo | with Ayako Saso and Takahiro Eguchi |
References
- "Ridge Racer, 15 años a toda velocidad". Meristation. February 5, 2007. Retrieved June 11, 2011.
- Greening, Chris (January 2010). "Interview with Shinji Hosoe". Square Enix Music Online. Retrieved June 11, 2011.
- "ゲームミュージック＆アニメ専門店". ga-core. January 7, 2009. Archived from the original on June 29, 2009.
- "RocketBaby's interview with Shinji Hosoe". RocketBaby. 2003. Archived from the original on June 4, 2003.
- Namco Game Sound Express VOL.4 Dragon Saber (CD). March 21, 1991.
- "ゲームミュージック＆アニメ専門店". January 14, 2009. Archived from the original on June 29, 2009.
- "Cyber Sled - PlayStation". Nerd Bacon Reviews. April 18, 2016.
- Kotowski, Don (November 18, 2015). "Cyber Commando -Shinji Hosoe Works Vol. 5-".
- "ゲームミュージック＆アニメ専門店". ga-core. January 21, 2009. Archived from the original on June 29, 2009.
- Hall, Alexandra (November 6, 2020). "Square's Awful PS2 Racer Had Good-Ass Music, At Least". Kotaku.
- Ismail, Adam (May 14, 2021). "How One Of The Worst Racing Games Ever Taught Me To Enjoy Bad Things". Kotaku.
- "Driving Emotion Type-S / Bushido Blade Original Soundtrack". Chudah's Corner. Archived from the original on December 16, 2008.
{{cite web}}:|first=missing|last=(help) - Liu, Johnny (February 1, 2001). "Driving Emotion Type-S review for the PS2". Game Revolution. Archived from the original on December 2, 2008. Retrieved May 21, 2008.
- "ゲームミュージック＆アニメ専門店". January 28, 2009. Archived from the original on June 29, 2009.
- "『TECHNIC BEAT』 Interview : Part 1". Arika. 2002.
- Saso, Ayako (August 22, 2021). ""The part of Xenosaga Ep2 that I was in charge of was not even made into a soundtrack, so there are no song titles for any of the songs."". Peing.
- Kotowski, Don (May 26, 2009). "Anime Boston 2009: Interview with Kalafina and Yuki Kajiura". Original Sound Version. Archived from the original on September 20, 2010. Retrieved January 28, 2010.
- Dunham, Jeremy (February 9, 2005). "Xenosaga Episode II: Jenseits von Gut und Bose". IGN. Archived from the original on February 5, 2012. Retrieved January 29, 2010.
- Hosoe, Shinji (February 22, 2022). ""I don't know if you guys know this, but I got a lot of critical feedback on this title, and I wasn't in the mood to release a soundtrack."". Peing.
- Kotowski, Don (July 30, 2016). "Shinji Hosoe and Kotaro Uchikoshi Interview: Zero Times". Video Game Music Online.
- Greening, Chris (June 28, 2016). "Hosoe and Yonao tipped to contribute to new retro shmup soundtrack". Video Game Music Online.
- "OMY". Troubadour Record. Archived from the original on December 19, 2000.
External links
- Official English website
- Megahan's Hell – Shinji Hosoe's blog (Japanese only)
- Super Sweep Records site (Japanese only)
- Shinji Hosoe at IMDb
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