Takahiro Izutani

Takahiro Izutani
泉谷隆洋
Takahiro Izutani 泉谷隆洋
Born	October 7; Yokohama, Japan
Genres	Video game music
Occupation	Composer
Instrument	guitar
Years active	1997- present
Labels	Brave Wave Productions

Takahiro Izutani (イズタニタカヒロ, Izutani Takahiro, born October 7 in Yokohama, Japan) is a video game music composer and guitarist. He is notable for his work in the Metal Gear Solid series.

Profile

In 1997, his avant-garde rock band "Happy Family" released an album, "Toscco" on Cuneiform Records in the U.S. (http://cuneiformrecords.com/bandshtml/happyfamily.html) "Happy Family" collaborated with many underground artists in Japan, New York and Europe. Afterwards Izutani began to work for major Japanese labels. He remixed (occasionally as Brent Mini) and produced the songs of many pop artists (Ayumi Hamasaki is the most famous one). In 2006, he started his personal band "DUGO", and the track "Dublin" was used in an episode in Season 3 of CSI: Miami.^[2] Dugo released the first album "Lingua Franca" from Brave Wave Productions in 2017.

Works

Video games

Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops (2006)
Yakuza 2 (2006)
Wolf of the Battlefield: Commando 3 (2007)
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (2008)
Ninja Blade (2009)
Otomedius G (2009)
Bayonetta (2009)
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker (2010)
The Eye of Judgment: Legends (2010)
Otomedius Excellent (2011)
Ace Combat: Assault Horizon (2011)
Shinobi 3D (2011)
Bayonetta 2 (2014)

Anime

Blassreiter (2008)

References

^ "Artists". Brave Wave. Retrieved 18 January 2018.
^ "Takahiro Izutani". Retrieved 23 December 2015.

External links

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[1] "Artists". Brave Wave. Retrieved 18 January 2018.

[2] "Takahiro Izutani". Retrieved 23 December 2015.

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