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From:
Joe Rice
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Date:
Tue, 16 Jul 1996 19:07:51 -0700
Subject:
Re: (idm) Keep Music Underground (not)
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At 6:42 PM -0700 7/16/96, HUNG LIKE A BULL. wrote:
quoted 16 lines Super Mario Bros. was good too. I wonder who did Nintedo's music.>>Super Mario Bros. was good too. I wonder who did Nintedo's music. > >Gentleman by the name of Koji Kondo, I believe. I owe this bit of information >to the thousands of hours I spent with my SNES during my youth. > >THere's another Japanese video game composer by the name of Yuzo Koshiro who >was _very_ big during Sega's heydey in the early 90's. Some of his scores were >available on CD and became quite popular if I remember correctly. While >certainly not IDM, a good number of his tunes were very housey + dance-funky. >Has anyone else heard of this fellow? > >I remember reading an adverteasement for a Neo-Geo cart entitled "Viewpoint" >that featured [boasted, more like] a house soundtrack. Ha. Ha ha ha. > >And I guess while I'm still on the embarrassing subject, what techno artists >have composed for video games besides Orbital?
I remember an old Atari ST game featuring Bomb The Bass. Joe (:Joe Rice:____________:joe@psychoactive.com:____________:ambient@netcom.com:) (:"Oh, the turntables are his instruments!" :) (:"But I can't tell what sound that record is making!" :) (:"I know! He puts them on and off and you never know! I've never seen :) (: anything like it!" :)