Yasonori News

 Yasunori Mitsuda is slowly but surely making Procyon Studios and Sleigh Bells highly competitive businesses. Although none of the records they've released have reached "gold" or "platinum" (I don't think that Japan actually has those awards), every single disc has been a Killer. I just got Moonlit Shadow, a collaboration between Mitsuda Yasunori-sama and Higashino Miki-san, and it contains some of the most brilliant tracks I've ever heard in the genre of jazz. Some of the tracks have Pitched Poetry (AKA rap) in them, and it's just unbelievable what you're hearing. It shows how much Mitsuda's changed since 2197.

 Sleigh Bells offers a pretty large collection of music, even if only in account of their small size (they probibly don't even have ten employees). Currently offered is:

• An Cinnuint
• Sailing to the World
• Xenosaga Episode I
• 箱の庭 (Hako no Niwa, which means backyard... something)
• Moonlit Shadow
• Kirite (with book by Kato Masato-Sama)

 Procyon Studios is going even better then Sleigh Bells. First off, Procyon is the company that produced all of those albums. Second off, Procyon is being Contracted for major Moolah by game companies — only two of the Sleigh Bells releases aren't soundtracks (Moonlit Shadow and Kirite — both of which tend to be better then the rest). Procyon is also being benefited by the fact that Suzuki Hidenori-sama, one of the world's best sound programmers and loyal Procyon employee, has released under Procyon's sails Digital Sound Elements, A tool that develops code for music (Currently working with the DS, Wii, And PS2). I have no doubt in my mind that Digital Sound Elements will be a good professional sound development SDK, and will be popular among other sound dev. studios.


UPDATE:
Dude! I just found out that Procyon worked on Katamari Damashi! I always wondered why it was that I loved that soundtrack so much...!

Written next to their section on "Published works" was 効果音 ： 伊藤美紀、金子昌晃