Curated playlist
Anime composers
- Mina KubotaMina Kubota is a Japanese composer whose name turns up in the credits of an unusually varied run of anime. Her work sits behind the screen, in the songs and scores that shape how a story sounds. Most listeners will have heard her music…
- Yoko UenoYoko Ueno sang in four different bands before her first solo CD. The Japanese artist later made nine solo CDs.
- Kentarō HanedaKentarō Haneda taught at a Tokyo music college and also scored console games. He was best known for the Wizardry ports.
- Mitsuto SuzukiMitsuto Suzuki, a Japanese composer born in 1973, once filled 60 minute tapes with video game music that he recorded himself. He built those tapes with multitrack recording, long before anyone paid him to write a note. Today his…
- Masashi HamauzuMasashi Hamauzu left Square Enix on the 19th of January, 2010. He started MONOMUSIK, a studio with no other composers.
- Yuji YoshinoYuji Yoshino is a Japanese composer whose name turns up in the credits of video games, an anime and a visual novel. One of his best-known game credits is .hack//Legend of the Twilight, a project built around a digital world. Yoshino is not…
- Hitoshi SakimotoHitoshi Sakimoto was paid to write video game music at 16. He also wrote the program that played it.
- Yoko ShimomuraYoko Shimomura turned down a music store job to write video game music. Her family and instructors were dismayed.
- Hiroyuki NambaHiroyuki Namba scored Dallos in 1983, the first anime made straight for home video.
- Joe HisaishiJoe Hisaishi took his stage name from Quincy Jones. "Joe" came directly from "Jones," a private homage.
- Nobuo UematsuNobuo Uematsu never took a formal piano lesson. A Square employee offered him game work at his music rental shop.