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February 18, 1974 – August 16, 2011 was a Japanese video game music composer, born in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture. He is known for composing soundtracks to various visual novel and shoot 'em up since the 1990s, for several companies including FamilySoft, , ELF Corporation, D4 Enterprise, and CAVE. He is considered to be one of the greatest FM-synth chiptune composers, and has often been compared to Yuzo Koshiro.
He never had any formal education in music, but was entirely self-taught, and had often experimented with since he was young. His musical influences included electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra and video game composer Yuzo Koshiro. During high school, Umemoto began doing freelance projects for personal computer game soundtracks. His first assignment was for the company FamilySoft, after sending them some demo works.
During the 1990s, he composed the soundtracks for various personal computer games, establishing himself as a commercial musician. From 1992 to 1993, he worked for FamilySoft, producing soundtracks for mostly anime-based games, including several based on the mecha anime franchises Gundam and Macross. He also arranged some of the tracks in the 1995 "PMD" arrangement CD for Princess Maker 2.
He then worked as a freelance musician on various projects for other companies such as and ELF Corporation, often working closely with scenario writer Hiroyuki Kanno, with whom he became friends. His first major projects were for several C's Ware , beginning with the 1994 title Desire, an eroge science fiction adventure game. He had to meet tight deadlines for C's Ware, often under two months while working on simultaneous projects. He also composed the soundtracks for other C's Ware visual novels such as (1994) and EVE Burst Error (1995). He then worked with ELF, for which he composed the soundtrack for their most famous visual novel, (1996).
In later years, he expanded his range of activity as an arranger, conductor and sound director. From 2007 to 2008, he began working for D4 Enterprise, establishing the ARTDINK sound department with former employees of ThinkRidge. He began gaining more international attention for his work with the company CAVE in the last few years of his life, producing soundtracks for bullet hell shooters such as (2010), Akai Katana (2010), NIN2-JUMP (2011), and Mushihimesama (2011). On August 16, 2011, he died of chronic bronchitis at the age of 37. Twitter / @ryu_umemoto: 訃報。梅本竜氏が、8/17に他界しました。これまでた ...: お伝えしなければならない事があります。: 開発日誌 (INSTANT BRAIN公式ブログ)
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Soundtracks
Soundtracks composed by Umemoto include the following:
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