Akira Yamaoka (山岡晃 Yamaoka Akira, born February 6, 1968) has composed music for dozens of Konami video games. He is most well known for his work for the Silent Hill series of video games, for which he composed all the music and sound effects in all four games. In the fourth Silent Hill game (which is available on Playstation 2, Xbox and Personal_computer) he played a more important role as the game's producer. Music from Silent Hill will be performed in 2005 at the third Symphonic Game Music Concert in Leipzig, Germany.
Born in Tokyo, Japan, Yamaoka attended Left Tokyo Art College.
Studio Gear: Roland JD-800, Roland JP-8080, Roland TB-303, Roland MKS-80, Roland DJ-70, Roland VP-9000, Sequential Circuit Prophet-5, Oberheim OB-MX, Memory Moog, Ensoniq VFX, Akai VX-600, Korg Prophecy.
Sound Tools: Emagic Logic Audio, Emagic EXS24, Emagic amt8, Phrazer Infinity.
Yamaoka's Song Catalogue
| Game Title
| Console
| Songs
| Comments
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| Sparkster
| Super Famicom
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| Perfect Eleven
| Super Famicom
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| Speed King
| PS
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| Vandal Hearts
| PS
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| Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (悪魔城ドラキュラX 月下の夜想曲)
| PS
| ドラキュラ城
悲境の貴公子
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| Contra: Shattered Soldier (真魂斗羅)
| PS2
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| With Sota Fujimori
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| Gradius III&IV
| PS2
| DEMO MOVIE1
DEMO MOVIE2
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| Winning Eleven
| PS
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| Silent Hill
| PS
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| With Riku Muranaka
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| Silent Hill 2
| PS2/Xbox
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| Silent Hill 3
| PS2
| Composed all music
| Game includes limited edition soundtrack CD.
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| Silent Hill 4
| PS2
| Composed all music
| Pre-orders received soundtrack CD.
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| Beatmania IIDX 4th Style
| Arcade/PS2
| 250bpm
Diamond Jealousy
Love Will...
Minimilian
| Minimilian was composed under the pseudonym of "Detroian"
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| Beatmania IIDX 5th Style 5th Style
| Arcade/PS2
| In My Eyes
Rislim
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| Beatmania IIDX 7th Style
| Arcade/PS2
| Bring Her Down
I feel...
Love Me Do
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| Beatmania IIDX 8th Style
| Arcade
| Bit Mania
Dancer
| Dancer composed under the pseudonym of DE-VOL
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| Beatmania IIDX 9th Style
| Arcade
| 昭和企業戦士荒山課長
ライオン好き
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| Beatmania IIDX 10th Style
| Arcade
| Space Fight
システムロマンス
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| Beatmania IIDX 11th Style RED
| Arcade
| Awakening
Injection of Love
| Injection of Love was composed under the pseudonym of Akira Shintani, and featured sana shintani as the vocalist.
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| Dance Dance Revolution 2nd ReMix
| Arcade/PS
| Love This Feelin' (Remix)
| Love This Feelin' was remixed by U1-Asami under the pseudonym of Chang-Ma
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| Dance Dance Revolution DDRMAX2
| Arcade/PS2
| I feel...
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| Dance Dance Revolution Extreme (US)
| PS2
| Your Rain (Rage Mix)
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Dance Dance Revolution Ultramix
Beatmania IIDX 5th Style
| Xbox
PS2/Arcade
| In My Eyes
| Downloadable by purchasing Ultramix Song Pack #1.
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| GuitarFreaks 2ndMIX
| Arcade/PS
| Love This Feelin'
POWER DUNKER 2000X
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