Yū Miyake

is a Japanese composer and sound engineer who formerly worked at Bandai Namco Entertainment. His most known work surfaced with Katamari Damacy soundtracks, on which he served as a sound director. Other notable works include various tracks in the Tekken and Ridge Racer series.

Biography As a child, Miyake attended his mother's Electone classes. However, he could not adapt to the pieces he was given to play. He also listened to anime themes, disco and Yellow Magic Orchestra. He later aspired to have a career in illustration, frequently producing drawings. His interest in video game music developed after the release of Haruomi Hosono's Video Game Music, an album featuring music from Namco games he had already enjoyed. He started creating music aged 14, using a PC-88. His first game with the company was the console version of Tekken 3. Although he was originally only assigned to work on music for the ending movies, Nobuyoshi Sano was impressed and allowed him to work on other music for the game. He was given creative freedom while also following the game's sound direction of big beat music, although he felt pressure to catch up with the music that his seniors, Sano and Keiichi Okabe, were creating. and also provided additional sound design and programming for Mondo Grosso's songs "Everything Needs Love" and "Shinin'", both of which appear on his album Next Wave.

Takahashi was so impressed with his work on Texas 2000 that he eventually gave him full responsibility as sound director on the 2004 game Katamari Damacy. He was also given extensive trust and creative freedom, and considers the sound design and music to have been a major aspect of the game's success. In addition to covering a wide range of genres, he aimed to write catchy melodies for the game, feeling that video game music since the second half of the 90s had become unmemorable. He also served as the sound director for future titles in the series, and composed for Takahashi's Noby Noby Boy in 2009. Yano also attended the event.

Outside of his work in the video game industry, he has worked as a part-time lecturer at Tokyo Polytechnic University since 2014. He tries to ensure that his classes are up-to-date and as fun as possible for students.

Katamari Damacy Music with various others; sound director Ridge Racers Music ("Pulse Phaze")

Tekken 5 Music; console version with various others Me & My Katamari Music with various others; sound director

Ridge Racer 7 "Electro Madness"

Beautiful Katamari Music ("Guru Guru Gravity" with Tetsuya Uchida and Yoshihito Yano); guitar ("Sayonara Rolling Star"); sound director

Noby Noby Boy Music; console version with various others 2025 Once Upon a Katamari Music direction with Shogo Nomura; music with various others Other Year Title Notes 2001 NHK NBA program Opening music 2002 "Everything Needs Love" / Mondo Grosso ft. BoA Additional programming 2003 After the Eclipse / Sun Paulo Recording with Mitsuyoshi Kishida and Toshiyuki Mori Montuno No. 5 / Qypthone Remix ("Montuno No. 6"); German version