Rasmus Faber
- Music Department
- Composer
The Swedish composer, producer, DJ and pianist Rasmus Faber started his career as a jazz musician and house DJ, touring the world, performing to fans of the melodic side of electronic music over the last two decades. Rasmus's distinctive approach to production led to him releasing his music on many of the world's most successful labels and collaborations with major artists such as Axwell, Deadmau5 and Kaskade.
It was his success as an artist in Japan that enabled the Stockholmer to indulge his interest in manga and animation and make the natural progression into composing and producing music for anime. In 2009, Rasmus wrote and produced his first anime theme song 'Try Unite' (from Rinne No Lagrange) which became one of the biggest hits for the Japanese artist Megumi Nakajima. He also provided songs for the Macross franchise, working with anime heavyweights Yoko Kanno and lyricist Yuho Iwasato and enjoyed continued success in the J-pop world with the theme song 'Shiawase' featuring the esteemed singer Maaya Sakamoto.
After bringing his house productions to life via his Latin music inspired world touring band Rafa Orchestra, Rasmus created 'Platina Jazz', a Swedish big band covering Japanese anime songs. This original and, somewhat ephemeral concept band, became a huge success resulting in 9 albums, tens of millions of YouTube streams and regular concerts all over the world.
Under the last decade Rasmus's anime composer work has continued to develop, writing theme songs for Moriarty The Patriot and Takunomi, featuring Tasuku Hatanaka and Maaya Uchida respectively, and making his first full anime score for the Asterisk War, produced by A1 pictures in 2015. This action packed orchestral-electronic hybrid score (comprised of 150 separate arrangements) raised the bar for what Rasmus could achieve sonically and logistically, allowing his signature western electronic production styles to blend with the innocence and beauty of Japanese music.
Another full score was written and produced for the anime Harukana Receive (by Kadokawa) and saw Rasmus swap the dramatic, orchestral arrangements for sunny, Brazilian-inspired house and bossa nova to depict the Okinawa beaches in the story line. This showcased Rasmus's strength as a diverse and dynamic multi-instrumentalist and score composer.
More recently Rasmus undertook an epic, fully orchestral score commission for the Kyoukai Senki series by Bandai Namco Filmworks (formerly Sunrise Animation), his biggest production to date. Then switching genres completely to make a subtle and beautiful folktronica soundtrack for the YouTube anime series Artiswitch. He also recently composed music for the Facebook / Meta backed Soda Island project for the Oculus virtual reality platform and a number of tracks for computer games, all of which is testament to the Swede's constant quest for high production values and creative dexterity.
Rasmus continues to commercially release music under many alias names which have achieved hundreds of millions of streams as well as his own named releases such the single 'Be Real', at 23 million streams on Spotify and his 'acoustic house' album Two Left Feet.
It is this fact that Rasmus is an active, performing and releasing artist as well as a multi-instrumentalist, writer, composer (and procurer of exotic instruments) that enables him to create daring, boundary-pushing scoring and soundtrack work whilst, paradoxically thrive in the hedonistic, hit-em-and-quick world of dance music. It takes a special kind of ear combined with a technical knack, deft fingertips and ruthlessly efficient work ethic that makes for such voluminous and diverse creative output and a deep understanding of how music really works.
It was his success as an artist in Japan that enabled the Stockholmer to indulge his interest in manga and animation and make the natural progression into composing and producing music for anime. In 2009, Rasmus wrote and produced his first anime theme song 'Try Unite' (from Rinne No Lagrange) which became one of the biggest hits for the Japanese artist Megumi Nakajima. He also provided songs for the Macross franchise, working with anime heavyweights Yoko Kanno and lyricist Yuho Iwasato and enjoyed continued success in the J-pop world with the theme song 'Shiawase' featuring the esteemed singer Maaya Sakamoto.
After bringing his house productions to life via his Latin music inspired world touring band Rafa Orchestra, Rasmus created 'Platina Jazz', a Swedish big band covering Japanese anime songs. This original and, somewhat ephemeral concept band, became a huge success resulting in 9 albums, tens of millions of YouTube streams and regular concerts all over the world.
Under the last decade Rasmus's anime composer work has continued to develop, writing theme songs for Moriarty The Patriot and Takunomi, featuring Tasuku Hatanaka and Maaya Uchida respectively, and making his first full anime score for the Asterisk War, produced by A1 pictures in 2015. This action packed orchestral-electronic hybrid score (comprised of 150 separate arrangements) raised the bar for what Rasmus could achieve sonically and logistically, allowing his signature western electronic production styles to blend with the innocence and beauty of Japanese music.
Another full score was written and produced for the anime Harukana Receive (by Kadokawa) and saw Rasmus swap the dramatic, orchestral arrangements for sunny, Brazilian-inspired house and bossa nova to depict the Okinawa beaches in the story line. This showcased Rasmus's strength as a diverse and dynamic multi-instrumentalist and score composer.
More recently Rasmus undertook an epic, fully orchestral score commission for the Kyoukai Senki series by Bandai Namco Filmworks (formerly Sunrise Animation), his biggest production to date. Then switching genres completely to make a subtle and beautiful folktronica soundtrack for the YouTube anime series Artiswitch. He also recently composed music for the Facebook / Meta backed Soda Island project for the Oculus virtual reality platform and a number of tracks for computer games, all of which is testament to the Swede's constant quest for high production values and creative dexterity.
Rasmus continues to commercially release music under many alias names which have achieved hundreds of millions of streams as well as his own named releases such the single 'Be Real', at 23 million streams on Spotify and his 'acoustic house' album Two Left Feet.
It is this fact that Rasmus is an active, performing and releasing artist as well as a multi-instrumentalist, writer, composer (and procurer of exotic instruments) that enables him to create daring, boundary-pushing scoring and soundtrack work whilst, paradoxically thrive in the hedonistic, hit-em-and-quick world of dance music. It takes a special kind of ear combined with a technical knack, deft fingertips and ruthlessly efficient work ethic that makes for such voluminous and diverse creative output and a deep understanding of how music really works.
