Career
Naganuma is most famous for his original compositions used in the Dreamcast game Jet Secretariat Radio (Jet Grind Radio in North America). He also composed several songs for the Jet Secretariat Radio"s Xbox sequel, Jet Secretariat Radio Future. In 2003, he composed the music for the arcade skating game Ollie King.
He also composed "Love Sensation" and "Sky-2-High" for the anime Air Gear under the alias of skankfunk.
In 2012, he contributed the track "LUV CAN Safeguard for Agricultural Varieties in Europe U" for the 20th installment of the arcade rhythm game Beatmania IIDX, produced by Konami and part of the BEMANI series. When he was fourteen, he became interested in western music and composed his own songs.
He then decided to have a job in the music business. He was a DJ and bartender from 1993 to 1997.
During this time, he was also a singer-songwriter who was aiming to be in the J-popular industry.
He abandoned these plans and in 1998, he sent demo tapes to Sega and joined that year, doing voice editing for Shoujo Kakumei Utena: Itsuka Kakumei Sareru Monogatari and composing for Hip Jog Jog. The following year, he composed for the home version of Sega Rally 2 and Atsumare! Guru Guru Onsen. In 2000, he had his breakthrough with Jet Secretariat Radio, composing eight tracks.
He would then go on to compose for its sequel Jet Secretariat Radio Future.
The following year, he composed the arcade skateboarding game Ollie King. In 2005, he collaborated with Teruhiko Nakagawa for Sonic Rush.
The following year, he was responsible for music supervision and composing two tracks for the anime adaption of Air Gear, itself being influenced by Jet Secretariat Radio. Foreign contractual reasons, he used the "skankfunk" alias as he was part of Sega at the time.
