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Hideki Naganuma (長沼 英樹, Naganuma Hideki^?) is a composer who has done work for the Sonic the Hedgehog series.

History[]

Naganuma joined Sega in 1998. Examples of games he composed music for include Jet Set Radio Future, Ollie King, and Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz. In 2008 he left Sega, but has since contributed some music to a few more Sega games, such as Super Monkey Ball 3D.

He has also written music under the psuedonym "skankfunk". Works under this alias include supervision and two songs for the anime Air Gear as well as work for the game Super Monkey Ball 3D.

While Naganuma worked on the soundtrack for Sonic Rush, he did not work on the soundtrack for its sequel, Sonic Rush Adventure, which was instead done by Tomoya Ohtani. Naganuma has stated that he wanted to make music for the game but his boss did not let him do it because he was in the Yakuza team at the time.^[1]

Credits[]

• Sonic Rush - Sound Creator
  • "A New Day (Title Edit)" - Music Composed & Arranged by
  • "What U Need is Remix" - Music Composed & Arranged by
  • "Right There, Right On" - Music Composed & Arranged by
  • "Back 2 Back" - Music Composed & Arranged by
  • "Ethno Circus" - Music Composed & Arranged by
  • "Ska Cha Cha" - Music Composed & Arranged by
  • "Jeh Jeh Rocket" - Music Composed & Arranged by
  • "Get Edgy" - Music Composed & Arranged by
  • "What U Need" - Music Composed & Arranged by
  • "Metal Scratchin'" - Music Composed & Arranged by
  • "Metal Scratchin' (Part 2)" - Music Composed & Arranged by
  • "Vela Nova" - Music Composed & Arranged by
  • "Vela Nova (Part 2)" - Music Composed & Arranged by
  • "Bomber Barbara" - Music Composed & Arranged by
  • "Bomber Barbara (Part 2)" - Music Composed & Arranged by
  • "Groove Rush #4" - Music Composed & Arranged by
  • "Raisin' Me Up (Prologue)" - Music Composed & Arranged by
  • "Medley Rush #1" - Music Composed & Arranged by
  • "Groove Rush #2" - Music Composed & Arranged by
  • "Groove Rush #7" - Music Composed & Arranged by
  • "Groove Rush #1" - Music Composed & Arranged by
  • "Groove Rush #3" - Music Composed & Arranged by
  • "A New Day" - Music Composed & Arranged by
  • "A New Day (Intermission)" - Music Composed & Arranged by
  • "Wrapped In Black" - Music Composed & Arranged by
  • "Wrapped In Black (Part 2)" - Music Composed & Arranged by
  • "Groove Rush #5" - Music Composed & Arranged by
  • "Raisin' Me Up" - Music Composed & Arranged by
  • "Medley Rush #2" - Music Composed & Arranged by
• Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games - Sound Special Thanks
• Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (Nintendo DS) - Sound Special Thanks

Trivia[]

• Naganuma had stated previously that his favorite Sonic character was Sonic the Hedgehog,^[2] but has since changed his answer to Blaze the Cat.^[3]

References[]

External links[]

• Hideki Naganuma at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Hideki Naganuma on Sega Retro
• Hideki Naganuma on SoundCloud
• Hideki Naganuma on Game-ost.com
• Hideki Naganuma on Twitter