[News] Hiroyuki Iwatsuki Omega Five interview

Originally Posted by Rotorblade

I read a comment on Soundtrack Central that basically said Omega Five was a disappointment in comparison to his past works... and I really thought it was fairly empty regarding the soundtrack. What does his past work have to do with the quality of the soundtrack itself?

At STC we (mostly me and Daniel K. in the past years really) were talking about Iwatsuki semi-regularly referring to what's known to be by him and readily available. That was nothing official (he afaik never had an official soundtrack before the ones mentioned in the interview) but rather the SNES stuff he was involved in (Daniel K. actually originally suggested doing a Pocky & Rocky SPC set after which we at snesmusic.org tried to get all known Natsume SNES games).

Obviously with most of Iwatsuki's work between SNES and now being unknown and the huge difference between technology, sequencing vs. streaming etc. people expecting a style Iwatsuki did well over a decade ago are bound to be disappointed (Iwatsuki said himself in the interview that he doesn't/"can't" listen to his works prior to PS2 streams simply as he didn't bother to record it).

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Rotorblade

(...) Iwatsuki hasn't had an official soundtrack release, aside from possibly Gundam Wing: Endless Duel (which was a bitch to find, let me assure you). The problem I had with the comment was that it implies that this work is somehow inferior period, as opposed to just a style change. It doesn't outline what was changed, it was made basically assuming that apparently we should know exactly what he's talking about.

This kind of criticism is very common as far as I can see. Especially with composers who worked with multiple systems (FM, SNES, Redbook, newer sequencing, streaming) there's often a vocal "population" preferring the older sound outright.

Also: There was a soundtrack of Gundam Wing: Endless Duel? o.O Catalogue number please?

Kaleb.G/Jeriaska, do you have direct contact to Iwatsuki? I'd be interested in following up my "poor man" comment at STC with sending Iwatsuki an actual CD of his past works. ; )

How ya doing, buddy?

I sent him a pack of MP3 conversions of the available SPC sets he was involved in. This is what he responded:

Originally Posted by iwadon

Hi,
Thank you for your message and tunes.
They are my memories dear to me.
I am glad if you enjoy those tunes.

Nice!

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.