Akira Yamaoka
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Biography
Niigata, Japan (1993 – present)
He is best known for his work on the Silent Hill series for which he composed all the music and sound effects in all seven current games (excluding Silent Hill Play Novel for Game Boy Advance). Some of the music from the first four games was also remixed and used in the Silent Hill movie. He also played a doubly important role as producer of the third and fourth Silent Hill games (which were available for PlayStation 2/PC and PlayStation 2/Xbox/PC). His music from Silent Hill 2 was performed live in 2005 at the third Symphonic Game Music Concert in Leipzig, Germany and at the world-premiere of PLAY! A Video Game Symphony Live! on May 27, 2006 in Chicago, Illinois, where Yamaoka himself accompanied the orchestra with an electric guitar. As well, Yamaoka actively composes music for Konami’s Bemani line of games, particularly, the Beatmania IIDX series.
His first original, non-soundtrack album, iFUTURELIST, was released in January 2006.
Career
He joined Konami on September 21, 1993 after previously being a freelance music composer. He is most well known for his work for the Silent Hill series of video games, for which he composed all the music and sound effects in the whole series (excluding Silent Hill Play Novel for the Game Boy Advance and Esperándote in Silent Hill, composed by 村中りか (Rika Muranaka)).
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Silent Hill 2
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Silent Hill 4: The Room
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Frank_Hoorigan
Mary, could you really be in this town?
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guru_1972
Genius
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DarkAzula
@PROnikx, "Room of Angel" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcfMOV2-lhg под нее не грех и сдохнуть.)
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PROnikx
DarkAzula Что за трек ??? FappyFap похожее никогда и нигде не найдешь :)
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Keiyuu88
v The first link is just a promotional version and the second one is cut off at the end for some strange reason. Here's the full song and Yamaoka's remix.
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Kyzumi
The DIR EN GREY single that has a Akira remix is out! You can check the original song here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlJxiSdJSF8 and the remix here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WjqZP87b1E . This new song doesn't really sound like most of DIR EN GREY's work (they are usually much "heavier" - more on the melodic death metal/metacore side). so please check their other songs even if you didn't like it.
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EvilLilElmo
He's really nice in person and he took time out of his busy scheldue to see my wife and I in the hospital.
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Kissa_Kami
Yamaoka-san make an excellent job with Rinkaku's remix from DIR EN GREY <3!!!!, it's a very awesome and freaking good <333!!! I love him.
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pablofreire
please someone, send to my profile a download link of the new album, please please please
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dayana_vk
The new album is amazing, Dia de los Muertos reminds me of Silent Hill. I need more!
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FappyFap
Посоветуйте, плиз, что-нибудь похожее на Promise. Шииииииииикарный трек ^_^
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DarkAzula
трек под который режут Синтию Веласкес в метро самый пробирающий.
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Green_Light43
Great music.
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MrSomnambula
From his recent - Dia de los Muertos <3 ...also Sdatcher.
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<3
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withered_fairy
What is everyone here tagging the Lollipop Chainsaw stuff with? I think most of the tracks don't have an official name.
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withered_fairy
@RuanBastos: Nope, Downpour is still the worst. Not bad, just not as good as the others.
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