Hideki Kanazashi

Hideki Kanazashi

Local	金指英樹 (かなざしひでき)
Born	1963-09-18
Birth Place	Mishima, Shizuoka, Japan
Nationality	Japanese
Aliases	Escaper Kanagushi, Zap Rodeo, Zap Ajisai, Rodeo Kanagushi, Nige no Kanazashi, Nigeta Zap, Jumper Kanagushi, H. Kanazasi, Rodeo
Website	Unknown

Hideki Kanazashi is a Japanese composer and sound designer who worked for HAL Laboratory. It appears he started working for HAL Laboratory around 1984 and left sometime around 1990. He is probably best known for composing the Adventures of Lolo soundtracks, in which he also contributed level designs, as well as the music for Mach Rider. In most of the games he composed, he worked with Hiroaki Suga.

Hideki continues to play piano.

Audio Development

Most of the music he composed was jazz but he also composed rock and Latin tunes as well. Most of the music he composed consisted of notes coming together as chords making the music much more enjoyable to listen to. Hideki's most notable works are probably the Adventures of Lolo games on NES. Hideki's musical style sounds similar to David Wise.

Kanazashi also occasionally wrote in odd time signatures. A couple examples include Air Fortress Interior from Air Fortress and the title music for Famicom Grand Prix: 3D Hot Rally.

FDS/NES

According to Hideki, he started out handing his compositions to the programmers, who would implement his music into the game (most likely by Hiroaki Suga). Later, due to the criticism from other employees about his work, they created Music Maker around the Famicom Disk System era, so he could create music easier. In the program, the user would input music in a custom Music Macro Language. First, the note pitch, followed by the length. The program most likely ran on an MSX computer.

Gameography

Released	Title	Notes
1984-11-02	F1 Race (FC) (Ｆ１レース)
1985-??-??	Eggerland Mystery (MSX) (エッガーランドミステリー)
1985-??-??	Mach Rider (VS)
1985-10-18	Mach Rider (NES) (マッハライダー)
1986-??-??	Eggerland 2 (MSX2) (迷宮神話)
1986-??-??	Gall Force: Defence of Chaos (MSX)	Composer?
1986-04-25	Keisan Game: Sansuu 1 Nen (FC) (けいさんゲームさんすう１年)
1986-04-25	Keisan Game: Sansuu 2 Nen (FC) (けいさんゲームさんすう２年)
1986-04-25	Keisan Game: Sansuu 3 Nen (FC) (けいさんゲームさんすう３年)
1986-10-13	Othello (FDS) (オセロ)
1986-10-30	Keisan Game: Sansuu 4 Nen (FC) (けいさんゲームさんすう４年)
1986-10-30	Keisan Game: Sansuu 5+6 Nen (FC) (けいさんゲームさんすう５＋６年)
1986-11-13	Othello (NES)
1986-12-10	Gall Force: Eternal Story (FDS) (ガルフォースＥＴＥＲＮＡＬＳＴＯＲＹ)
1987-01-89	Eggerland (FDS) (エッガーランド)
1987-08-17	Air Fortress (NES) (エアー・フォートレス空中要塞)
1988-01-07	Satsui no Kaisou: Power Soft Satsujin Jiken (FC) (殺意の改装殺人事件)	Music Data Arrangement
1988-02-01	Fire Bam (FDS) (ファイヤーバム)
1988-02-01	Jumbo Ozaki no Hole in One Professional (FC) (ジャンボ尾崎のホールインワンプロフェッショナル)
1988-04-14	Famicom Grand Prix II: 3D Hot Rally (FDS) (ファミコングランプリⅡ ホットラリー)
1988-08-09	Eggerland: Meikyuu no Fukkatsu (FC) (エッガーランド迷宮の復活)
1988-08-20	Eggerland: Journey to the Creation (FDS) (エッガーランド創造への旅立ち)
1988-12-20	Rollerball (NES) (ローラーボール)
1989-04-??	Adventures of Lolo (NES)
1989-07-28	Shanghai (GB) (上海)
1989-10-18	Revenge of the 'Gator (GB) (ピンボール66匹のワニ大行進)
1989-11-17	Gozonji Yajikita Chin Douchuu (FC) (御存知弥次喜多珍道中)	Music Tone
1990-01-06	Adventures of Lolo 2 (NES) (アドベンチャーズオブロロ)
1990-12-26	Adventures of Lolo 3 (NES) (ＡＤＶＥＮＴＵＲＥＳＯＦＬＯＬＯ Ⅱ)
1990-09-07	Uchuu Keibitai SDF (FC) (宇宙警備隊ＳＤＦ)
1990-??-??	Othello (GB) (オセロ)	Uses music from Othello (NES).
1991-02-23	HAL's Hole in One Golf (SNES) (ジャンボ尾崎のホールインワン)	Jingles used from Jumbo Ozaki no Hole in One Professional (FC).
1994-09-30	Othello World (GB) (オセロワールド)	Uses music from Othello (NES).
Unreleased	Air Fortress (FDS) (空中要塞)

Aliases

Hideki used many aliases in his career. Some of the aliases he used included the words Rodeo, Nigeta, and Zap. Some games also credit his surname as Kanagushi. Nigeta means "to run away", and he has also gone by the alias Escaper Kanagushi. It is unknown what the etymology of this alias is. However, Japanese Twitter user @camelletgo explained its possible origins:

“

Hideki Kanazashi, one of the key figures in the early HALKEN sound, is a man of many mysteries, but in an interview with Jun Ishikawa in Keyboard Magazine, there was an amazing story about him, who seemed to disappear every payday. I wondered if Mr. Kanazashi's alias credits, "NIGETA ZAP" and "JUMPER KANAGUSHI," might be derived from that.

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