Shinji Hosoe


Shinji Hosoe, also known as MEGATEN and SamplingMasters MEGA, is a Japanese video game composer and musician most famous for scoring Ridge Racer, Street Fighter EX and many Namco arcade games between 1987 and 1996. He also created the in-game music for '. He was assisted by Yuki Kajiura on the project, though he did not return as a composer for '. He also runs the music production and publishing company SuperSweep, alongside long time collaborator Ayako Saso.
Outside of the video game industry he has a few side projects, most notably Sampling Masters and Oriental Magnetic Yellow, the latter of which is a parody band of Yellow Magic Orchestra he formed with fellow Namco composers Nobuyoshi Sano, Takayuki Aihara and Hiroto Sasaki.

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