The following post originally appeared on attractmo.de, on January 23, 2013.
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Sorry if I’m late to the party with the following question, but here goes: did you know that Masaya Matsuura has a SoundCloud?
As if it needs to be pointed out, but the man’s body of work, as it pertains to video games, is a direct result of his extensive background in music. So it’s a great chance to survey Matsuura’s chops in that area, and in a somewhat unfiltered format.
I kind of suck at describing music (as anyone who has ready any of my past Blip Festival reports can attest), so let’s just say it’s all around awesome. But if you especially dig early 80s sounds from Japan, then it’s TOTALLY up your alley.
Also, you can hear bits and pieces of PaRappa the Rapper, Vib Ribbon, even Mojib Ribbon throughout. I’d suggest going all in, via the following, which pieces together almost everything he’s done last year in one super-cut…
[soundcloud url="http://api.soundcloud.com/playlists/2752038" params="" width=" 100%" height="450" iframe="true" /]
