Kobayashi Yamato has been played on NTS in shows including Ruf Dug, featured first on 6 March 2015. Songs played include Palace Hotel Tokyo: 雲の切れ間から昇順 - Spa Tape Compilation ＃２ − ２００２.

Hello my name is Kobayashi Yamato. I am a musician and ex-games music composer. In 1998 when sega had just released the dreamcast, I was working with a small growing games developer called SpecterSoft. We had just been granted a generous fund from a larger games development company to work on our first commercial game, "Pleasant Specter".

"Pleasant Specter" was an attempt to push boundaries in gaming and open up a more philosophical…