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Akira YAMAOKA (山岡晃 YAMAOKA Akira, born February 6, 1968 in Niigata, Japan) has composed music for dozens of Konami video games. Yamaoka attended Tokyo Art College, where he studied product design and interior. He joined Konami on September 21, 1993, after previously being a freelance music composer.
He is best known for his work on the Silent Hill series for which he composed all the music and sound effects in all five current games (excluding Silent Hill Play Novel for Game Boy Advance), as well as composing all music for the newly released Silent Hill: Homecoming. Some of the music from the first four games was also remixed and used in the Silent Hill movie. He also played a doubly important role as producer of the third and fourth Silent Hill games (which were available for PlayStation 2/PC and PlayStation 2/Xbox/PC). His music from Silent Hill 2 was performed live in 2005 at the third Symphonic Game Music Concert in Leipzig, Germany and at the world-premiere of PLAY! A Video Game Symphony on May 27, 2006 in Chicago, Illinois, where Yamaoka himself accompanied the orchestra with an electric guitar. As well, Yamaoka actively composes music for Konami’s Bemani line of games, particularly, the Beatmania IIDX series.
His first original, non-soundtrack album, iFUTURELIST, was released in January 2006.
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He is best known for his work on the Silent Hill series for which he composed all the music and sound effects in all five current games (excluding Silent Hill Play Novel for Game Boy Advance), as well as composing all music for the newly released Silent Hill: Homecoming. Some of the music from the first four games was also remixed and used in the Silent Hill movie. He also played a doubly important role as producer of the third and fourth Silent Hill games (which were available for PlayStation 2/PC and PlayStation 2/Xbox/PC). His music from Silent Hill 2 was performed live in 2005 at the third Symphonic Game Music Concert in Leipzig, Germany and at the world-premiere of PLAY! A Video Game Symphony on May 27, 2006 in Chicago, Illinois, where Yamaoka himself accompanied the orchestra with an electric guitar. As well, Yamaoka actively composes music for Konami’s Bemani line of games, particularly, the Beatmania IIDX series.
His first original, non-soundtrack album, iFUTURELIST, was released in January 2006.
There is also a polish metal band called “Silent Hill”. They will hopefully find their place on a dedicated artist page [“Silent Hill (band)” perhaps?] soon.
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Room of Angel
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Forest
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True
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White Noiz
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Theme of Laura (Reprise)
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Your Rain
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Waverer
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Null Moon
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Alone in the Town
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Ordinary Vanity
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The Day of Night
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A World of Madness
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BunnyBoots wrote:
he's really good composing music :)
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blue_nightmare wrote:
The new soundtrack is really nice. It sounds a bit like 0rigins (and SH0's soundtrack's wicked!), but it's different at the same time... I still like SH2's soundtrack better, though.
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Nightsan wrote:
^__^
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Podzemni wrote:
Love the new soundtrack. If you embraced that Origins sound, this one is pretty much the logical step from that direction. 10 more days 'till the release of the game. Can't wait. :)
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EdgeDrugAddict wrote:
God. The Willie Nelson cover is perfect.
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Self-MadeWolf wrote:
@downclover: "Devil's Laughter" is nothing when you compare it to SH 1 ost.
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qishmish wrote:
creeping distress is pretty
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dawnclover wrote:
"Devil's Laughter" is crazy awesome
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Goonz wrote:
Anyone noticed how the riff to Acceptance is just like the one in the Lullaby from "Rosemary's baby ?"
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Goonz wrote:
Origins was v.good. I still have to get into this one but I can say that "Searching the Past" is great.
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GrayChild wrote:
Yes, the new OST while not up to par with the SH1-4 is way better than the Origins and Homecoming ones. "Ice" is one of his best works so far, left me speechless.
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ARGBDude wrote:
um... there's Shattered Memories soundtrack on torrent (2009-11-25), promo release again?
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falsewander wrote:
Maybe I should play the SH games to appreciate this more but it's beautiful music either way. Akira is a genius.
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Seikimatsu wrote:
Goonz is right. One of Akiras finest songs, actually are: Witchcraft and Cold Blood.
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hugmeimcrazy wrote:
Akira is a genious. His music makes me think of H.P. Lovecraft's work
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Goonz wrote:
Silent Hill Homecoming has some great music on it. Witchcraft, Cold Blood, The Terminal Show, Attitude #70, Regards, Total Invasion, The Real Love, Living in Fear...lol I could name the whole disc, Akira rocks ! Besided there never was an "official" release of the Homecoming soundtrack. All we have is the game rip and the 21 track promo.
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AnnaDraconida wrote:
Severely addictive-I can listen to his work for HOURS.
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Proton-Kandi wrote:
I love silent hill 4 are awesome all that sick ideas and his music is very original n.n you're not here is the best =3
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jukejezebel wrote:
I see i'm the only person that doesn't like very much the songs? (with vocal) for me, they sound the same oO
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ARGBDude wrote:
Cold Blood from Homecoming is pretty good, and the vocal tracks too. The rest of the tracks... well.. don't leave much impression :-)
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