Friday, July 24, 2015

Music and From Software

Chu Ishikawa is an awesome Japanese industrial composer who is probably most famous for creating the music of Tetsuo: The Iron Man in 1989. By doing sound design work for several movies, he (and later his percussion group Der Eisenrost) ended up also having a major influence on video game music in Japan throughout the 90s. What's less obvious, however, is whether or not he was directly involved in working on music for From Software's King's Field series. Now, Chu Ishikawa worked on the soundtracks for every Takashi Miike film in the 90s. Except for ONE, Full Metal Yakuza (1997). This film's soundtrack is credited to a contract group called Sound Kids Corp. (sometimes credited as simply SoundKids). However, Full Metal Yakuza's soundtrack sounds pretty much the same as any other Chu Ishikawa soundtrack for a Miike movie.