"a documentary series about Japanese video game music"

[options]

anyone post this yet? part 1 of 6 is up now... Diggin' In the Carts

[KAI]

I bet it's all about Kondo and Uematsu.

[CStarFlare]

(list of composers is in the link)

[bcass]

Not as bad as I was expecting, but when you're making a documentary about such an incredibly niche subject, you'd think they might be more inclined to cover more than the "surface" layer - more than just the widely known composers.

[SuperDeadite]

No Noriyuki Iwadare? Fail.

[options]

I think you all are being a bit too harsh.

I mean, I grew up playing these games—and I make music myself—and I didn't know anyone's name here short of Nobuo Uematsu. I'm certain a lot of people are in the same boat. Sure, they probably don't cover everyone worthy of it, but you can bet this series will introduce a lot of people to composers they never would've known of otherwise. Keep in mind that this was produced by Red Bull Music Academy—this is aimed at music nerds, not game geeks. Lighten up.

[mikehaggar]

Holy shit, are you guys kidding me? Every composer here is top notch. We've been needing something like this. They even got the composer for Gimmick!, who pretty much only did that one game's OST.

Yes, it probably won't have it all (or even close to all), but it's a damn nice start. And if it gets a lot of viewers, maybe more things like this will get made in the future?

Anyway, watch part 1...this is pretty damn impressive. Thanks for the link!!!

[Frenetic]

yeah this documentary is awesome! i'm all for it. let's all join hands together and make it popular and maybe the other japanese music composers that you wish were covered will see this documentary series and join in too on future episodes.

--the F-man

[Ji-L87]

I don't know if I'm just too stupid but I cannot for the life of me find the actual episode, just trailers

[ratikal]

This actually looks pretty legit. I will watch when I get home.

[Domino]

So far so good. I hope they would talk about Yellow Magic Orchestra and their influence in VGM (because they were).

[Frenetic]

http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/maga ... -the-carts

Scroll down and click on the box that says "Rise of the VGM"

I don't know if I'm just too stupid but I cannot for the life of me find the actual episode, just trailers

[mikehaggar]

So far so good. I hope they would talk about Yellow Magic Orchestra and their influence in VGM (because they were).

I'm sure if YMO influenced some composers, they will probably talk about it in their interview. For example, I'm pretty sure Shinji Hosoe will talk about them as he's said in several interviews that YMO is his biggest influence (not to mention his parody band Oriental Magnetic Yellow (OMY)) lol

[Domino]

So far so good. I hope they would talk about Yellow Magic Orchestra and their influence in VGM (because they were).

I'm sure if YMO influenced some composers, they will probably talk about it in their interview. For example, I'm pretty sure Shinji Hosoe will talk about them as he's said in several interviews that YMO is his biggest influence (not to mention his parody band Oriental Magnetic Yellow (OMY)) lol

Oh yes.


Now for those who don't know too much well lets just say the following:

From 1980 below:




Many moons later:




And just look at this famous album:






Ok I'll stop now. I'm just such a fan of YMO it isn't funny.

[railslave]

Thanks, highly enjoyed this look forward to Yuzo!!!

[options]

episode 2 is up. this one makes me wanna check out the Gimmick! soundtrack. I've never even heard of that game... *ducks*
Masashi Kageyama seems like a really cool guy to boot.

[nosorrow]

I love the series and what it sets out to do... BUT they swung and they missed with that second episode: Castlevania 8-bit music music should have gotten much more coverage than it did. It’s arguably the most iconic/important VGM out there.

P.S. That bit with the guy from some 80s J-rock band also sent mixed messages, almost as if the series' director was looking for some kind of validation: "Look! a real musician from a real band accepted to score (an obscure) videogame!". Missed opportunity IMO.

[waiwainl]

Started yesterday - didn't know anything about the background of all those great people!

Excellent series so far!

[bcass]

This also looks interesting:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ve ... game-sound

Scroll down for the list of interviewees. Good to see names on there like Martin Galway, Graeme Norgate, Hisayoshi Ogura, and Dave Wise, to name but a few.