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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.

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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jukejezebel wrote:
3 hours ago

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:
11 hours ago

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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JayInACob wrote:
yesterday evening

does anyone else think the soundtrack to silent hill homecoming was a bit shit. then again, the whole games a bit shit :)

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takusamadotcom wrote:
Friday evening

yep I really like his works!

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jockstewart wrote:
Friday evening

A musical God of our generation.

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diorlandmine wrote:
Friday morning

mmmm akira will always b gud<3

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purpledevil wrote:
Thursday morning

can't wait for the Shattered Memories soundtrack! hope it'll be somewhat alike SH1 with majority of noise/industrial tracks... that's really scary

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Mekakakaka wrote:
Wednesday morning

The SH3 soundtrack is one of the best things ever. Goddamn, it's awesome.

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Eikuy wrote:
Tuesday evening

Silent Hill 3 soundtrack is THE sh*t. Best soundtrack i know, its alot of the time my most listened album on my iPod because I often listen to it when I go to bed.

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Cenis wrote:
Tuesday evening

(L)

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Deput666 wrote:
Tuesday morning

Sometimes he's really close to dubstep in his music - see Silent Hill Origins Soundtrack.

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matheusetc wrote:
last week

♥

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LiesAndPlastic wrote:
last week

IT'S GENIOUS EVERYBODY, GENIOUS

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iamnotapie wrote:
last week

His range is what gets me, he seems to be able to switch between vaastly different genres without any effort and switch back whenever he chooses. All on one album, there are few artists as emotive as Akira Yamaoka.

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Serfiel wrote:
last week

cool story bro

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jamesusillxd wrote:
last week

This man is a true fucking genious. :D

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dhaosdante wrote:
14 days ago

HELL YEAH

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lax_laxity wrote:
14 days ago

Так вот ты какой, талантливый япошка ^_^

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KiraInLove wrote:
15 days ago

he is a genius[2]

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theleft wrote:
16 days ago

what a bro

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