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Originally Posted by Cedille
Nope, Tamura used to be a contract worker of them and thus was part of the company (he left last year though).
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My understanding has always been that both Tamura and Sakuraba are contracted to do the music work on a project base, making them de facto employees of NTS at least for a limited time for each project and resulting in the respective crediting scheme. Tamura may have been employed more "permanently" before, but he also always did other works not related to NST at all. This is different from the nowadays more usual approach to pay freelance composers by tracks, by minutes of composed/arranged music and the likes (and leading to a different approach to creating the music itself directly affecting its quality/quantity balance depending on the budget allocated for those posts).
Of course I may as well totally off there but noone of my insider contacts (I unfortunately can't quote publicly) indicated so so far.