18 Facts About Hideki Naganuma

Hideki Naganuma was born on May 16,1972 and is a Japanese composer and DJ who primarily does work for video games.

Hideki Naganuma started his musical career by playing the electronic organ, aged five, under the influence of his older sister.

Hideki Naganuma then decided to have a job in the music business.

Hideki Naganuma was aiming to become a singer-songwriter in the J-pop industry, although he dropped this plan.

Hideki Naganuma's application was accepted, with voice editing for Shoujo Kakumei Utena: Itsuka Kakumei Sareru Monogatari and composition for Hip Jog Jog being among his first works with the company, the latter of which he worked with senior composer Kenichi Tokoi.

Hideki Naganuma took inspiration from big beat music for the game.

Hideki Naganuma would go on to compose for its sequel Jet Set Radio Future in 2002, along with Ollie King in 2003, developed by Smilebit.

Hideki Naganuma created a remix of "Fuusen Gum" for the anime Gintama, but similarly was not credited at the time.

Hideki Naganuma has continued to work on Sega games under his "skankfunk" alias, including Kurohyo: Ryu ga Gotoku Shinsho and Super Monkey Ball 3D.

In 2014, Hideki Naganuma contributed to the charity CD Game Music Prayer II for relief of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake with an original track titled "Aria di Maria".

In 2017, Hideki Naganuma contributed two new original songs for the game Hover.

In 2018, Hideki Naganuma released the track "Ain't Nothin' Like a Funky Beat" as a part of the Lethal League Blaze soundtrack, which featured other notable composers such as Frank Klepacki, Pixelord, Bignic, and Klaus Veen.

Hideki Naganuma was set to compose for Streets of Rage 4, but due to schedule complications and copyright ownership issues, he withdrew from the project in 2020.

Hideki Naganuma admitted that since leaving Sega, he has made attempts to work for Nintendo, after the topic was brought up by fans of the Splatoon franchise that he should have worked on the latest games' soundtrack, who drew parallels between it and his previous works.

Hideki Naganuma composed for indie game Bomb Rush Cyberfunk, which was released on August 18,2023.

Hideki Naganuma has expressed a desire to create an original album and clarified he is not active in the gaming industry.

Hideki Naganuma's music was produced to match the visual style of the games he was working on as closely as possible, and experimented with voices, cutting and rearranging samples to the point that they become nonsensical.

Since the release of Jet Set Radio, Hideki Naganuma's sound has incorporated many elements of breakbeat, and EDM.