Videogame composers,
- Nobuo Uematsu is just insane. All of his work is gold. Seriously, it's almost depressing to hear what he can achieve, in such different styles. It's like, you could spend an entire life to master a specific style of music, but he could just do better in all of them. It's just... you know, impossible to understand.
- Jeremy Soule, because i just fucking loved his morrowind soundtracks.
- Also, the dude for Metal Gear Solid was impressive.
Classical music :
- BACH is my favourite one. Seriously, for me, he was THE man, if I had to choose only one man in the whole human race as a demigod, it woud be him. When I listen to his work, excepted some boring (for my 21th century normal musical brain) specific things, I often shiver because he is the only one to make me say "THIS is PERFECT" a serious way. I seriously think that if one piece of music should be considered at "perfect", it could only be a Bach one. Even knowing music should be subjective, for me, he is the exception.
- mozart for his requiem which is another piece I would tend to put close to a demigod level.
- Tchaikovsky.
About film scores, I would really like to talk about Basil Poledouris. He just wrote Conan the Barbarian, and, one ot the most epic soundtracks ever, the one for starship troopers.
). I've been on a japanese composer kick recently anyway (though hard to find at times), but Akira Ifukube (starting to become one of my favs), Isotaro Sugata, Hisato Ohzawa, and Toru Takemitsu.
