![]() ![]() ![]() Music from the Ys games were also employed in the Ys anime. The TurboGrafx-CD versions of the first three Ys games (from 1989 to 1991) are notable for their very early use of Red Book audio in video games. These early music productions mainly featured rock and fusion music. His most well-known Falcom works are his soundtracks for Sorcerian (1987) and the early Ys games, Ys I (1987) and Ys II (1988). He then produced the soundtrack to Dragon Slayer IV / Legacy of the Wizard (1987), which was influenced by the sounds of early Konami games. His compositions for these early games were influenced by arcade game music and Japanese bands such as The Alfee. He also wrote the opening song in Romancia that same year. Falcom used compositions from the PC-8801 demo tape he had sent them in their Dragon Slayer action role-playing game Xanadu Scenario II, for its opening theme and several dungeon levels. Koshiro's first composing job was with Nihon Falcom in 1986 at the age of 18. In a 1992 interview, Koshiro said that his favorite music genres are new wave, dance music, technopop, classical, and hard rock, and that his favorite Western bands are Van Halen and Soul II Soul. The video game music soundtracks to these games inspired him to become a video game composer. The video games that influenced him most were The Tower of Druaga (1984), Space Harrier (1985), and Gradius (1985). The sequencing skills and experience he gained from this would later be utilized in his early video game projects. While he was still in high school during the early 1980s, Koshiro began composing music on the NEC PC-8801 as a hobby, including mockups of early arcade game music from Namco, Konami, and Sega. Everything Koshiro has learned after that has since been self-taught. In 1975, he began taking music lessons from Joe Hisaishi and studied with him for three years. She taught him how to play the piano at the age of three, and by the age of five, he had a strong command of it. Koshiro was born in Tokyo on December 12, 1967. The soundtracks for the latter have been cited by some to be ahead of their time. He has been cited as creating some of the most memorable game music of the 1980s and 1990s contributing for games such as Nihon Falcom's Dragon Slayer and Ys series, as well as Sega's The Revenge of Shinobi and Streets of Rage series. Koshiro and his sister Ayano founded the game development company Ancient in 1990, of which he remains the president. He is often regarded as one of the most influential innovators in chiptune and video game music, producing music in a number of genres including rock, jazz, symphonic, and various electronic genres such as house, electro, techno, trance, and hip hop. Yuzo Koshiro ( 古代 祐三, Koshiro Yūzō, born December 12, 1967) is a Japanese composer and sound programmer. ![]()
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