Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka, (田中宏和 たなか・ひろかず Tanaka Hirokazu) is a Japanese compos… Read Full Bio ↴Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka, (田中宏和 たなか・ひろかず Tanaka Hirokazu) is a Japanese composer and musician best known for his scores for various video games produced by Nintendo.
Hirokazu Tanaka got his start in music at the age of five when his parents enrolled him at the privately run Yamaha Music School in Japan. He studied piano from age nine to age 11, when his musical training ended. His mother played recordings of classical music and film soundtracks regularly, which gave Tanaka an appreciation for those forms of music.
Tanaka became interested in rock music when the TV show The Monkees aired in Japan when he was nine, which prompted him to start a band with some friends. From nine to 30, Tanaka played in and out of groups on various instruments, including guitar, keyboard, and drums, and in various styles from rock to jazz and fusion.
Tanaka entered college as an electronic engineering major, but he saw little success since he was more interested in electronic applications for music than what his professors considered more useful pursuits. In 1980, Tanaka saw a newspaper advertisement for a sound engineer position at the Nintendo video game company, a position he secured for himself. Meanwhile, his current band had made the finals in a music competition, a major breakthrough in their quest to get signed with a major label. Nevertheless, Tanaka chose to work for Nintendo, and he left the band.
Tanaka's first projects with the company were on Nintendo's arcade machines. Music was extremely primitive on these machines, so Tanaka primarily worked on sound effects. His job required him to personally program the sound in binary code as well as to design and install the actual sound equipment on the arcade machines.
Nintendo began development of its Famicom home video game console in 1984 (known as the Nintendo Entertainment System in North America and Europe), and Tanaka worked on early titles including Duck Hunt and Kid Icarus. The new system had three tone generators and one pseudorandom noise generator, with which to produce melody, harmony, percussion, and sound effects (which would usually interrupt a note). Though a vast improvement over the simplistic sound of the arcade machines, the Nintendo hardware still left Tanaka and the other composers severely limited in the complexity of the music they could write. Even though sound tools had been written for the Famicom, Tanaka continued to write his music alongside his custom playback libraries written in assembly language, a fact he credits with helping to set his work apart from that of his colleagues. By 1986, Tanaka was writing over a third of the music for the Famicom's games.
This increase in sound technology, coupled with the composing talents of Tanaka and his coworkers such as Koji Kondo helped raise the popularity of game music in Japan. The increased attention spurred good-spirited rivalries between many game composers, a development that bothered Tanaka, since it forced composers to write in a way that he felt was contrary to the atmosphere of the games themselves.
It was this dislike that inspired him to compose the subdued themes of Metroid. In his words, he tried "to create the sound without any distinctions between music and sound effects." He composed the music so as to deny the player a simple melody to hum along with; only after completing the game is any "catchy" music played. At the time, the Metroid soundtrack was criticized as being too "heavy", but today, the score is widely regarded as Tanaka's masterpiece.
Tanaka also worked in a programming capacity for Nintendo. He had always wanted to get more into project development, and it was this that inspired him to design the Game Boy Camera and the Game Boy Printer.
Tanaka began work on the score for the Pokémon TV series in 1997, where he has composed nearly all the songs for the Japanese version of the series - however, Shinji Miyazaki composes the incidental music (along with Junichi Masuda, Go Ichinose and Morikazu Aoki, composers of the music in the games), and with a couple of very rare exceptions Tanaka's music does not appear on any Western translations of the show.
He says he never took the job too seriously and that the unprecedented popularity of the franchise took him completely by surprise. Because the series was not directly produced by Nintendo, the company told Tanaka that he could not continue to work on it. This prompted Tanaka to quit Nintendo in 1998.
He went to work for Creatures, Inc., a game developer and producer of Pokémon cards. When the president of the company left in 2000, Tanaka took the position, which he holds to this day.
Tanaka's music has been greatly inspired by the rock performers of his youth, including The Monkees, The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, and Burt Bacharach. He was also greatly inspired by reggae in the 1980s. He says he also takes inspiration from the visual arts, especially portraiture and photography. He eventually became known as the mentor of Yuka Tsujiyoko.
Video game soundtracks (incomplete)
* Space Firebird (1980) (sound effects only)
* Donkey Kong (1980) (sound effects only)
* Pac-Man Fever (1982) (album; sound effects only)
* Urban Champion (1984)
* Balloon Fight (1984)
* Wild Gunman (1984)
* Duck Hunt (1985)
* Gyromite (1985)
* Stack Up (1985)
* Wrecking Crew (1985)
* Kid Icarus (Paltena no Kagami in Japan) (1986)
* Metroid (1986)
* Super Mario Land (1989)
* Mother (with Akio Ohmori, Ritsuo Kamimura, and Keiichi Suzuki) (1989)
* Balloon Kid (Balloon Fight GB in Japan) (1990)
* Dr. Mario (1990)
* Hello Kitty World (1992; Famicom port of Balloon Kid)
* EarthBound (Mother 2, 1994)
Hirokazu Tanaka got his start in music at the age of five when his parents enrolled him at the privately run Yamaha Music School in Japan. He studied piano from age nine to age 11, when his musical training ended. His mother played recordings of classical music and film soundtracks regularly, which gave Tanaka an appreciation for those forms of music.
Tanaka became interested in rock music when the TV show The Monkees aired in Japan when he was nine, which prompted him to start a band with some friends. From nine to 30, Tanaka played in and out of groups on various instruments, including guitar, keyboard, and drums, and in various styles from rock to jazz and fusion.
Tanaka entered college as an electronic engineering major, but he saw little success since he was more interested in electronic applications for music than what his professors considered more useful pursuits. In 1980, Tanaka saw a newspaper advertisement for a sound engineer position at the Nintendo video game company, a position he secured for himself. Meanwhile, his current band had made the finals in a music competition, a major breakthrough in their quest to get signed with a major label. Nevertheless, Tanaka chose to work for Nintendo, and he left the band.
Tanaka's first projects with the company were on Nintendo's arcade machines. Music was extremely primitive on these machines, so Tanaka primarily worked on sound effects. His job required him to personally program the sound in binary code as well as to design and install the actual sound equipment on the arcade machines.
Nintendo began development of its Famicom home video game console in 1984 (known as the Nintendo Entertainment System in North America and Europe), and Tanaka worked on early titles including Duck Hunt and Kid Icarus. The new system had three tone generators and one pseudorandom noise generator, with which to produce melody, harmony, percussion, and sound effects (which would usually interrupt a note). Though a vast improvement over the simplistic sound of the arcade machines, the Nintendo hardware still left Tanaka and the other composers severely limited in the complexity of the music they could write. Even though sound tools had been written for the Famicom, Tanaka continued to write his music alongside his custom playback libraries written in assembly language, a fact he credits with helping to set his work apart from that of his colleagues. By 1986, Tanaka was writing over a third of the music for the Famicom's games.
This increase in sound technology, coupled with the composing talents of Tanaka and his coworkers such as Koji Kondo helped raise the popularity of game music in Japan. The increased attention spurred good-spirited rivalries between many game composers, a development that bothered Tanaka, since it forced composers to write in a way that he felt was contrary to the atmosphere of the games themselves.
It was this dislike that inspired him to compose the subdued themes of Metroid. In his words, he tried "to create the sound without any distinctions between music and sound effects." He composed the music so as to deny the player a simple melody to hum along with; only after completing the game is any "catchy" music played. At the time, the Metroid soundtrack was criticized as being too "heavy", but today, the score is widely regarded as Tanaka's masterpiece.
Tanaka also worked in a programming capacity for Nintendo. He had always wanted to get more into project development, and it was this that inspired him to design the Game Boy Camera and the Game Boy Printer.
Tanaka began work on the score for the Pokémon TV series in 1997, where he has composed nearly all the songs for the Japanese version of the series - however, Shinji Miyazaki composes the incidental music (along with Junichi Masuda, Go Ichinose and Morikazu Aoki, composers of the music in the games), and with a couple of very rare exceptions Tanaka's music does not appear on any Western translations of the show.
He says he never took the job too seriously and that the unprecedented popularity of the franchise took him completely by surprise. Because the series was not directly produced by Nintendo, the company told Tanaka that he could not continue to work on it. This prompted Tanaka to quit Nintendo in 1998.
He went to work for Creatures, Inc., a game developer and producer of Pokémon cards. When the president of the company left in 2000, Tanaka took the position, which he holds to this day.
Tanaka's music has been greatly inspired by the rock performers of his youth, including The Monkees, The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, and Burt Bacharach. He was also greatly inspired by reggae in the 1980s. He says he also takes inspiration from the visual arts, especially portraiture and photography. He eventually became known as the mentor of Yuka Tsujiyoko.
Video game soundtracks (incomplete)
* Space Firebird (1980) (sound effects only)
* Donkey Kong (1980) (sound effects only)
* Pac-Man Fever (1982) (album; sound effects only)
* Urban Champion (1984)
* Balloon Fight (1984)
* Wild Gunman (1984)
* Duck Hunt (1985)
* Gyromite (1985)
* Stack Up (1985)
* Wrecking Crew (1985)
* Kid Icarus (Paltena no Kagami in Japan) (1986)
* Metroid (1986)
* Super Mario Land (1989)
* Mother (with Akio Ohmori, Ritsuo Kamimura, and Keiichi Suzuki) (1989)
* Balloon Kid (Balloon Fight GB in Japan) (1990)
* Dr. Mario (1990)
* Hello Kitty World (1992; Famicom port of Balloon Kid)
* EarthBound (Mother 2, 1994)
CHILL
田中宏和 Lyrics
We have lyrics for 'CHILL' by these artists:
you 另一個城市 詞:斯琴格日樂 曲:驥愚 這次 我選擇了 另一個城市 那裡沒有你的美好 卻有不那麼擁擠的人潮 和足夠陌生的…
1.9.9.9 Yeah I'm in this bitch like a puppy Feeling myself give a…
A.J. Blanc No, I'm not saying sorry For standing up for me And I'm…
acid android all around the useless walls rows of warped perverted faces…
Afront Nazwij to jak chcesz luz chillout chuj tam z nazwą Bo…
AL SHAMI شوق المطر للأرض مشتاق لأشوفك كوني الثقة بالنفس لكسبتها من دو…
Alaya Alrigh (Alaya) this is Alaya Everybody put your hands up (oh…
Alex & Vladi Her dark hair And bright eyes It has you in a trance You're…
Alex Wiley Don't believe in the system of time Always ahead, I'm never…
Anna David Uhh uhh uhh uhh uhh uhh Uhh uhh uhh uhh uhh…
Anna Sofia Sitting in bed as the day goes on Ten past two,…
Anthony Amorim Do you think that we could get away? Maybe we should…
Ari Nao Chacun ses goûts comme chacun son succès Je sais plus vraime…
Arquero Veo a Dios reflejado en la tapa del water Tuvo vomitando…
Ashtin Teka sandali Dyan ka muna chill lang Wag magmadali Ang buhay…
B-Chanan Trou dans l'instru, au balista T'as trouvé l'intru, t'analys…
BabyTron (Getta Beats) yeah, okay, really know them Really know some …
Bakar Tell me what's the deal? what's the deal? What's the deal…
Bankk Ca$h ยังไงไม่รู้เราชิลก่อน นิ่งนอนใจ ใครยังไงไม่รู้ไม่สนใจ ช่างเข…
Benny & Dj Gutta Butta Hey chill, hey chill, hey chill, hey chill, hey chill,…
Blenda It's a good day to look down from the top…
Brainpower (versie 1 Brainpower) Ik sta bekend om mijn raps yo doe…
Brunoix Com essa bitch que quer pegar…
Busta Rhymes Feat. Reek Da Villian & J-Doe CHORUS (JON YOUNG): So tired, so sick Of yo shit Its ova Eve…
Busta Rhymes feat. Reek da Villian & J‐Doe I tried to tell a nigga chill Call him David Put the…
Busta Rhymes ft Reek Da Villain J Doe CHORUS (JON YOUNG): So tired, so sick Of yo shit Its ova Eve…
Busta Rhymes Ft. Reek Da Villain & J Doe I tried to tell a nigga chill Call him David Put the…
Busta Rhymes ft. Reek Da Villian & J Doe CHORUS (JON YOUNG): So tired, so sick Of yo shit Its ova Eve…
C and N BEATS Sit chill for me, niño Sit chill for me, niño Sit chill,…
C-Funk Netflix and booze, sex in the room, smoking and do…
C.R.A.C. Knuckles Sit chill for me, niño Sit chill for me, niño Sit chill,…
Caroline and Danny Sometimes at night While you're fast asleep I lie here alone…
Chief Keef I get a thousand mothafuckas give me 300 That's 300 thousand…
Chill and Mellowish Eh, Chill Chicos Ya no estamos tan chill, ahora estamo' acti…
Chill-o-Matic Hi, uh are you guys uh, are you chill if…
Ciara Rae Lights out But I'm on cnother night cnother wand Damn right,…
Crush I know I know where we go (yeah) 파란 하늘 예쁜…
D-Lusion Got no time for fake love I’m off it Haters all…
D.C. Beat Productions Hold up, cah man was moving all mad he was…
D.M.N Ella baila twerk, yo con mi lengua break Lo hace súper…
DJ D&K I know I know where we go (yeah) 파란 하늘 예쁜…
dj noiz Noiz, Noiz, Noiz I'm caught up sitting at the bar, hav…
Dots & Dashes Oh your feeling big and bad Yeah I see Talking loud huffing…
Dr. Luigi I just wanna Cool out on the couch with my shades…
DWN2EARTH Ooh, you so DWN2EARTH I had to change how I live Now…
Ekipa Dzisiaj tylko chill nie chcę mi się nic Mam ochotę bawić…
EPMD You gots to chill Relax your mind, let your conscience be…
Es & SpeZ No chill I aint got no time to kill No chill No chill I…
ETC. โว้โว โอ๊ะโอ อยู่ดีดีก็รักกันเลยแบบจานด่วน ใครเป็นใครไม่สำคั…
F.F.B. My life's a movie baby So groovy baby Fly mackin', try stac…
g-beanz Por la street ando high Ando con todos mis boys Suenan tiros…
Gifts Let you borrow some shit from my man Come down on…
GONE.Fludd — Срань небесная, кто-нибудь Может сказать, сколько сейчас …
Hero Tunguia [Hook] Permanenti ni diri nga chill, chill Kabalo namo unsa …
Hypes Señal Colombia and chill, un ******** y a dormir, un…
Inkonnu Khouya la melliti Men denya chi nhar ycheddek Ibliss Men yed…
J-King Yo, chill, you gotta chill, chill, just chill, you gotta…
J.M.A. Elle m'appelle le soir pour un Netflix Elle ne parle même…
J.R. Writer When I was young I seen the world revolves around…
JEONG-UK Danny Riggs on the track NEO Hannan on the beats Driving aro…
JHarby Solo quiero estar Chill andando a mil No me fijo en…
JNR Nie było łatwo ciągle wierzę że Nie bez powodu to zostawiam…
JOHN.k I know I know where we go (yeah) 파란 하늘 예쁜…
Jonathan Ashenafi Every time we alone together I get lost in the emotions,…
Jongmen Dobranoc we dwoje tak rzadko zdarza się A jednak w głowie…
K.I.A. Project I know I know where we go (yeah) 파란 하늘 예쁜…
kiro 透明な箱の中を見たんだ 何もないのに気温室温がやっぱりおかしい 何か 僕にはとてもわからない 次元の魔物が住んでいる?…
Ko-c Sit chill for me, niño Sit chill for me, niño Sit chill,…
Kuma the Third I be walking on the road look down, look back I…
Kwesi Arthur Aaaye, Summer, Summerday and we're in the studio Everybody f…
La Zowi Cuando nadie estaba yo en la calle he meao' La merla…
Lega-C Sit chill for me, niño Sit chill for me, niño Sit chill,…
Lo-Down I fell, like soldiers on the front line. Under your spell,…
LO-FI CHILL Whoa, whoa, whoa whoa, whoa, whoa I can’t chill Focused on m…
Loretta Mars Hook) Come chill, chill With me, me Come chill, chill For re…
Luciano & Nikky Santoro Tam eklig Jeden Abend sitze ich am Tisch Und überleg mir…
M. Hartmann I didn't to come to chill Let me turn around eat…
max-e-lectric Chillll I just want your body up up in my bed…
mboss Hey, ZG Baby Lei vuole fare sesso Ogni giorno nuova suite L…
Mike Golden & Friends Baby tell me do you think about me? Life without me?…
Mosquit Kiki do you love me Всем bitch Shout out my brother Shout ou…
Moweezy Gold on my wrist All of these bitches Be snitching Suck on m…
Mr. Del I realized one night in L.A. The purpose of my…
Mr. Eous Don't you wanna come to my yard Don't you wanna come…
Mr. Fix-It I realized one night in L.A. The purpose of my…
Musatov Brothers Chill, just chill Chill, just chill…
Nanpa Básico No me importan Luis, ni Carlos, ni Sonia I'm from Colombia,…
Nelly Yo, what you tell a motherfucker with two black eyes? Nothin…
Nelly feat St. Lunatics Yo, what you tell a motherfucker with two black eyes? Nothi…
Nelly featuring St. Lunatics Yo, what you tell a motherfucker with two black eyes? Nothin…
Nelly ft. Lil jon Young Buck Ice Cube Dmx Lunatics Obie Trice Yo, what you tell a motherfucker with two black eyes? Nothi…
Nelly/St. Lunatics Yo, what you tell a motherfucker with two black eyes? Nothin…
Neon BLK Icy rain falls from the sky As the night keeps me…
NIKKY SANTORO Tam eklig Jeden Abend sitze ich am Tisch Und überleg mir…
NJmadstylezz Cra-crave you, you I-I cra-crave you, you I-I cra-crave you,…
NotYourMom Is it time to be careful Is it way that i…
Philippo Michele Wake up my body not is good Stand up thinking about…
Playboi Carti Tell these niggas chill, man Tell these niggas chill (Ayy) T…
Popcaan Killy dem ah pull up one one (yeah move work) Four…
R.U.B. Told her chill Told the lil bitch to chill Fresh prince will…
Rasmus I gotta make a phone call to my best friends…
Rayana Jay We ain't even gotta go out We can watch Paid in…
Rice Lucido Chill ka muna ‘wag kang mainis Kailangan mo lang palampasin …
Rot Ken She said she want Dior I'm up in the store, I…
S.S.G.'Z Aye, D Lil Yuh, yuh, wait, yuh, yuh, yuh Aye, chill Aye, chi…
SARSA And I don't want to lower my eyes when you're…
St. Lunatics Yo, what you tell a motherfucker with two black eyes? Nothin…
Stray Kids 칼로 물 베듯 끊이지가 않는 싸움 처음부터 맞지 않았던 건 아니야 우린…
Switch No.1 Still getting chills from vivid cold dreams Short days longs…
Tetris and Dr. Mario I just wanna Cool out on the couch with my shades…
The Rasmus I gotta make a phone call to my best friends…
Tobilla Late in the night I'm riding I'm cruising Taking my time…
Trey Songz Yeah yeah (yeah) Uh hu (uh hu) Yeah yeah (yeah) Uh hu (uh…
Two-Shekel How bout tonight We don't go nowhere Ima hit the kitchen Whi…
V.A. कभी तो कर मेरे साथ तू भी chill तेरे साथ मेरा…
Vanyork Estoy chill En el infierno estoy bien chill (hey!) They gonn…
Willem Loca (Loca) Loca Dance or die Loca (Loca) She′s playin' dum…
Young Dolph Let the band play Yeah Yeah Uh Love get you killed (ayy) Hu…
Zach Oliver You’re tryna dive right in it Im tryna catch a…
zampa (Featuring Jack The Smoker) Quando e' notte fonda, sopra …
[Free] Trap, trap, trap Отдыхаем до утра просто чиллим так всегда …
¤ The Rasmus I gotta make a phone call to my best friends…
линник За стеклами черных очков Больше не видно Раздутых зрачков За…
阿部芙蓉美 ガクガク震えながら待機する 素敵なあなたの乗り物で ピックアップしてほしい 本音だけ違う場所で育ててる そんな気分にな…
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