Nobuyoshi Sano, better known as sanodg, is a Japanese video game composer, musician and record producer.
16 Facts About Nobuyoshi Sano
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Nobuyoshi Sano is best known for scoring tracks for the Ridge Racer and Tekken series, as well as Drakengard.
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In elementary school, Sano listened to Yellow Magic Orchestra and played Space Invaders, gaining interest in both video games and music.
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Nobuyoshi Sano scored "Rare Hero" for Ridge Racer, a series he has composed additional music for since.
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Nobuyoshi Sano contributed several tracks to albums on Hosoe's Troubadour Record label and was a member of his groups, Oriental Magnetic Yellow and Manikyua-Dan.
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Game director Katsuhiro Harada initially did not understand the big beat direction, but Nobuyoshi Sano was able to convince him that it would work well in the series.
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In 2000, Nobuyoshi Sano composed two tracks for Ridge Racer V, whose soundtrack was directed by Kohta Takahashi, who selected "cutting edge" artists and composers to contribute to the soundtrack, including colleague Yuu Miyake and German trance musician Mijk van Dijk.
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In 2001, Nobuyoshi Sano left Namco citing unhappiness with its recent developments, and subsequently joined Cavia as a sound director.
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For 2004's Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Nobuyoshi Sano took inspiration from drum and bass to match the game's sense of speed.
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In 2006, Nobuyoshi Sano released a compilation album titled sanodg works, featuring a selection of tracks he considers to be his best.
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Nobuyoshi Sano served as the music supervisor for Bullet Witch; he requested then-SuperSweep composer Masashi Yano to participate due to his expertise with Hollywood-inspired orchestral scores.
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Yano and Nobuyoshi Sano were originally going to collaborate on the score, with Yano composing orchestral parts and Nobuyoshi Sano handling breakbeat and bass.
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Nobuyoshi Sano formed a trio of the same name consisting of himself, Yasunori Mitsuda and Michio Okamiya in order to promote the program.
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Nobuyoshi Sano intended it to be used for any genre the user desired to create music in, rather than a particular genre like chiptune or techno.
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Nobuyoshi Sano chose to model the synth on the Korg MS-10 as he bought this synth during his teenage years, and felt that the DS vaguely resembled the synth.
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Nobuyoshi Sano will score the upcoming mobile FMV game Clive is a Good Guy, developed by British game studio Indolent Games and set to be released in 2024.