Motoi Sakuraba

Many thanks for the rip! Currently getting...If anyone needs an alternate source, they'll be up in my VGM Central share. Once it finishes.

Sakuraba to me is all about the rockin'. My opinions pretty much run the exact opposite of orion's...His orchestral works pretty much sound the same (pretty much the entire Star Ocean 3 OST Vol. 1 sounds alike to me, I can't tell one Baten Kaitos non-battle theme from another most of the time...Baten Kaitos 2 basically lost me once it got past disc 1...Star Ocean 2 had probably his most noteworthy orchestral-style work to me...I basically have no interest invested in the style and it comes off flat and downright tedious nearly everytime...And in the case of "So Alone, Be Sorrow", downright offensive), while I find his strongest and most memorable melodies within his dungeon/battle themes. Probably why VP is without question my favorite work of his (and a huge reason I enjoyed playing the actual game) Yeah, they do share a similar style, but they're far from indistinguishable...I would say it's no different than the whole of Uematsu's battle themes: Familiar, yet different (when one comes on, I have to think sometimes to identify it with which game it's from...On the same hand, I'll never mistake one of his for another composer's). There's just a lot more of them, comparing Sakuraba's track record. The only bad thing about them is I have problems picking a favorite, which isn't so bad, as I've found very few "bad" ones. Personally, I'm glad to see him making more use of the electric guitar instead of the guitar synth he used for so many years...I would love to see much of VP redone with live guitar.

So yeah...Keep on rockin' Sakuraba!

Jam it back in, in the dark.