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I'm pretty sure that Kimitaka Matsumae and Jouji Ijima were never Sega's employees. Although both were SST Band members, only Hiro, Koichi Namiki and Takenobu Mitsuyoshi were from Sega Sound Team.
Here's what Matsumae said on ga-core's interview: Quote:
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Interesting.
Also from a ga-core interview, Yoshihiro Ohno states that it was Kazusuke Obi of G.M.O. & Scitron who first came up with the name SST Band. Question: So next, we have to talk about your ‘Game Music Band’. Answer: I think this idea was already starting to sprout in the later days of G.M.O. The sound sections of several game companies started saying: “If we’re releasing records, then we want to be directly involved in the actual performance” so we decided we were going to need Team names (Band names) and that’s how Alph Lyla, the Kukeiha Club and Zuntata were born. Question: Did you name the S.S.T. Band? Answer: That was Mr. Obi’s doing. He created it with the double meaning of ‘Sega Sound Team’ and ‘Super Sonic Team’ Question: It’s still very interesting that the S.S.T. Band was the only project to be promoted under the leadership of Scitron/Pony Canyon though. Answer: Don’t forget we made an original album as well (‘Blind Spot’). At that time we wanted to make an album with nothing but songs that could be used for a Sports tie-up, so they wrote a bunch of songs for us. Last edited by Carl; Apr 3, 2010 at 03:29 PM. |
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Wow, thanks a bunch for this translation, Carl! This interview was very revealing.
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VIRTUAL AUDIO F-1 GP THE EXHAUST SOUND VIRTUAL AUDIO F-1 GP THE EXHAUST SOUND '92 I Can Survive F-1 Grand Prix 1992 Tachyon F-1 Grand Prix 1992 Well, I've removed Jouji Ijima and Matsumae from Sega Sound Team unit. Please let me know if anyone has any objection. |
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Is having the SEGA logo ok for being the group picture? I'm not too keen on the copyright rules for that. If anybody feels like it shouldn't be there, then by all means remove it.
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Is Keisuke Koga actually a Sega employee? I couldn't find any information about him (mainly because vgmdb doesn't have kanji for his name, probably). The one album he's linked to here on vgmdb lists him with (M2) after his name, whereas some other people in the liner notes have (SEGA) after their names.
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Yeah he's definitely an M2 employee, good catch. I was overly aggressive assigning people to this group when I first made it (see Revoc's first post), and that one slipped by.
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From what I remember (there may be a lot more), Kazuhiko Nagai, Kazuki Takagi, Yoji Ishii, Tetsuya Kawauchi, Tomoyuki Kawamura, You Takada, Keisuke Tsukahara, Mariko Nanba, Junko Shiratsu, Seirou Okamoto, and Fumie Kumatani have all left Sega. Please update this, thanks.
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I'm sure you're right about them, but do you have anything explicitly showing those folks have left? I'm talking stuff like social media/interviews, being credited like "Composer (A Company Other Than Sega)," a coworker saying they left, etc. I (personally) prefer not to mark someone as having left without having hard evidence, not just on the basis of them having vanished off the face of the planet.
I did go ahead and mark Tomoyuki Kawamura (Studio MUU2) and Yoji Ishii (Artoon/ARZEST/etc.) for sure. |
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Nah, I tried looking for evidence a while back myself and couldn't find anything official.
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Source on Nanba and Ohtani? I haven't been following them on social media lately.
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On other composers' friend lists, there is a person named "Ohtani Mariko". On the other names section of that profile, Nanba is listed. I wouldn't be surprised if she married Tomoya Ohtani, as they've very frequently worked closely.
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According to Hideki Naganuma, Fumie Kumatani left Sega in 2008, but still composed for a few more games after leaving. Interestingly, most of her post-2008 stuff was done with Kenichi Tokoi.
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Added a couple people listed under Sound Team in several YAKUZA games.
Yusuke Sawai Asami Takeo Satoshi Okamura Ai Fujihara (藤原 愛) Fujihara so far seems to have only been credited in YAKUZA: LIKE A DRAGON, though maybe they'll surface in an earlier project later down the line. Interested to see where they show up next. |
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