I added the in-game credits which list Takashi Niigaki as conductor of the orchestra recordings.
This article confirms that the music was done by Takashi Niigaki and some friends:
Quote:
Six months later, the phone rang. Samuragochi had landed another job, the soundtrack for a video game in the Resident Evil series, and he needed Niigaki’s help. The catch: They had only ten days to complete it. But there was a determination—in retrospect, a desperation—in Samuragochi’s voice, and a presumption of inevitability. Samuragochi had already lined everything up: He’d even persuaded the producers at the gaming giant Capcom to spring for an orchestra. Now he needed Niigaki. “It wasn’t a question of maybe,” Niigaki recalled.
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Niigaki frantically threw together dozens of short pieces for the game, soliciting help from composer friends to complete the project on time. Samuragochi once brought Niigaki to a meeting with Capcom producers and introduced Niigaki as his assistant. Whenever the Capcom producers had a technical question about the music, Samuragochi would defer to Niigaki. Again, Samuragochi received full credit for the score.
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Given that they presumably composed the entire score in just ten days, I can probably cut them some slack for
this (which may just be the single most posted VGM YouTube video on the web). Some seem to use this cacophonic piece as an excuse to discredit the rest of the soundtrack, although (bad synth aside)
it has some really nice tunes.