Chip Tanaka

Metroid and Dr. Mario composer Chip Tanaka has played his part in shaping the sound of electronic music worldwide. Those songs from Super Mario that used to get stuck on an endless loop in your head? Hirokazu “Hip” Tanaka composed those, along with designing Game Boy audio hardware, sound effects for Tetris and Donkey Kong, as well as writing songs for the first Pokémon. A DJ (as Chip Tanaka) and huge reggae fan, he even based some of these video game jams on iconic Jamaican riddims.