{"title":"Akira Yamaoka","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAkira Yamaoka is a Japanese musician and videogame composer. He has scored numerous titles for Konami, including the Bemani series, Contra, Castlevania, and Winning Eleven. However, he is most well known as the producer and composer for the Silent Hill series. His first original album, iFuturelist, was released in January 2006.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYamaoka was born in Niigata, Japan in 1968. Currently, he serves as the sound director at [l282333].\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith his distinctive style and haunting melodies, Akira Yamaoka continues to captivate audiences with his music.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"cyberpunk-edgerunners-original-series-soundtrack","title":"Cyberpunk: Edgerunners (Original Series Soundtrack)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCyberpunk: Edgerunners\u003c\/i\u003e is the hit Netflix anime series based on CD Projekt Red’s video game \u003ci\u003eCyberpunk 2077\u003c\/i\u003e. Winner of “Anime of the Year” at the Crunchyroll Anime Awards, the series features a fantastic and upbeat score by acclaimed composer Akira Yamaoka (Silent Hill franchise) with contributions by Marcin Przybyłowicz. Available for the first time, the soundtrack to \u003ci\u003eCyberpunk: Edgerunners \u003c\/i\u003efeatures the whole score, the opening series theme “this fffire” by Franz Ferdinand and “Let You Down” by Dawid Podsiadło. This fantastic vinyl is presented on audiophile 180-gram transparent marbled purple vinyl and housed in a jacket with original artwork created by Studio Trigger. 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His work for Return to Silent Hill marks his third time writing music for a motion picture set in the Silent Hill universe, but this time he returns as the sole composer.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe score for the motion picture was guided by three guiding principles he’s developed while working on Silent Hill  scores – to “not decide music through emotions,” an aspiration to “blur the boundary between music and environmental sound, between reality and the inner world,” and finally, to “not reject beauty.”  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The horror of Silent hill is not merely unpleasant or violent. There is always something fragile, human, and irretrievably beautiful mixed within it. 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