Re: PHI from SERGE remixed battle and world music for KINGDOM HEARTS 3

I lost my breath when I read this. There is a high chance for all future media, such as trailers, to actually feature music from KH3.

Since they couldn’t say what world, it makes me believe it’s for one unannounced. I’m always leaning towards Frozen, but I’m excited regardless.

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IS IT THAT TIME YET.
That tiiiime where we get to hear new stuff and tear up and get all excited AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH.
No idea which one it could be. Maybe Frozen.

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From what I can gather from their YouTube videos (wasn't familiar with them at all), it sounds like something you'd hear in San Fransokyo, maybe?

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Interesting! I thought Miss Shimomura was in charge of all music. Does anyone have some links to some of their other work? For research purposes :)

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It’s probably like FFXV. Ms. Shimomura was the main composer, but other composers worked on the game. PHI might also have been working under Ms. Shimomura’s guidance and supervision.

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Starting in Birth by Sleep, other composers (Tsuyoshi Sekito and Takeharu Ishimoto) have begun contributing to the KH soundtrack. I'm not able to list all the tracks specifically, but off the top of my head, Sekito did a lot of the Dream Eater themes and Ishimoto was responsible for the Vanitas themes.

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Makes sense. Thanks guys! The KH3 soundtrack must be a serious undertaking! It makes me giddy just thinking about all the new music we will be getting.

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If the embargo is lifted does that mean a trailer in imminent? Specifically one featuring their music in the trailer

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It doesn’t seem their NDA is over, but rather they’re just teasing that they worked on *Something*. It’s no indication that whatever they worked on will be used soon, or at all in promotional material. I would expect for there to be a trailer at D23.

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IM ABOUT TO FREAK OUT IM SOOOOO READY!!! Hopefully this means the next trailer will have music from the game!

Re: PHI from SERGE remixed battle and world music for KINGDOM HEARTS 3

Oh man.

Going by their music i i feel it could be either for San Franksokyo or Wreck It Ralph (Hero's Duty) or something.

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Anyone else feel a bit... skeptical?

I mean, this guy's YouTube channel has a sum total of 303 views. Even I have more than that.
33 subscribers.
23 likes on Facebook.
11 followers on SoundCloud.

This one tweet is several magnitudes more popular than anything previous.

And this article is the fourth result when Googling him...

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I mean obviously, but now you have me completely second-guessing myself so the article has now been updated to reflect the situation.

Weirder things have happened. I don't want to believe he's trolling because his tweet was pretty straightforward and it took a week before anyone found it, but I agree it's a bit of a reach to think that someone at SE happened across him on Soundcloud or Youtube and thought he'd be a good contributor.

It’d be nice for some fresh remixes to be used in the series. Give the third game a unique sounding flavour.

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as in a trailer before the D23 event in japan? if they pull something like that, i'll be really surprised.

This may not be completely on topic, but when I listened to one of their songs on YouTube, one of the recommended videos was the extended version of The Da Vinci Code. :T

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I'm skeptical but we don't also know what the underground DJ/mix scene is like in Japan. It is very possible this is somebody who knew somebody and got hired by SE i.e. Takeharu Ishimoto knows plenty of people who aren't well known but have a strong presence in the underground music scene in Japan, and is always pulling for new talent from that circle. Heck, most of the artists on the TWEWY OST weren't even all that well known until that game came out.

I was like "who from what now??" But I see, a youtube artist? Yeah I dunno, we shall see. There is no other information related to this so I guess we just gotta remain skeptical lol.

Like Spockanort mentioned, Square have used relatively unknown people for games before, and didn’t TWEWY even have a contest to find a singer?

I can definitely see Phi being called upon by Square Enix. He has nothing to gain except a few hits from the KH community, and even then why target KH? I’m hopeful, because 2018 is the year of me being hopeful about things. If I’m hopeful in something and its wrong, then it is a guiding lesson but for now I believe in Phi. Just like I believed in those leaks when they first came out. Just like I believe KH3 won’t be pushed back to 2019.

Phi, don’t let me down.

Eh... I don't buy this at all. Musicians have a non-disclosure agreement before signing up to projects like this. You didn't see Tee Lopes teasing the fact that he did the soundtrack for Sonic Mania before Sonic Mania's composer was unveiled.

Honestly, this is a guy who's bandwagoning on the D23 hype. His YouTube portfolio is too minimal for a grand project like this.

Um what why would he care about the d23 bandwagon in February also if any world he talking about it would be big hero 6

Because these fakers jump up at the opportunity to say that they're involved in something right before news about said thing is about to be unveiled. And he's also a Japanese musician, so yeah, he's taking advantage of guillable people who are waiting for that D23 Kingdom Hearts III news.

Again, non-disclosure agreement. That's not exclusive to the voice actors, that's an agreement signed by everybody working on Kingdom Hearts III.

doesnt mean it not true i mean a musican like have him might a differnt agreement then like the va or like yoko i mean maybe yoko gave him a agreement of some kind sine he will be working with her

we wont know for sure until frebuary which is cuple weeks away

That's not how a non-disclosure agreement works. Any announcements for Kingdom Hearts III should be made by Disney and/or Square Enix regardless of whatever facet of the game is unveiled. Let's say for arguments sake, he's right. What benefit does he have for breaking his non-disclosure agreement? Disney and Square Enix would punish him for leaking information that goes against their current marketing schedule.

That's really not how this kind of stuff works. Recommendations also exist, like Chaser and Spock said, and let's not forget that we, here, from our point of view, can only see this much of their work online. So many artists just don't post all their works online, while working on various projects irl, collaborating face-to-face or whatnot - what I want to say is that, if an artist (in any field) has only 3 works posted somewhere online, that doesn't exclude the possibility of them having worked on 10 different official projects in reality, just like it doesn't lessen their talent nor accurately describe their reputation irl.

Well, this aside, I kinda hope it's a world that belongs to our less popular or less expected guesses. A surprise would be great, I'd enjoy that info now more than the usual Frozen or Big Hero 6 guess, though I have nothing agaisnt them anyway

Okay, prove me wrong. Why should we believe him when he says that he's involved in Kingdom Hearts III? Most people who even talk about Kingdom Hearts involvement before said involvement is unveiled have their tweets deleted in request of Disney or Square Enix.

I was not "proving anything", that wasn't my intention. I wanted to say that we have no solid arguments for admitting nor denying anything as of now. That means there's no use in pointing the finger to the "attention whoring of artists before d23" idea, I find it degrading towards the artist right from the start, when we don't even know if it's officially official.
Especially in the case it's official, claiming it as some deplorable attention-seeking is low and salty. Collaborators have the right to share as much as they can within the secrecy agreements.

I really don’t get why he would be bandwagoning on the hype. Nobody even knew his tweet existed until now. He didn’t go out of his way to share this info with a bunch of people so people would notice him. It was just a tweet out into the wild that people stumbled upon. These tend to be more often than not legitimate news.

Ages ago Jason Dohring did a random interview with some random podcasters and mentioned he was Terra in BBS and it took people months for somebody to share that info with us (and they weren’t even a KH fan) back when nobody knew who Terra’s VA was. He most certainly was under an NDA but still said it in an interview months before a trailer with his voice even came out.

Again, while I am a skeptic as well, the tweet states that an embargo has ended for them so they were able to say they are involved (but are still under an NDA as to what that is). This isn’t all that uncommon to happen if their involvement is minimal.

And like I mentioned earlier, SE has employed unknown artists before in the past. Frequently, in fact. The bulk of TWEWY’s OST is made up of smaller musical talent. Emi Evans wasn’t all that known until NieR. Ishimoto ran a contest for artists on the Solo/Live Remix OSTs and for his SE-approved band the Death March. SE did a contest for the theme of the DS remake of FFIV as well...

Lest we forget Susan Calloway becoming the Distant Worlds/XIV music singing queen.

You are right to be hesitant about believing this. We definitely are, but you haven’t the slightest idea on what kind of agreements anybody might have signed, what kind of talent SE would go looking for, and you certainly cannot say they are trolling if they didn’t even really attempt to get that info out there outside of a small tweet to their very small number of followers. It’s like a needle in a haystack.

As of right now there no proof he lying or telling the truth but with leaks coming out and being true and this tweet I think he telling the truth

plus if agreement to say he working on the game along he doesn't say the world name that still in an agreement

now that you mention it I think they were recommended by isimoto since there music is similar to his music and maybe they did wanted ishimoto help with the music but find out he leaving square so he recommended them

This guy showed up in my Youtube recommendations yesterday!

I'm gonna stay skeptical since it's not confirmed, but it doesn't feel fake to me. Going from his style I can't picture it being for a world like Arendelle though it'd definitely work for places like San Fransokyo or Shibuya. It being remixes could also mean it's for a previous world.

yeah i gussing there going for ishimoto to work on this music but when we they find he was resining from square it was lte so isimoto problly recomend them

Ishimoto leaving SE is about the same as Shimomura leaving SE. He is working as a freelancer now which doesn’t mean he can’t work with them. 100% expect Ishimoto on KH3.

yeah i guess there maybe this group s good freinds with ishimoto who he trust that can help him with the music

also i did find a post on instergram saying he work on tracks on 2.8 even though he was not creidted
https://www.instagram.com/p/BNeWRAQBS0g/

(credit goes to https://twitter.com/Aquaberry_KH for finding it)

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That's actually the exact place I was thinking about. Their music would definitely fit that atmosphere the most. It's bizarre that they happen to have the exact amount of subscribers I do, 51, but meh.

As for it being legit? It's possible I guess. But 51 subs isn't exactly popular... so idk how they got noticed...

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He plays at nightclubs in Japan. He could have been spotted by someone working at SE or applied / auditioned for the position. He allegedly worked with PUNPEE in 2016 for the Simple and Clean -Ray of Hope- MIX so they might have enjoyed working with him and his ideas, or PUNPEE is back and brought PHI with him

He's the third one from the left in that bottom row.

chaser i never though of that maybe utada decided to bring back punpee back to remixs for her new kh3 song like she did for 2.8

Maybe she did.

Also why did you copy and paste my post and try to pass it as your own on KH13?

whoops sorry well you ha d intreing point about that i maybe i wwnt to far and copy and post your by mistake wont do it again chaser

Or properly source people when you share stuff like you did with the finding by Aquaberry.

yeah i try to do that again that my fault wont don't it again i eddited the post to my words

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This clarifies a lot for me, seems more legit now

i just hope he doesnt get in trouble for tweet though?

He stated it was an embargo lift. He was probably allowed to mention his involvement, so it is highly unlikely he got in trouble.

Maybe it is for TWEWY lol. Very odd for them to bring in a second Key Art.

welll cgaser he never said what world so maybe this isnt annoced yet so it could thwey you do make a good point

Lol the new medal was for TWEWY Final Remix

https://www.khinsider.com/news/The-World-Ends-With-You-Final-Remix-announced-for-the-Nintendo-Switch-11022

we can hope though spickanort maybe nomura will bring the the the world en you gang into kh3

Yeah the fact that he is an actual Japanese musician and does music at nightclubs really validates this whole thing imo. It just seems like he doesn't have a huge social media following is all. Guess we'll find out soon enough but in the meantime I think i'll check out some of this guys work.

I'm still holding on for a Shibuya district in San Fransokyo.


I've met a lot of local musicians through uni and whatnot, and they get as many gigs as they can but some of their social media followings are still low. You can get places but still not get the following, unfortunately.

chaseer i agree wyou the world ends you music and stuff sure the music fit big hero 6 but more i think about it his type music goes well what ishimoto does plus he never said what it was for so let guess that world hasnt been annonced yet or it has and they wait for the trailer come out dont forgot we had sora with animal on his lap and one of the painting that was blur look like neku

Shibuya has a higher chance of being added than Treasure Planet,Alantis a Jungle Book.

Treasure Planet and Jungle Book were both previously planned for Dream Drop Distance and Kingdom Hearts 1 / Birth by Sleep respectively, so they both have a higher chance than Shibuya.

In other news, PHI's social media pages (Twitter and Instagram) have been deleted. Either Square got up him and he freaked out or he was lying, freaked out, and left.

Hm...I kinda wish there was a way to know which it is lol. Cuz yeah it really could be either.

Square wouldn't shut down his whole account(s).

Mmm, this is why I think he might have been lying, which is a shame. I gave him the benefit of the doubt and trusted his word, since there was enough for it to add up. But I guess we should all forget about him and this until some actual confirmation comes that proves he was actually telling the truth.

You never know. Maybe they C&D’d him. If he wasn’t lying and broke an NDA, then Legal could definitely have his social media accounts shut down. Or perhaps he volunteered to take them down after receiving a lot of unwanted attention.

Ugh, I’m hoping it wasn’t him lying, though.

Personally, I genuinely hope he is lying. His music's trash.

Nobody respects KH NDA's, it almost makes me feel bad for SE/Disney/whoever is getting scooped.

But not that much though, I hope people keep leaking stuff at serious risk to their own careers.

Why at "serious risk to their careers" or at all for that matter? Just curious, not really trying to instigate or anything.

Breaking an NDA, any NDA, can resort in a lawsuit. People can sometimes never work in that industry again, or have trouble getting a stable career in the industry.