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Artist Interview: Shinji Hosoe and SuperSweep Team

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Are you familiar with legendary composer Shinji Hosoe and his studio, SuperSweep? Hosoe-san has worked on key franchises across his decades of experience, making a name for himself as a master of electronic music and shmup titles in the early days, and establishing the sounds for franchises such as Zero Escape, Ridge Racer, and Street Fighter EX. He’s a sought after arranger, having worked on arrange albums for Nintendo (Dr. Mario, Metroid Fusion), Mega Man, Ragnarok Online, Phantasy Star, and more. He also serves the game music community through SuperSweep Records, continuing to publish game music on CD format in Japan.

Read his full biography, credits list, and hear some sample music on his Scarlet Moon Artists page. Check below for an interview with Hosoe-san about his style, inspirations, and collaboration with Scarlet Moon.

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Artist Interview: Hiroki Kikuta

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While Hiroki Kikuta is best known for his SNES-era scores to Secret of Mana and Trials of Mana, he’s also been an indie game developer himself, and worked on productions big and small, from his time doing a lot of eroge titles and original works up through his partnership with Scarlet Moon where he’s constantly in demand to contribute to indie RPGs. His biggest titles recently include Indivisible, Trinity Trigger, Infinity Knights: Xross, and Visions of Mana.

Read his full biography, credits list, and hear some sample music on his Scarlet Moon Artists page. Check below for an interview with Hiroki Kikuta about his style, inspirations, and collaboration with Scarlet Moon.

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Artist Interview: Peter Reid Jones

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We’ve had the pleasure of working with Peter Reid Jones hot off his work on the RWBY animated series. Since that time, we’ve worked on over a dozen indie game titles and counting. We admire Peter’s versatility, enthusiasm, and can-do attitude. Hear his incredible work in RWBY: Arrowfell, Evil Tonight, Dark Deception, and many more.

Read his full biography, credits list, and hear some sample music on his Scarlet Moon Artists page. Check below for an interview with Peter Reid Jones about his style, inspirations, and collaboration with Scarlet Moon.

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Artist Interview: Ken “coda” Snyder

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Ken “coda” Snyder is definitely our retro music extraordinaire, making a name for himself in the chiptune scene. He is versatile, however, writing music in a variety of retro and modern formats, touching on everything from pop and electronic to rock and more. His biggest works in the indie game space include his FM score to Read Only Memories: Neurodiver and his upbeat electronic contributions to the Drive Ahead! series. He’s also a popular arranger, having contributed remixes to Shovel Knight, Fez, and Duke Nukem 3D.

Read his full biography, credits list, and hear some sample music on his Scarlet Moon Artists page. Check below for an interview with coda about his style, inspirations, and collaboration with Scarlet Moon.

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Artist Interview: Goomin “Nauts” Nam

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Goomin “Nauts” Nam is a renowned composer in his native South Korea, and as a game music enthusiast, I’ve been a longtime fan. When I started Scarlet Moon, it was important to create awareness around the amazing game music coming out of South Korea, including that of Goomin with his work Monarch: Heroes of a New Age, which was one of the first releases on our label. He’s worked on popular titles such as Ragnarok Online, DJMAX, Bar Oasis, Langrisser, and so many more, bringing his incredible melodic sensibilities and production to fans around the globe.

Read his full biography, credits list, and hear some sample music on his Scarlet Moon Artists page. Check below for an interview with Goomin Nam about his style, inspirations, and collaboration with Scarlet Moon.

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Artist Interview: Yuko Komiyama

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Yuko Komiyama is a composer with style! Fans know her work across the Monster Hunter series, but she’s also contributed to the Mega Man X, FINAL FANTASY, and Contra series, and to brands ranging from Disney to Pokémon.

Read her full biography, credits list, and hear some sample music on her Scarlet Moon Artists page. Check below for an interview with Yuko Komiyama about her style, inspirations, and collaboration with Scarlet Moon.

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Artist Interview: Soyo Oka

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Soyo Oka is a legend of the early Nintendo era, working on some of the most iconic titles from Ice Hockey on the NES to Super Mario Kart, Pilotwings, and Sim City on the SNES. She was one of the most prominent women working in game music during this era and continues to serve as an inspiration through her original works and now her contributions to indie games around the world.

Read her full biography, credits list, and hear some sample music on her Scarlet Moon Artists page. Check below for an interview with Soyo Oka about her style, inspirations, and collaboration with Scarlet Moon.

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Interview: Visions of Mana Music Team

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Visions of Mana is just weeks away! The first entry in the Mana series in quite some time, we were excited to learn about the game alongside the news that series composer Hiroki Kikuta would be returning to write a portion of the score. We now understand that the score was split three ways, with Kikuta handling cinematic music, Tsuyoshi Sekito handling action and battle music, and Ryo Yamazaki writing exploration and event music. We’ve been able to get a word in with all three composers about their history with the franchise and their experience working on Visions of Mana, including the gear they used for the score.

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Interview: FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH Lead Composer Mitsuto Suzuki

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FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH is out in the wild and everyone’s taking note of the meticulous care the team has taken in re-imagining this definitive RPG. The amount of music written for the game is massive, with eight discs total for the special edition (seven for the standard edition), so when we say it took an army of talent to create it, that’s not an exaggeration.

At the helm of the score for this second installment is SQUARE ENIX composer Mitsuto Suzuki, who is no stranger to the FINAL FANTASY series, having contributed to FINAL FANTASY XIII-2, LIGHTNING RETURNS FINAL FANTASY XIII, MOBIUS FINAL FANTASY, and FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE. Being a huge fan of his work, and loving the interview series conducted on the SQUARE ENIX MUSIC channel on YouTube, we had a few questions of our own (provided by Scarlet Moon’s Dale North) related to the direction he took, his process, and his gear.

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Interview: Career Retrospective with Osamu Kubota

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[EDITOR’S NOTE: We’ve been fortunate to have been in touch with game music enthusiast Michael Kobzik about interviews conducted with videogame composers, and have agreed to partner to publish them on the Scarlet Moon blog. What better way to start than with an extensive interview looking at Scarlet Moon Artists composer Osamu Kubtota’s storied career! Enjoy. – Jayson]

Osamu Kubota is a legendary composer with a long, storied career. He’s most famous for his work in Konami’s BEMANI sound division, though his career before and after is similarly impressive. We found some time to speak with Osamu Kubota about his long career and recent work.

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