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Mike Diver: Let me play you "Go Straight." This is the music from the first level of the game.
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"I know that he's someone who brought textures and sounds of club music, especially 1980s club music, into video games soundtracks." I figure it's best to begin at the beginning. "I know of Koshiro because of his links to club music, though even then my knowledge is quite vague," Angus tells me, as we sneak away to a corner of the VICE office for a listen. But ahead of me sitting him down to listen to the soundtrack to Streets of Rage 2-it's receiving a beautiful double-vinyl release through London's Data Discs in April (it has previously released the soundtracks to Super Hang-On and Shenmue, among others)-he'd only known Kushiro through reputation alone. He's pretty much a walking, talking encyclopedia of electronic beats and breaks.
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But that doesn't mean everyone with dance music in the blood has actually heard his stuff.Īngus Harrison is staff writer at VICE, Thump, and Noisey in the UK. He was responsible for all but three tracks on the game-said trio coming from Motohiro Kawashima-and contemporary artists and producers like Ikonika, Labrinth, Joker, and Just Blaze have cited him as an essential influence on their work. Apparently arranged using an NEC PC-8801 and a personalized twist on BASIC, Music Macro Language, Koshiro's contributions to Streets of Rage 2 were hugely influential.