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A long-time contributor to the GuitarFreaks & DrumMania series, Yoshihiko Koezuka first joined the series during [[AC DM|drummania]]. Since then he's performed in every game in the franchise, and remains one of the biggest contributors to the series. Prior to working on drummania, he was a member of the KONAMI Kukeiha Club, a name for KONAMI's sound staff in the 1980s and 90s.
A long-time contributor to the GuitarFreaks & DrumMania series, Yoshihiko Koezuka first joined the series during [[AC DM|drummania]]. Since then he's performed in every game in the franchise, and remains one of the biggest contributors to the series. Prior to working on drummania, he was a member of the KONAMI Kukeiha Club, a name for KONAMI's sound staff in the 1980s and 90s.


In contrast to his mentor [[Mutsuhiko Izumi]]'s hard rock sound, Yoshihiko Koezuka's music in BEMANI tends to drift more into a 1980s pop rock / ballad style of music. Beginning with [[Dreams in the night]] in [[AC_GF9DM8|GUITARFREAKS 9thMIX & drummania 8thMIX]], he started singing many of his own songs. He's also one of the few GuitarFreaks & DrumMania artists aside from [[Asaki]] and [[Akhuta]] who writes the lyrics to most of his own BEMANI songs, even for those he himself does not sing. Yoshihiko Koezuka has also provided the bass for dozens of songs in the GuitarFreaks & DrumMania series, both KONAMI originals and licenses alike, and still does to this day. From [[AC GFDM XG2|GuitarFreaksXG2 & DrumManiaXG2 Groove to Live]] through [[AC GD NEX+AGE|GITADORA NEX+AGE]], he was the sound director of the GuitarFreaks & DrumMania series.
In contrast to his mentor [[Mutsuhiko Izumi]]'s hard rock sound, Yoshihiko Koezuka's music in BEMANI tends to drift more into a 1980s pop rock / ballad style of music. Beginning with [[Dreams in the night]] in [[AC_GF9DM8|GUITARFREAKS 9thMIX & drummania 8thMIX]], he started singing many of his own songs. He's also one of the few GuitarFreaks & DrumMania artists aside from [[Asaki]] and [[Akhuta]] who writes the lyrics to most of his own BEMANI songs, even for those he himself does not sing. Yoshihiko Koezuka has also provided the bass for dozens of songs in the GuitarFreaks & DrumMania series, both KONAMI originals and licenses alike, and still does to this day.  
 
From [[AC GFDM XG2|GuitarFreaksXG2 & DrumManiaXG2 Groove to Live]] through [[AC GD NEX+AGE|GITADORA NEX+AGE]], he was the sound director of the GuitarFreaks & DrumMania series. He stepped down from working on the series altogether in early 2023, as noted on his twitter. [https://twitter.com/YoshihikoKoe/status/1768541361832427910]


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