Rock biography and video game medley
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Manabu Namiki
Japanese video game composer
Manabu Namiki (並木 学, Namiki Manabu, born September 13, 1971) is a Japanese video game composer who is primarily known for his work in shoot 'em up games. He has worked at game companies such as Allumer, NMK, Raizing and M2. In October 2002, Namiki, Hitoshi Sakimoto, and Masaharu Iwata founded the music production company Basiscape, whom he worked with until 2011.
Early life
[edit]Namiki became interested in arcade games during his childhood. He never received any musical education, nor learned to play any instruments. He became enthusiastic about music from video games, as well as hard rock and heavy metal bands such as Whitesnake and Metallica. After buying an MSX2, he learnt how to program music in BASIC and attempted to imitate the riffs of the bands he enjoyed. He also joined a video game music cover band in 1989.[1]
Allumer, NMK and Raizing (1990–2000)
[edit]In 1990, he joined Allumer as a part-time graphic d
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Fredrik Larsson, well known as FreddeGredde (gredde means 'cream' in swedish), is a 29 year old self-taught artist, living in Gävle, Sweden. He became popular on internet because of his videos on Youtube, where he sings all different type of music, since medleys of video-games or TV shows themes, but original songs too, most of all played just bygd him. Keyboard and electrical, classic and bass gitarr are among the instruments he plays, also accordion, clarke tin whistle, flute, harmonica and kazoo. Besides music, he maintains a wide range of creative interests, including animation and video editing.
His first skiva, entitled Thirteen Eight, was officially released on September 13th, 2011. Fredde played all the instruments of the skiva, except the drums. You can buy it at Amazon.
The tjänsteman videos of Solace Distant (the first single of the skiva, directed bygd Fredde's brother, Robin Engström), Lonely Starlight (the second single), and The Star Song (the third
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Motoi Sakuraba
Note: This biography was written exclusively for Square Enix Music Online by Chris. The act of using it without advance written permission is regarded as a copyright infringement. Thanks to Motoi Sakuraba & the Wolfteam/Telenet Legacy for providing a large proportion of the information given here and to Datschge for aiding the editing of this biography. It was last updated on March 26, 2009.
Born on August 5, 1965 in Akita, Motoi Sakuraba is a prolific progressive rock musician who specialises in creating video game music. His music has also featured on anime and TV drama soundtracks, live concerts, and independent albums. Sakuraba's love for music developed after he received piano lessons while in the middle of preschool. He enjoyed learning under a kind teacher, but quit for a while when she was replaced by a more severe one. He started to become much more active in sports and spent his days and nights playing basketball and volleyball. Neverth