The Haunting Jams of Akira Yamaoka (SoundScape)

Happy Halloween 2020, everyone!

To pay tribute to this lovely haunting week, here’s a mixtape and retrospective of Silent Hill’s music maker & ambience/rock/industrial video game music king Akira Yamaoka.

Timestamps:

0:00 – Intro
1:37 – The 90s (16-bit era with the SNES and Sega Megadrive)
11:52 – Late 90s to 2000s; the Silent Hill stuff (PS1, PS2)
18:23 – 2010 onward, Grasshopper Manufacture music works part 1 (PS3)
26:33 – Grasshopper part 2, freelance work (PS4 onward)
35:43 – Ending