Tunage

Tunage – A Museum for Gaming’s Awesome Musicians, Well-Known and Obscure

Welcome to Tunage, LVLs.’ home for information and samples for Wildcat’s favorite video game composers!  At Tunage, it doesn’t matter how popular a musician is to gain entry to these hallowed halls – all one needs is a solid body of work that I dig, be it one game or several, and I’ll include their entire discography (would that be proper for video game music? :p ) in their entry.  I may decide that my personal interest in the music may not be all that vital to their acceptance down the road, but for now, that’s what I’d like to set this up as.  Unlike Wikipedia, Tunage will not focus in on the composer’s life style or other activity outside of the medium all that much.  Tunage is a showcase for their gaming music, and will specialize on that aspect of their careers.

I’m excited to be able to give musicians in video gaming a place they can safely call home.  Enjoy Tunage.

- JF

I’d like to give special thanks to all of the people on YouTube who have contributed to Tunage indirectly – I would not be able to properly showcase these composers without you.  Secondly, RawmeatCowboy of GoNintendo deserves additional gratitude for helping me spread the word on many of these articles!

Composers:

Kinuyo Yamashita

Mari Yamaguchi

Koji Kondo

Christophe Heral

Naoki Kodaka

Michiru Yamane

Yutaka Minobe

Norio Hanzawa

Coming in 2012:

Jan-Mar: As Soon As Possible: Ryu Umemoto

Apr-Jun: Yuko Takehara

Jul-Sep: Stephen Rippy

Oct-Dec: Minako Hamano