Shinji Hosoe Musical artist

Shinji Hosoe (細江慎治, Hosoe Shinji, born February 28, 1967), also known as MEGATEN and SamplingMasters MEGA, is a Japanese video game composer and musician most famous for scoring Ridge Racer, Keyboardmania 3rd mix and many early 1990s Namco arcade games. He also created the in-game music for Xenosaga Episode II: Jenseits von Gut und Böse. He was assisted by Yuki Kajiura on the project, though he did not return as a composer for Xenosaga Episode III: Also sprach Zarathustra. He also runs the VGM company Super Sweep Records, along with long-time collaborator Ayako Saso. He was also a member of "Oriental Magnetic Yellow" (OMY), a music band parodying electronic music group Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO), producing parody cover versions of their music.

Personal facts

Alias (AKA)
MEGATEN
SamplingMasters MEGA
Birth dateFebruary 28, 1967
Birth place
Gero Gifu

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Musical artist

Career started1987
BackgroundNon vocal instrumentalist
genre
Trance music
Electro (music)
Techno
Synthpop
Jazz fusion
Rave music
Hardcore (electronic dance music genre)
instrument
Piano
Synthesizer
record label
Troubadour Records
Super Sweep Records

Shinji Hosoe on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://blog.megahan.net
  2. http://sweep.co.jp
  3. http://www.cocoebiz.com/hosoe