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EXTRA 2008 Q&A: Takenobu Mitsuyoshi

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Takenobu Mitsuyoshi discusses his music for such Sega arcade series as Daytona USA, Sega Rally and Virtua Fighter.

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Q&A: Michiko Naruke's music, from console to stage

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Influential game composer Michiko Naruke discusses her music for the Wild Arms series, getting her start at Telenet Japan, and the upcoming Beyond the Yellow Brick Road for Nintendo DS.

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GM4A Interview with Brendan "Mr MAGFest" Becker

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Anthony of Game Music 4 All talks with Brendan Becker, better known as Mr. MAGFest for his organizing and running of the Music and Gaming Festival.

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EXTRA 2008 Q&A: kuske and quad

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Kuske of Kplecraft and quad of luvtrax discuss performing together at the 2008 EXTRA Hyper Game Music Event, organized by 5pb Records.

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BBtv: Bubblyfish at Blip Festival 2008 with Joel Johnson

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Today on Boing Boing tv, Joel Johnson visits Blip Festival 2008, the megalocus of live chiptunes music, where Game Boys met Atari STs with Amiga visuals for four evenings of square wave fun.  Also Bubblyfish.

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Q&A: The Korg DS Trio

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Nobuyoshi Sano (Ridge Racer), Michio Okamiya (The Black Mages) and Yasunori Mitsuda (Chrono Trigger) of the Korg DS Trio discusses the making of their music creation software for the Nintendo DS and live performance at the EXTRA Hyper Game Music Event. 

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Interview with Inon Zur about Fallout 3

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Inon Zur discusses his music for Fallout 3.

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Q&A: Remixing The Mega Man 9 Soundtrack

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Mega Man 9 Arrange Soundtrack includes the participation of composers from Capcom's 8-bit era and other musical guests.  Here, producer Ippo Yamada offers an introduction to the process behind its creation, joined by Inti Creates composer Ryo Kawakami and guest arranger Akari Kaida.

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Hiroki Ogawa and the path to Dog Ear Records

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Hiroki Ogawa discusses his role as director of Nobuo Uematsu's recording studio Dog Ear Records.

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Uraken EXTRA 2008 Q&A

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Uraken has contributed as a musician to Konami's Beatmania series of games, 5pb Records' Famison 8Bit IdolM@ster albums and Konami's Otomedius G, due out this Fall in Japan.

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Jeff Curry, The Outer Rim Q&A

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Jeff Curry is the composer and bassist for the Tokyo-based band The Outer Rim, and performed at last year's EXTRA Hyper Game Music Event.

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Yuzo Koshiro Q&A: Etrian Odyssey

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Following the EXTRA Hyper Game Music Event, Yuzo Koshiro discusses the process of composing for the Etrian Odyssey series.

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Yasunori Mitsuda Soma Bringer interview

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In this exclusive interview, Yasunori Mitsuda updates listeners of his music on his currently Japan-exclusive RPG Soma Bringer, while also sharing his thoughts on the subject of being an internationally recognized videogame composer, as demonstrated by the orchestral concert taking place in Australia titled "Destiny Dreamer's Alliance."

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Mega Man 9 music interview with Inti Creates' Ippo Yamada

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Inti Creates composer and sound designer Ippo Yamada describes the process behind creating music and sound effects for Mega Man 9, providing details on the upcoming arranged album.

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Baiyon Q&A: PixelJunk Eden art and music

Source submitted by jeriaska on 2008-09-27 - 0 comments

Baiyon is a DJ, art director and graphics designer based in Kyoto, Japan.  For PixelJunk Eden, the artist worked together with Q-Games as the director of art and music. The original soundtrack for the game has just been released this week by Aniplex.