Takahito Eguchi is a Japanese composer, orchestrator, and musician.
17 Facts About Takahito Eguchi
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Takahito Eguchi is best known for collaborating with Noriko Matsueda on Final Fantasy X-2 and with Tomoya Ohtani on several Sonic the Hedgehog games.
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Takahito Eguchi attended the Tokyo Conservatoire Shobi where he acquainted Matsueda.
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Takahito Eguchi worked at Square Enix from 1998 to 2003 and currently works at Sega.
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Takahito Eguchi created mostly electronic music in the early part of his career but now focuses on orchestral composition and arrangement, along with performing keyboards.
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Takahito Eguchi enrolled at the Tokyo Conservatoire Shobi, where he met long-term composing partner Noriko Matsueda.
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Takahito Eguchi gave Matsueda advice on music manipulation during her first game project, Front Mission, in 1995.
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Takahito Eguchi joined Square in 1998; his first job was composing the 1999 title Racing Lagoon alongside Matsueda.
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Takahito Eguchi created a lot more music than on previous soundtracks; a large amount of the music produced was not used in the game and there were many post-production demands.
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Takahito Eguchi composed the pop ballad "Forevermore", which was arranged and provided lyrics by Narada Michael Walden and Sunny Hilden and performed by Shanice in "Love Is the Gift", the ending theme to the English-language versions of the game.
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In 2002, Takahito Eguchi arranged the track "Hand in Hand -Reprise-" for Yoko Shimomura's score to Kingdom Hearts.
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Takahito Eguchi reunited with Matsueda to compose Final Fantasy X-2.
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Takahito Eguchi has mixed Shimomura's arrangements for the Dark Chronicle Premium Arrange album and performed piano on her vocal album Murmur.
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Takahito Eguchi has stated that most of the time he composes and arranges music is at his home studio, where his friends help out by recording acoustic instruments; if the quality of these recordings are not adequate Eguchi replaces them at the company's studio.
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Takahito Eguchi has said that by the time he is finished creating the music, he is only sleeping three to four hours a week.
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Since joining Sega Digital Studio in 2006, Takahito Eguchi has switched over to almost an exclusively orchestral style.
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Takahito Eguchi cites Igor Stravinsky, Ryuichi Sakamoto, and Miles Davis as musical influences.