Taihei Sato

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Taihei Sato
Date of birth: 1969-03-02[1] (age 55)
Employment history:
Data East (1993[2] – )
Sammy (1996[2] – )
Divisions:
Divisions:
Unique Note
Paon
Role(s): Musician

Taihei Sato (佐藤 大平), also known as Taihei Satoh, Taihey Sato and tai-hey, is a Japanese video game music composer and sound designer. He has previously worked for (in order) Data East, Sammy, Sega, SuperSweep and Unique Note.

He entered Sega in 1996 as a design engineer following his university studies in Acoustic Engineering and surround sound technology. His success in simulating the sounds of a car engine allowed him to be the sound designer for Le Mans 24. He has also provided 5.1ch sound system support for some of the games he was involved with.

He has recently joined Paon, a reemerge of Data East's staff following the latter's bankruptcy.

Production history

Games

Music

Song credits

Main article: Taihei Sato/Song credits.

Suiko Enbu

~Arrange Version~

  • Tenshoryuha — Performance (with Hiroaki Yoshida, Seiichi Hamada, Tatsuya Kiuchi, Takuto Kitsuta, Shogo Sakai, and Jia Peng-Fang)

Le Mans 24

  • Festivity — Music & Arrangement
  • Operate Me — Music & Arrangement
  • Gate of Trials — Music & Arrangement
  • Sliding Way — Music & Arrangement
  • Endure More — Music & Arrangement
  • Midnight Affair — Music & Arrangement
  • Know What — Music & Arrangement
  • Self-Determination — Music & Arrangement
  • Which Is? — Music & Arrangement
  • Super Charger — Music & Arrangement
  • You Are — Music & Arrangement
  • A.T.C (domination) — Music & Arrangement
  • A.T.C — Music & Arrangement
  • Shake It Down — Music & Arrangement

Derby Owners Club

  • Deep Breath — Music & Arrangement
  • Birth of a Fine Horse — Music & Arrangement
  • Morning on the Pasture — Music & Arrangement
  • Hindlegs in Good Shape — Music & Arrangement
  • Step Up — Music & Arrangement
  • Home Stretch — Music & Arrangement
  • Sega Race Fanfare — Music & Arrangement
  • Easy Victory — Music & Arrangement
  • Rising Horse — Music & Arrangement
  • Sad Evening — Music & Arrangement
  • Time of the Decisive Battle — Music & Arrangement
  • Derby24 — Music & Arrangement
  • Sega GI Fanfare — Music & Arrangement
  • Hegemony — Music & Arrangement
  • Wagon Tracks — Music & Arrangement

Crackin' DJ

  • cool hand — Music & Arrangement
  • snob — Music & Arrangement
  • cool hand (scratching) — Music & Arrangement
  • snob (scratching) — Music & Arrangement

Crackin' DJ Part 2

  • Jumble — Music & Arrangement
  • Save your Breath — Music & Arrangement

Derby Owners Club II

  • lovelove — Music & Arrangement
  • Birthday — Music & Arrangement
  • Select — Music & Arrangement
  • communication — Music & Arrangement
  • communication (ver.2) — Music & Arrangement

Sega Rally Championship (GBA Version)

  • Go Go! Sega Rally — Arrangement
  • Judgment — Arrangement
  • Conditioned Reflex — Arrangement
  • Getting Muddy — Arrangement
  • Euro Fight!! — Arrangement
  • MNF? — Arrangement
  • Ignition — Arrangement
  • Soul on Desert — Arrangement
  • End Road of Monaco — Arrangement
  • Fanfare — Arrangement
  • Around a Letter — Arrangement
  • Route 246 — Arrangement
  • Desert Replay — Arrangement
  • Game Over YEAH! — Arrangement

The Key of Avalon

  • Straight Fair Wind — Music & Arrangement
  • Legend of the Ritual — Music & Arrangement
  • Fate — Music & Arrangement
  • Quartet — Music & Arrangement
  • True Courage — Music & Arrangement
  • Flight — Music & Arrangement
  • Endless Cycle of Reincarnation — Music & Arrangement
  • Brilliancy — Music & Arrangement
  • Flashing Shadow — Music & Arrangement
  • Critical — Music & Arrangement
  • The Dragon and Tiger Joined — Music & Arrangement
  • Tense Battle — Music & Arrangement
  • Impregnable — Music & Arrangement
  • Mysterious Bubble Shadows — Music & Arrangement
  • Jingle ~ Holder Turn ~ Chaser Turn ~ Victory ~ Holder — Music & Arrangement (with Chiho Kobayashi)

Phantasy Star Universe

  • New Year — Composition & Programming
  • Lunga — Composition & Programming
  • Marriage — Composition & Programming
  • Floader — Composition & Programming
  • Cherry Blossom — Composition & Programming
  • Contamination - Ice - — Composition & Programming

Sonic the Hedgehog

  • [Event] Can It Be True? — Music & Arrangement
  • [Event] Out of Control — Music & Arrangement
  • [Event] I Will Change My Destiny — Music & Arrangement
  • [Event] The Accident 10 Years Ago — Music & Arrangement
  • [Event] The Sealing Revealed — Music & Arrangement
  • [Event] Determination... Omega's Confession — Music & Arrangement
  • Extras — Arrangement
  • [Event] Is It Right...? — Music & Arrangement
  • [Event] Invasion... Encounter with Amy and Elise — Music & Arrangement
  • [Event] Determination... Return to the Future — Music & Arrangement
  • [Event] You Are My Companion — Music & Arrangement
  • [Event] Elise's Tears — Music & Arrangement

Phantasy Star Universe: Ambition of the Illuminus

  • Eathan — Composition & Programming
  • Raia — Composition & Programming
  • Casino Volyale — Composition & Programming

Burnout Running

  • Burnout Running — Music

Valkyria Chronicles

  • Defeat — Piano Performance
  • Succeeded Wish — Lyrics [NOTE: Also known as "A Love Passed On"]
  • Those Who Succeeded — Piano Performance
  • Succeeded Wish ~Piano Solo~ — Piano Performance [NOTE: Also known as "A Love Passed On ~Piano Solo~"]

Crackin' DJ Complete Album

  • cool hand (Prototype) — Music & Arrangement
  • Save your Breath (Prototype) — Music & Arrangement

Interviews

External links

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 http://backup.segakore.fr/hitmaker/game/SOUND/SITE/member07.html
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 http://www.unique-note.co.jp/composer.html (Wayback Machine: 2012-03-01 06:30)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 http://backup.segakore.fr/hitmaker/game/SOUND/SITE/colmun_fin.html
  4. ↑ https://dengekionline.com/data/news/2003/10/2/4de4797b84de660ec1f84f185bf76b5d.html
  5. ↑ Phantasy_Star_Universe#Production_credits
  6. ↑ File:SEFS Saturn JP SSEnding.pdf
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