Sunday, January 21, 2018

Behind the Drums: Hirokazu Koshio @ COSIO/E.G.G.


Born June 2nd, 1980, Hirokazu Koshio (小塩広和) joined the Kyushu Institute of Design in 2003, from where he graduated 2 years later. Right after obtaining his Acoustic degree, Koshio was hired as a member of ZUNTATA, the in-house sound musician unit of Taito for which company he has composed music for a number of its games, including mobile titles (Space Invaders Infinity Gene and Arkanoid vs Space Invaders among others) as well as Taito's music game series: Music Gun! Gun! and Groove Coaster. Together with ZUNTATA member Shohei Tsuchiya (土屋昇平), Hirokazu Koshio single-handedly created most of the original mobile Groove Coaster game's playable songs, signing his works under a number of different aliases while also being the sound director of the whole series for a number of years.

Hirokazu Koshio graduated from ZUNTATA on November 2015 in favor of a freelance musician career, with the creation of the COSIOTONE sound label; despite his departure from ZUNTATA, he's still contributing to different music games to this day, with both original tracks and custom theme arrangements from different videogames.

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Namco Original
  • OK I'm blue rat
Game Music
  • Extreme MGG★★★
  • Got more raves?
  • FUJIN Rumble
  • SHOGYO MUJO
Music Gun!Gun!
  • Theme of Musicgungun
  • M.G.G. Second Theme of Musicgungun
  • Densha De Densha De Go!go!go!revolution
  • Invader Girl!
  • Happy Smiling♪
  • Bubble Bobble Medley
  • Miracle Force
  • Planet Connection
  • Touhou Onganmu (東方音銃夢)
  • Touhou Sangakusai (東方散楽祭)
Groove Coaster
  • The Beginning
  • Music Plot Type Three
  • Happy Smiling♪ -More Happy Mix-
  • Invade You
  • Neptune Diving
  • I CANNOT APE
  • Fun-House
  • Cardiac Rhythm
  • Protocol Signal Generation
  • Thrash Beat
  • Space Invaders Infinity Gene Medley
  • Jingle Bells -Trance Mix-
  • Shadow
  • Eclipse Landscape
  • The Star-Sprangled Banner
  • Music Plot Type Zero
  • Invader Disco
  • Symphony No. 9 -Groove Mix-
  • Walking Through The Towers -Remix-
  • Groove Prayer
  • COZMIC OPERATION
  • Period of Revolution
  • BURN ALT AIR
  • BEFORE TEN ORB
  • Departure -Remix-
  • ARKANOID vs SPACE INVADERS
  • Black MInD
  • COSMIC AIR WAY -Trans Mountain Express MIX-
  • Abyssal Withdrawal
  • Got more raves?
  • Got a pain cover
  • Got noir forever.
  • Got hive of Ra
  • Got recover run
  • Kaminohi (カミノヒ)
  • Touhou Fushicho (東方不死鳥)
  • Touhou Chishinritsu (東方地神律)
  • Touhou Shigetake (東方双地舞)
jubeat
  • Girl on Data
beatmania IIDX
  • Rise Circuit