Shinji Hosoe, known as Megaten and Sampling Masters MEGA, is a Japanese video game composer and musician most famous for scoring Ridge Racer, Street Fighter EX and many Namco arcade games between 1987 and 1996.
12 Facts About Shinji Hosoe
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Shinji Hosoe's family moved to Chofu while he was in first grade of elementary school.
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Shinji Hosoe listened to electronic music by artists such as Jean-Michel Jarre, Kraftwerk and Yellow Magic Orchestra.
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Shinji Hosoe joined Namco in 1985 as a part-time game tester and CG artist.
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Shinji Hosoe started off tracks by programming a rhythm into the sequencer, then playing melodies with a keyboard on-top, and later adding new parts or re-writing existing parts.
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Shinji Hosoe composed for Cyber Sled earlier that year, which he considers to be his greatest work, although it received a mixed reception from critics, who criticized it for being repetitive.
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Shinji Hosoe left Namco to join Arika in 1996, feeling that his salary would not increase any further.
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One of SuperSweep's first works was the soundtrack of Arika's Technictix in 2001, which Shinji Hosoe considers to be one of his most significant contributions to game music.
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Shinji Hosoe would go on to compose for later titles in the Zero Escape series, including Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward in 2012 and Zero Time Dilemma in 2016.
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Shinji Hosoe founded the record label Troubadour Record in 1991.
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Shinji Hosoe has released albums under the Sampling Masters name with Saso, including the Over Drive Hell series of albums.
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Shinji Hosoe has participated in the Nanosweep album series, which features original tracks by composers from both SuperSweep and Hiroshi Okubo's circle nanosounds.