He may in fact play drums, but I doubt these two are the same people. The composer Shinichi Tanaka's first work I know of was Dai-2-ji Super Robot Taisen for the NES, released in December 1991 (staff roll here:
http://staffroll.6.ql.bz/winky/srw2.html). The
drummer Shinichi Tanaka's blog indicates he was born in March 1981, which would've made him ten and a half years old when that game came out.