Akira Yamaoka First US Show Interview: Joe Romersa

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Nov 052012
 

Joe the Drummer. That what Joe Romersa calls himself, but he’s a lot more than that. He’s a composer, songwriter, lyricist, multi instrumentalist, voice actor, dubbing director, sound engineer and a hell of a nice guy! For those of you that missed it, back in September, Akira Yamaoka debuted his Silent Hill band live in the US. Their first live shows in the US were in the Phoenix, Az area at a little convention called SabotenCon. Alongside frequent collaborators, Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, Troy Baker and Yamaoka-san himself, was Joe Romersa hot on the drums. He gave a performance that would make John Bonham happy. We chat with Joe in the smoking section about his career in video game music and how he got to know and work with the legendary Akira Yamaoka on games including Konami’s Silent Hill (series), Shadows of the DAMNED and more.

Listen to the Joe Romersa interview here…

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Joe Romersa’s Video Game Credits (Thanks in part to Anime News Network)

  • ADR dialogue tracking/editing for “Omega Boost“
  • ADR director for “Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War“
  • Digital tracker for “Bushido Blade 2“
  • Digital tracking for “Ghost in the Shell“
  • English ADR director for “Galerians:Ash“
  • English ADR director for “Nano Breaker“
  • English dialogue director for “Firefighter F.D.18“
  • English voice direction for “Brave Fencer Musashi“
  • English voice director for “Breakdown“
  • English voice director for “Front Mission 4“
  • English voice recording engineer for “Brave Fencer Musashi“
  • Lyrics for “Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War“
  • Lyrics for “Karaoke Revolution Volume 3“
  • Lyrics for “Silent Hill 3“
  • Lyrics for “Silent Hill 4: The Room“
  • Lyrics for “Shadows of the DAMNED“
  • Music supervisor for “Silent Hill 3“
  • Music supervisor for “Silent Hill 4: The Room“
  • Vocalist for “Silent Hill 3“
  • Vocalist for “Silent Hill 4: The Room“
  • Voice of Ben in “Brave Fencer Musashi“
  • Voice of Ursus in “Star Ocean: Till the End of Time“

Listen to Hometown from the Silent Hill 3, which he wrote the lyrics and sang on…

Joe Romersa is still churning out music besides Silent Hill’s. Between writing and performing video game music as requested, he also has his own band called Soy Cowboy. It started as a Thai-Western band here, but in it’s current form, it’s a Western-Chinese fusion band and they’ve made a new album called 2012.

Listen to the single Facebook Friend by Soy Cowboy fresh of the new album…

Joe Romersa studio website, Shadow Box Studio
Interview recorded at Saboten Con 2012.

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Gunstar Heroes Remix

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Mar 142012
 
Gunstar Heroes Mercurius FM Remix

As some of you may have already picked up, we’re really big Sega Genesis nerds here… and one of our favorite games on that system is Gunstar Heroes. It’s an action side scroller shoot’em up created by Treasure, Inc… mostly composed of former staff from Konami’s Contra series.

Here’s a brief synopsis of the game courtesy of Moby Games:

 Chaos has broken out on the planet Gunstar-9!!

The mad Colonel Red has discovered four crystals that imprison a deadly being known as GoldenSilver, and plans on unleashing it onto the population of the planet! He must be stopped! Enter...the Gunstar Heroes, Red and Blue!

Unleash some mad blasting action onto the Colonel's army and don't let him bring GoldenSilver to life!! The fate of Gunstar-9 is in your hands!

The game also had a pretty bad ass soundtrack. We were lucky enough to get an email this morning from our friend Mercurius FM with his remix of the music from the first level of Gunstar Heroes!

Check it out here:
Gunstar Heroes – Level 1 (Mercurius FM Remix) by MERCURIUSFM

Feel free to download it and enjoy it. It’s free. Mercurius FM tells us he’s working on some other VGM remixes and will share them with us in the future.

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VGM Special 1: The Tracks

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Mar 082012
 

This is a collection of the songs we played in our first VGM podcast in January. Check out these great video game soundtracks below! We’ve also included the composers’ name below each track so you can find more music made by each composer.

Megaman III – Intro (SongeLeReveur Cover)

Original Composer: Yasuaki Fujita aka Bun Bun
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Baby Soft Murder Hands Podcast Episode 3: VGM Classics

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Jan 122012
 

Welcome to our 3rd podcast… this one is all about the wonderful world of classic video game music! We go over many of our 8 & 16-bit era classics including games like Final Fantasy IV, Chrono Trigger, Doom, Final Fight, Marvel Vs Capcom and more.

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