W/o Duran Duran high probably no brilliant GoT score?

[Tatsujin]

once again I was lurking through the internet on searching some informations about nick woods genius Gate of Thunder score, when I encountered with something interessing.

it's commonly known as we can take it from GoTs title screen, for the brilliant Score a team called SYN Sound Design is responsible:



so while looking for some further informations, see what i've discovered:

http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:ppMHEAwOdWgJ:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Le_Bon+nick+wood+syn&cd=17&hl=de&ct=clnk&gl=ch

Along with friend Nick Wood and wife Yasmin, he set up SYN Entertainment (Simon Yasmin Nick) in Tokyo, Japan. Having first conceived the idea in 1988, Le Bon is currently described as SYN's "Founder and Chairman", while Wood is "Founder, President and Creative Director".

out of this fact, I may savely say that without a Simon Le Bon, SYN probably would never have been founded and a Nick Wood would never have came over to japan to write the brilliant scores for a game called Gate of Thunder, and therefore one of the best game music ever written in history of video games (and probably even beyond of it ) would not exist now.

Thanks so much Duran Duran

here the present HP of SYN:
http://www.synentertainment.com/

and here a recent inteview with nick wood:
http://www.itvjapan.com/media_ad.asp?Id=8

[elnino]

Besides Gate of Thunder, Nick Wood is also responsible for the terrific BGM of Dynastic Hero!

1992年には、PCエンジンのSUPER CD-ROM²ゲームとして発売された「ゲート・オブ・サンダー」の楽曲を担当。1994年にも、同ハードで発売の「超英雄伝説 ダイナスティックヒーロー」の楽曲を担当した。

http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8B%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A6%E3%83%83%E3%83%89

[Tatsujin]

nice find as well

i appreciate the BGM from Dynasitc hero very much! also one of my fav. lol, i've even used it in my 2004 pce off-meeting video as BGM

[shubibiman]

OMG! Very, very, very nice find!

[ceti alpha]

*does his air guitar dance*

[guyjin]

hungry like the pcengine!

[esteban]

Tats, that's awesome

I already love Duran Duran, so this new piece of info just makes things better.

Of course, I love the Duran Duran from the 1980's...

[Joe Redifer]

I wonder what Duran Duran thinks of the PCE.  They should dedicate an album to it.  Maybe Gate of Thunder 2 with soundtrack provided by Duran Duran with special guest composer Nick Wood on the triangle.

The problem with the Wiki article is that is says SYN was formed in 1998, well after Gate of Thunder's 1992 copyright.

[elnino]

The problem with the Wiki article is that is says SYN was formed in 1998, well after Gate of Thunder's 1992 copyright.

Agreed, the Wiki article is very misleading and I was confused by the timeline as well. At first I thought Tats made a bad hoax :-"
But actually, they only mention the date the Entertainment division of SYN was set up, which was indeed in 1998, but not a single word about when the main company was formed, which had to be around 1991.

[Necromancer]

The problem with the Wiki article is that is says SYN was formed in 1998, well after Gate of Thunder's 1992 copyright.

But..... but.... Wikipedia is never wrong! 

But actually, they only mention the date the Entertainment division of SYN was set up, which was indeed in 1998, but not a single word about when the main company was formed, which had to be around 1991.

You are correct, good sir.  As culled from their website:

The idea of syn was originally conceived by Nick Wood and Simon Le Bon in London back in 1988.  It wasn't until Nick met Naoko Hyuga in Tokyo three years later when the concept became a reality and syn was born as one of the first international music production companies in Japan.

There's even a mention of Hudson in the profile interview of Naoko Hyuga:

What sort of work were you looking for?

Commercials mainly.  That was how we built the company.  Later on I started to find other possibilities like games for Hudson, an animated film for Sony and a movie for Toei.  But we started with commercials.

[Joe Redifer]

I wonder if their commercials featured rockin' soundtracks like GoT?  Now Tats needs to track down Youtube versions of each of these commercials.

[esteban]

I wonder if their commercials featured rockin' soundtracks like GoT?  Now Tats needs to track down Youtube versions of each of these commercials.

ABSOLUTELY. To all your points.

You heard us, Tats. You have some researching to do.

[PunkicCyborg]

Duran Duran rocks and so does GoT, coincidence? I THINK NOT!


sorry for wiseing this fwom its gwave

[PunkicCyborg]

heres a newer link to replace the broken one from the original post, thanks Tats
http://www.itv-asia.com/interview/nick-wood

[Tatsujin]

Here's also the current homepage of SYN: http://syn.co.jp