Yuzo Koshiro on Composing for Streets of Rage, Techno and Programming | Red Bull Music Academy
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Legendary video game composer Yuzo Koshiro discussed the early days of his career, how he and Motohiro Kawashima sought inspiration in nightclubs for Streets of Rage and why he never let limitations stop him from pushing forward in this 2018 RBMA Lecture at Red Bull EWKND in Stockholm.
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TOPICS:
5:14 - Early days of video game music and the G.M.O label
18:48 - Discovering synthesizers and learning to program on the NEC PC-8801
28:21 - The arrival and importance of FM synthesis
33:09 - Breaking into the industry with Xanadu Scenario 2, Ys and Shinobi
43:18 - Discovering club music and breaking from the conventions of VGM
47:14 - Nightclubs, dance music and composing the soundtrack for Streets Of Rage with Western audiences in mind
1:04:29 - Creating his own tools to make video game music
1:07:56 - Making orchestral soundtracks for the Nintendo Super Famicom
1:11:44 - Ignoring the limitations of technology
MUSIC:
4:42 - Yuzo Koshiro - “Blast Power!”
21:07 - Junko Ozawa - “The Tower of Druaga”
30:24 - Hiroshi Kawaguchi - “Main Theme from Space Harrier”
38:00 - Yuzo Koshiro - “The Shinobi”
46:39 - Yuzo Koshiro - “Bare Knuckle”
1:02:36 - Yuzo Koshiro - “Go Straight”
1:07:27 - Track from ActRaiser BGM
1:11:05 - Yuzo Koshiro - “Fillmore”
Yuzo Koshiro is a Japanese composer, arranger, and programmer whose contributions helped change video game music. Having discovered video games and their music at an early age, Koshiro learnt to program using an NEC PC-8801 before landing his first jobs in the industry in early 1980s Tokyo, scoring the background music for games like Bosconian, Tower of Druaga and Sega’s 1987 hit Shinobi.
Breaking away from the conventions of early BGM soundtracks, which favored pop, rock and jazz, Koshiro setup his own company, Ancient, and quickly established himself as a pioneer in the field thanks to his programming knowledge and early mastery of FM sound chips. He made his biggest impact with the soundtrack to Sega’s early ’90s beat’em up series Streets Of Rage, taking cues from dance music including techno, house and drum & bass and as a result influencing generations of fans and artists such as Just Blaze, Flying Lotus and Ikonika. In 2017, Koshiro and longtime colleague Motohiro Kawashima embarked on a two-year world tour as part of RBMA’s Diggin’ In The Carts series performing their Streets of Rage scores live for the first time.
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How come I just discovered this content??
The man. The myth. The LEGEND!
TRUE
Yes sir!!
Fk yeah he is that guy wrote the sound track to life for a moment in time.
I remember the first time I watched "Diggin in the carts" (end of 2014). After watching all the instalments I bought a flight ticket to Japan for February 2015. I wanted to visit "Yellow", the club where Yuzo Koshiro used to hang out when he composed the SOR soundtrack. So what I recall from this anecdote was that the original "Yellow" club closed some years ago, although it reopened under a different name. I headed to Roppongi hoping to get into the club somehow. I managed to find it but it was closed (I think it was temporary closed for reforms at that time). Anyway, funny story. A few years later, I think December 2017, I managed to see Yuzo Koshiro and Motohiro Kawashima at Fabric in London, so the circle was finally closed :)
@Ambient Music: To make you feel better No, I didn't meet him personally, I just saw him (and Motohiro Kawashima) live in London.
Yuzo makes great video game music content better then today music imho.
One of the greatest Pioneers, trendsetters , visionaries of the 80's and 90's circa Japan, which amazingly enthusiastic passion for his career has elevated the music on the titles he helped developed to cult status gems, ... this is quite a fascinating interview to say the least 👍
Yuzo has influenced and change my life i love his music production and composition so much
He basically stole from black and latino hip hop hand house producers from the 90’s, to be honest.
I like his work but I like the people he stole from music alot better.
@@GMAV3RICKbro, you got me laughing. The tr-808 and tr-909 were made by Japanese people even some of the synths electro funk and house wouldnt exist because at the end of the day without those drums that music wouldnt exist.
What a legend. This man is one of the main reasons I fell in love with electronic dance music ♥️
one of the greatest. He's donig the music for the Genesis mini this year
I just listened to the incredible OST to Streets of Rage III yesterday and I was wondering about how it was made, what an amzing coincidence that you guys uploaded this today!
yes
Unpopular opinion incoming:
I don't like the SoR3 soundtrack. Prefer the first and second.
3 was definitely the best 🔥🔥❤️
Honestly no one likes SOR3 music. Its the worst ST of the series and is pretty bad overall outside of the series.
its ok im here it was ahead of its time trying new things didn’t pay off for some people I liked most of the tracks some were too much but the 1st and second are definitely the best
Yuzo Koshiro is a genius
What an awesome interview! Thanks for the upload!!! 👊👽💪😎
Just realized this was updated on my birthday. How wonderful that this video by my top favorite video game composer would drop on this day! Thanks! 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
Yuzo speaks English so perfectly, I don't understand why he's speaking Japanese in the interview
Trust me, in situations like this, you got to have high confidence to do that. I remember living in japan having to do presentations to a plethora of people in Japanese, stuff is not easy at all. So I think it's abit of nervousness.
Funny story of Actraiser, Nobuo Uematsu and his beard xD
Thanks for this! I would really have liked to be there.
Three words: BRAVE NEW WORLD
all hail Yuzo!!!!
great ost
Legend
Omg 😦 the man himself 😮
The Don. Such a huge influence in me.
Thank god for the MD 1 headphone output socket! I used to rock out to all Yuzos soundtracks at school using my Walkman.
노래도 잘만드는데 얼굴도 잘생겼어 그리고 젊어보여!
This guys a legend idgaf
3:24! he said Bare Knuckle!
Boys a god
1:15:27 SOR4
面白かった！(´・ω・`)
25:43 rude!
what was that for...?
@@RWL2012 the interviewer flips the middle finger
So he make the music for street of rage 4 or not ?
I think so, He is working secretly together with kawashima...
@@gnen7680 and 3 other composers as well including the original Ninja Gaiden NES composer.
He composed four tracks but he collaborated with a few others.
1:04:30
I wish I could understand Japanese.
What on earth is going on in this interview?
Guy speaks in English, Yuzo answers in Japanese despite being able to speak English, the interviewer hears the lady translating from Japanese to English but then the interviewer doesn't explain to the audience and us viewers what was said, and instead continues the conversation...
Bizarre.
Switch the CC/subtitles on.
@DirtyJokesFan yeah i shouldn't have to really, what about the people at the venue? Very strange format
@@simmycutters3757 I’m going to watch the whole thing later, but from the first few minutes I think I saw the audience wearing headsets like the host.
He's a hack and blatantly ripped off many pop/dance music songs and tracks, almost note for note in Streets of Rage series.
Yep. Mainly he’s a rip off of Terry Lewis and Jimmy Jam.
How unfathomably embarrassing for you to call this genius composer and programmer, a hack. You must have done absolutely nothing with your time on earth, and are insanely jealous.
Roland tr-808 and tr-909 are made by Japanese dudes im Spanish and know most of the music synthesizers and drum machines gears history of 80s and 90s.
Tr-808 and tr-909 are Japanese made machines. I'm Spanish American and know most of the 80s and 90s music gear history. The Japanese made the drum machines possible for house,hip hop,techno
Regardless , it's okay to acknowledge that he was influenced by BLACK house music. People forget that black people were the main ones doing house back in the day. He definitely is a elite talent but people need to also know how much black people influenced so many genres of music.