On the Floor – Chip Tanaka at Diggin’ in the Carts

*Metroid* and *Dr. Mario* composer Chip Tanaka has played his part in shaping the sound of electronic music worldwide. Those songs from *Super Mario* that used to get stuck on an endless loop in your head? Hirokazu “Hip” Tanaka (AKA Chip Tanaka) composed those, and he also composed Game Boy audio hardware, sound effects for *Tetris* and *Donkey Kong* and he wrote songs for the first Pokémon. A DJ and huge reggae fan, Tanaka even based some of those video game jams on iconic Jamaican riddims.