Yuzo Koshiro's Influences In Music 

My boy yuzo koshiro is like a selecta or a DJ who made the best samples at the time... Gave the perfect vibe for this game, specially talking about the first S.O.R.

Mr. Koshiro loves EURODANCE

What's awesome is how great these tracks sound on the 1988 Mega Drive's sound hardware! Absolutely amazing.

What made the soundtrack of Street of Rage 1 and 2 great was the use of popular music of the time on the Genesis. His music felt like they could be club music which was awesome.

Samples! Dance, Techno, Electro, House, Hip Hop, yep the 90's.

I don't gaf how he produced. Just God bless this man for making my childhood!

So Yuzo Koshiro must really like Black Box..... Hehehe

: Yuzo Koshiro's work on the Streets of Rage franchise cemented his status as an legend among video game composers. He created a very specific sound and mood unique to an entire genre of games, only two years after the release of the deeply related Belgian techno anthem "Pump Up The Jam".

I wanna know how he came up with the elevator stage (SOR1 Stage 7) I was a young kid when I 1st heard it. I remember thinking it was absolutely crazy. I was so happy when I learned there was a BGM mode in the options that let me listen to it to my heart's content.

good life by inner city is the song that inspired the opening level of SOR2

You can say Yuzo koshiro was influenced by these artists.At that particular time, to hear this type of music on a console was extremely rare.He gifted us with some amazing stuff.However I would love to know his infuences for revenge of shinobi.

Go straight is literally Inner City - Good Life

I always thought the stage 1 music sounded like pump the jam

Great compilation thank you!

"Good artists borrow. Great artists steal."

I can appreciate how some of these aren't even subtle. I've been obsessed with Sonic CD's influences for some time now, and these are very similar to what I come across. I've found one or two of these by pure accident.

Man I hadn't heard some of these tracks in like 20 years! Awesome work!

🙏 🙏 😊 thank you so much for such a great compilation !!

Wow, I really like the game because of the amazing soundtracks Koshiro did, these influences are really the best!

This guys music defined my gaming experience back in the 90's. Great work!

Had childhood flash backs just now! Really miss this game can't wait for streets of rage 4

That's a great job you're doing here, man. Thank you.

The Japanese have this special way of taking pre-exisitng sources of reference and refining them to the point that although there's unmistakable influences, they also become their own unique thing, and in many cases improve upon some of their influences, also adding their own sensibilities.. The culture of pefection runs deep in Japanese historical roots

Love this age of Techno and miss it so much!

Great compilation

Great research anda compilation!

The beach in SOR 2 is C&C music factory just a touch of love 😁

Nicely put together.

I will not be able to un-hear the whistling kettle as I plunge down from the baseball field to the underground wrestling arena. It's magnificent!

I would add in Liza Stansfield "All Around The World" for SOR 2 stage 8

gonna listen to most of these songs now

Most themes are severely changed, some have little to do. Some have just the same resemblance that the music of different artists of those days already had within each other. Besides that reinterpreting, if you will, some things with the Sega sound chip the way he could is a master work.

What's really amazing is how skillfully and authentically he was able to replicate the sound of all these house songs on the Genesis. Any time I argue with SNES fanboy friends about the console war they always bring up "the genesis has such shitty sound blah blah blah" and I always whip out the SOR games as an example that proves that notion to be bullshit. All the shitty music on the Genny was a result of a lack of effort on the part of the sound designers for those games. You get out what you put in when it comes to the YM2612. A buddy of mine who makes dope-ass chiptunes described the differences pretty well: "The Genesis is more of an instrument whereas the SNES was more of a playback device or a sampler."

A lot of people seem to be getting upset about the fact that Koshiro got a lot of inspiration from artists and songs that he heard, and that he just recreated these songs, but modified them so as to not sound the exact same. But you have to think about the time period and put it into proper context. The technology for making music in video games was still quite new and primitive in the late 80's and early 90's. Gamers were mostly used to 'beeps and bloops' from their games. But with the Streets of Rage series, we were given music that actually sounded like songs that sounded like they could be played on the radio. And in a way, Koshiro's sampling, to me, is very reminiscent of hip hop with his use of sampling beats and songs. And as far as copying and sampling goes, this isn't new. How many songs were made with the funky drummer beat alone? Or the beat from Ashely's Roachclip? Or the Hallelujah break? Answer: lots!

Merci Beaucoup, c'est très instructif :)

Thanks for including Enigma. I was worried that you missed that one, that’s the first band I thought of when I popped in Streets of Rage 2 for the first time with my Sega Genesis LOL

Amazing!

Nada se cria, tudo se copia!

Another inspiration that I'm pretty sure about: the bonus stage from Sonic 1 Game Gear / Master System sounds just like "Oh! Tengo Suerte" by Masayoshi Takanaka

Great work! Special thanks for "Bass Value - Do You Wanna Party"! Interesting that there are different versions of the track.

A listing in the description would be greatly appreciated

Thank you!!

Wow that was more than a little inspiration.

Yuzo foi responsável por expor toda uma geração que jogava SOR às músicas que tocavam nos mais exclusivos clubes do mundo! No tempo que era muito dificil ter acesso a tais conteúdos, uma vez que a internet ainda engatinhava. Suas músicas têm presença garantida na história dos games. As músicas de jogos se dividem em antes e depois de Yuzo!

Que buena época nos tocó.

No I know why I loved the music in the game 😁

Thanks a lot.

In my opinion he was influenced in a good on way on this music. He probably wanted to make it sound like popular music to get attention just like the game featured other popular stuff at the time like Skates and Cool cheesy names like Blaze and flashy neon lights. Also he did not copy every song!

Yuzo Koshiro, Naoki Kodaka & Jim Latham made my Childhood

Mind blown.

Só As TOP Da Década 👍😄❤👏

good sounds

Nice...thank u

I would say SoR1 music is greatly influenced by acid house in general. Boss theme resembles Royal House - Can you party

Basically early 90s dance music

Best video on youtube

Wow. He’s got New Jack Swing Swag!

Wangan midnight would not be the same without this legend of a composer 🤘

I always thought that The Last Soul had a bit of Close To You by Maxi Priest to it, in terms of rhythm.

I remember some of these songs back in the early 90's. Even remember the fat Genesis model 1 and model 2 and Bare Knuckle 1 and 2.

you did some serious research

Good 👍

Epic soundtrack 92s

Stage 1's theme from SOR 1

Was Alien Cave theme taken from anywhere?

The track at the beggining of the game is actually "Sadness" by Enigma. Look it up, it's the same song :P

The keyboards in stage 7 sounds similar to the song I'm Too Sexy by Right Said Fred

Does anyone know what the instrument is called that he's using to carry most of his melodies?

Ummm forgot some other important influences. Maxi Priest's 'Close to You' was too influential in tracks like Keep the Groovin' or The Last Soul. Good Times by Inner City was also incredibly influential on Go Straight, too.

Fantasy is Earth,Wind and Fire song.

Wow, very obvious.

This is a genre of music that likes to use the same sounds and samples and beat progression to allow a coherent DJ set at clubs of that time. If you look at other RU-vid videos on the same subject, they cite different songs as possible SoR inspirations, because there isn't one song to point to For instance, the baseball tunnel stage with the whistling song, tons and tons of songs used that sample that SoR emulated on the Genesis sound chips. Which song did that track "steal" from, and what's the difference between Streets of Rage, and Public Enemy and Madonna and Wu Tang Clan and Black Eyed Peas and etc etc etc? People heard the SoR soundtrack back then, and noticed that it sounds like late 80s early 90s club music in general terms On another note, Sephirot Theme Phase 2 from FFXIV only sounds like one popular single, When Worlds Collide by Powerman 5000

I Never knew that he sampled Sadeness!!!

wow

2:21 OMFG.

what's the last track called at 8:35?

Bobby Brown's 'Every Little Step I Take' was used in which Sega game (per Yuzo Koshiro)?

Not sure which came first, so which influenced which but... The Original 'I Love U Baby' the Dancing Divaz remix, check it out and spot the Streets of Rage similarities

Streets of rage is one of my favorite games of the Mega Drive, i knew its music was inspired from various artis, but i wanna know what is that odd version of Strike it Up, so.

6:37 - Huh, I thought Just a Touch of Love was the inspiration for the beach song

Because I was exposed to house music at such an early age, I was able to pick up on a lot of the influences immediately.

Don't forget about the doctor's adamski - musical pharmacy album guys

love this shit

"Percussion" from Streets of Rage 3 definitely takes inspiration from the theme to Peter Gunn (heard in the Blues Brothers). If not, then it's a damn close coincidence!

but he did made it more shivering though

The jungle OST in SOR2 sounds like Acid Hammer by Psykosonik

I always though the lift stage before abided was gang starr-who's gonna take the weight. Guess I was wrong lol

1:53 speed that song to 1.25 and you got a slight cameo of alien power.

where the hell did get the song alien power from?

@Yuzoboy Name theme min 8:35?

Good Vibrations - Mark Wahlberg ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-EDQV2iXgZjQ.html starting at 2:53 you can hear a lot of "fighting in the street".

His earlier music was more rock and metal based, check out anything he did for Falcom.

not even saying that "Black Box - Everybody Everybody" is already ripoff of "Grace Jones - Pull Up To The Bumper".

The Street of Rage II/Bare Knuckle II intro text scroll's music sounds far closer to Enigma's "Principles of Lust"....

A little bit longer is actually the song for player select

This part of Yuzo Koshiro's Jungle Base ( ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-klX4e3WoBbk.html ) sounds a lot like this part of Kraftwerk's I Program my Home Computer ( ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bu55q_3YtOY.html )

4:25 Who did this acid house version of strike it up??? @yuzoboy where did you find it?

He took inspiration from these songs and made them better all with the limitations of the Mega Drive.

name of song @1:05

how about The Revenge of Shinobi? This music in particular: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8qMQs0MV-_k.html And the song from Kraftwerk: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-5DBc5NpyEoo.htmlm18s