Soichi Terada - Sounds From The Far East [2015 / MP3 / 320] [House]

Soichi Terada (寺田 創一 Terada Soichi, born March 19, 1965, in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese electronic composer, best known for his work in the Ape Escape video game series.

Terada majored in computer science and electric organ at the University of Electro-Communications. After graduating in 1989, he formed the record label Far East Recording. This led him to begin remixing for artists such as Nami Shimada and Akiko Kanazawa. His first major solo project was composing the score to the Japanese drama Psychometrer Eiji.

He formed the musical group Omodaka with Kanazawa. Omodaka has released several albums, including Fortunate 1mark, Yosawya san, Kyoteizinc, Cantata no.147, Favorite Games, Plum Song, Sanosa and Bridge Song.

Terada has also contributed his work to various video games. His first video game soundtrack was the score to "Wangan Trial." A year later in 1999, he began working on the soundtrack for the Ape Escape video games, eventually completing seven soundtracks for the series.