Today we are celebrating the birthday of Daisuke Ishiwatari, a man that wears many hats as a composer, video game developer, illustrator, musician, and voice actor. He is known popularly known for the Guilty Gear series, for its character design, storyline, and music, along with voicing Sol Badguy (until 2007). He has collaborated with several musicians, including AISHA, Lapis Lazuli, and Naoki Hashimoto. He also helped compose the music for the Blazblue series, including Blazblue: Calamity Trigger, the first fighting game developed by Arc System Works. He cites several musical favorites, such as Whitesnake, The Beatles, Slayer, and Ringo Sheena. His characters, the locations, and key objects are named after rock and heavy metal musicians.
Simply put, we’ll be playing tracks from the Guilty Gear and Blazblu series, along with covers and remixes to follow.
It’s time to get ready and enter fray of Daisuke Ishiwatari’s music!
Track Listing
All original tracks composed by Daisuke Ishiwatari
Intro: “Prologue (Shouting & Burning)” – [Guilty Gear]
BGM: “Keep Yourself Alive” – [Guilty Gear]
“Write in Pain” – [Guilty Gear XX (X2)]
“Guilty Gear XX – Writhe in Pain (Millia Rage’s Theme)” – covered by Vincent Moretto
“Enough is Enough” – [Guilty Gear Xrd REV 2]
“Guilty Gear Xrd REV2 “Enough is Enough” (Answer’s Theme)” – remixed by gvgkid
“Smell of the Game” – [Guilty Gear -STRIVE-]
“Guilty Gear – Smell of the Game [EPIC METAL COVER” – covered by LittleVMills, featuring RichaadEB
“Rebillion” – [BlazBlue: CentralFiction]
“Rebellion (Ragna Theme Synth Cover)” – covered by Willfox Piano
Outro: “Keep Yourself Alive II (Sol’s Theme)” – composed by Daisuke Ishiwatari, lyrics by Hikari Suzuki, from the album “Guilty Gear XX in L.A. Vocal Edition”
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