Junya Nakano is best known for scoring Threads of Fate and co-composing Final Fantasy X for Squaresoft, arranging for Dawn of Mana and the Nintendo DS version of Final Fantasy IV for Square Enix, and scoring arcade video games such as X-Men and Mystic Warriors for Konami.
17 Facts About Junya Nakano
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Junya Nakano was introduced to music at the age of three when his parents offered him lessons in the electronic organ.
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Junya Nakano is noted for his ambient style and for using percussion, timbre, and rhythm in his compositions.
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Junya Nakano's parents introduced him to music when he was three years old, offering him lessons in the electronic organ through the Yamaha Music Foundation; they encouraged him to join some brass bands.
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Junya Nakano created four pieces for the 1996 video game Front Mission: Gun Hazard, which featured composers Nobuo Uematsu, Yasunori Mitsuda, and Masashi Hamauzu.
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In 1996, Junya Nakano joined several of Square's composers to create the soundtrack for the fighting game Tobal No 1; he contributed three compositions.
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Hamauzu and Junya Nakano became friends after working on Front Mission: Gun Hazard and Tobal No 1, and they have later collaborated on several titles.
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In 1997, Junya Nakano served as synthesizer programmer for the score to Front Mission: Alternative.
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Junya Nakano composed the soundtrack for the Japan-only adventure game Another Mind, which he was given a deadline of two months to complete.
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Since scoring Threads of Fate, Junya Nakano has collaborated with several composers on major projects instead of being the sole composer.
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In 2006, Junya Nakano created seven tracks for the Xbox 360 game Project Sylpheed, which featured several other composers.
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Junya Nakano was selected to arrange half of Final Fantasy IVs Nintendo DS remake under the supervision of Uematsu, and composed the soundtrack to its 2008 sequel, Final Fantasy IV: The After Years.
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On December 31,2009, Junya Nakano confirmed that he had left Square Enix and would be joining his former mentor and collaborator Yuji Takenouchi's supergroup "GeOnDan", whom have since disbanded.
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Junya Nakano is best known for creating ambient music with percussive, timbral, and rhythmic elements.
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For Final Fantasy X, Junya Nakano was responsible for most of the ambient-styled compositions, which featured percussion, timbre, and rhythm.
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Junya Nakano stated in the original soundtrack's liner notes that he wanted to create music with a "vibrant and dynamic feel" that tied together his years of experience with game music.
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Junya Nakano cites Hamauzu as the colleague he admires most at Square Enix, and is particularly interested in the sounds he creates.