Thread by @gosokkyu

Game Watch spoke to the people behind Sega's GO SEGA 60th Anniversary Album & Official Bootleg DJ Mix soundtracks: Yoshihiro "Moba" Ito, Hiroshi "Hiro." Kawaguchi, Yosuke Okunari, Kensaku Nishimura, Tomoya Ohtani & Naofumi Hataya game.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/interview…🇯🇵

https://twitter.com/game_watch/status/1374376239410995211

I don't have time to break this down in detail, but some tidbits:

re: GO SEGA, Hiro really wanted to include elemeka music, as well as tunes from the laserdisc game Astron Belt, but the hardware's scarce & LD deteriorates over time so they couldn't guarantee a quality recording

the hardest games to record for GO SEGA were the older arcade games: Head On, Monaco GP, Tranquilizer Gun, etc—there are very few working authentic PCBs still around, they're all super expensive & Sega doesn't have a lot of them internally; Monaco GP's recording came from Mikado

on GO SEGA's liner notes, Okunari went way overboard: he was asked for 400-character comments but pushed the character limit to 4000—as Hiro. says, you can pretty much treat it like a commentary book on Sega music that comes with some bonus CDs

re: licensing, DJ MIX'S Samba de Janeiro 2000 was an ordeal: Ohtani had no contact for the German PRODUCER & had to write via snail mail, which bounced, but eventually Jun Senoue found him online (now working under a new & allegedly famous handle) & Wave Master hit him up on FB

Ohtani's breakdown of how he structured DJ Mix, not just song-to-song but conceptually and practically, is quite interesting but not at all easy to break down... it seems it'll be covered in the liner note, so pick up the CD and read em for yourself if you can, I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

btw there is no significance behind that all-caps PRODUCER I'm just an insanely badass typist