Wave Master
From Sega Retro
Wave Master Inc. (株式会社ウェーブマスター) is a Japanese music business owned by the Sega Sammy Group. Originally a successor to Sega Digital Media, Wave Master's original role was to produce music for Sega's video games, however is has since branched out into other forms of entertainment such as film and television, and acts as a record label, managing Japanese musicians and artists.
Wave Master was also briefly a video game developer in its own right, releasing Switch and New Roommania: Porori Seishun for the PlayStation 2 (and the PS2 port of Roommania #203, originally developed as Sega Digital Media). The company became solely concerned with music in 2003, absorbing Sammy's music business, Underground Liberation Force, in 2005.
As well as having its own musicians and recording engineers, Wave Master also has a recording studio which has been hired by third-party organisations.
For a while Wave Master were maintaining a handful of sub-labels, the two prominent ones being Wave Master Artists (for regular musical acts signed up with the record label) and Wave Master Entertainment, used for video game, film and animation soundtracks. Both were established in late 2003[1].
Contents
Members
Former members
- Ai Muroi
- Ayako Okahara
- Fumie Kumatani
- Hideaki Kobayashi
- Hideki Abe
- Hideki Naganuma
- Hirofumi Kakigawa
- Hirofumi Murasaki
- Hirokazu Akashi
- Junko Shiratsu
- Jun Senoue
- Keiichi Sugiyama
- Kenichi Tokoi
- Kenji Tsujisaka
- Kenta Ohno
- Koji Matsuo
- Mariko Nanba
- Masaru Setsumaru
- Naofumi Hataya
- Sachiko Ochi
- Sawako Sogabe
- Seirou Okamoto
- Shigeharu Isoda
- Takahiro Ishikawa
- Takashi Endo
- Tatsuya Kouzaki
- Tatsuyuki Maeda
- Teruhiko Nakagawa
- Tomoko Sasaki
- Tomonori Sawada
- Tomoya Ohtani
- Yamato Izumino
- Yasuyuki Tsukamoto
- Yoshitada Miya
- Yukifumi Makino (Head of Team)
- Yukihara Nagashima
- Yutaka Minobe
Softography (Music and sound design)
Dreamcast
- Daytona USA 2001 (2000)
- Guru Guru Onsen 2 (2001)
- Guru Guru Onsen 3 (2002)
- Hundred Swords (2001)
- De La Jet Set Radio (2000)
- Magic: The Gathering (2001)
- Napple Tale: Arsia in Daydream (2000)
- Phantasy Star Online Ver.2 (2001)
- Phantasy Star Online (2000)
- Pro Yakyuu Team o Tsukurou! & Asobou! (2001)
- Rez (2001)
- Sakura Taisen 2 (2001)
- Sakura Taisen 3 (2001)
- Sakura Taisen 4 (2002)
- Samba de Amigo Ver.2000 (2000)
- Skies of Arcadia (2000)
- Sonic Adventure 2 (2001)
- Space Channel 5: Part 2 (2002)
Game Boy Advance
- Baseball Advance (2002)
- J.League Pro Soccer Club o Tsukurou! Advance (2001)
- Puyo Pop (2001)
- Sonic Advance 2 (2002)
- Sonic Advance 3 (2004)
- Sonic Advance (2001)
- Sonic Battle (2003)
PlayStation 2
- Astro Boy (2004)
- Initial D: Special Stage (2001)
- New Roommania: Porori Seishun (2003)
- Nightshade (2003)
- Pro Yakyuu Team o Tsukurou! 2003 (2003)
- Pro Yakyuu Team o Tsukurou! 2 (2003)
- Puyo Pop Fever (2004)
- Rez (2001)
- Roommania #203 (2002)
- Shinobi (2002)
- Saka Tsuku 2002: J.League Pro Soccer Club o Tsukurou! (2002)
- Sonic Heroes (2003)
- Space Channel 5: Part 2 (2002)
- Switch (2002)
Xbox
- Gunvalkyrie (2002)
- Jet Set Radio Future (2002)
- Panzer Dragoon Orta (2002)
- Phantasy Star Online Episode 1 & 2 Plus (2003)
- Phantasy Star Online Episode 1 & 2 (2002)
- Puyo Pop Fever (2004)
- Sonic Heroes (2003)
GameCube
- Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg (2003)
- Phantasy Star Online Episode 1 & 2 Plus (2003)
- Phantasy Star Online Episode 1 & 2 (2002)
- Phantasy Star Online Episode III: C.A.R.D. Revolution (2003)
- Puyo Pop Fever (2004)
- Sonic Adventure 2: Battle (2002)
- Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut (2002)
- Sonic Heroes (2003)
- Sonic Mega Collection (2002)
NAOMI
- Dragon Treasure (2003)
- Samba de Amigo Ver.2000 (2000)
NAOMI 2
- Initial D: Arcade Stage (2001)
- Initial D: Arcade Stage Ver. 2 (2002)
- Initial D: Version 3 (2003)
Softography
Non-Sega games with sound design by Wave Master
These games do not have pages on Sega Retro.
Game Boy Advance
- Rika-chan No Oshare Nikki (2004)
PlayStation 2
- Super Galdelic Hour (2001; Enix)
- Ghost Vibration (2002; Artoon/Eidos/Infogrames)
- Onimusha Blade Warriors (2003; Capcom)
Xbox
- Blinx: The Time Sweeper (2002; Artoon/Microsoft)
- Blinx 2: Masters of Time and Space (2004; Artoon/Microsoft)
Discography
Wave Master Artists
Wave Master Entertainment
Sound! Shock Series
Magazine articles
- Main article: Wave Master/Magazine articles.
Gallery
External links
- [1]
- Wave-Master.com (Record label)
References
- ↑ http://sega.jp/corp/release/2003/0807/ (Wayback Machine: 2007-11-18 20:41)
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