DBZ-esque music in other shows.....

[Ree]

TV Tropes' Crowning Music of Awesome describes the music piece in this episode of Regular show - Think Positive- as sounding like Faulconer Productions music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcDFFIuVUS0

Sadly this is really the only example i can find but if you have any you can post them here
doesn't have to be from Faulconer Productions.

[Kakacarrottop]

There's a whole lot in the early seasons of "Power Rangers", since Ron Wasserman did the same style of music for both that and the Saban dub of DBZ.

And there's the music in the Ruby Spears Megaman / Monster Rancher cartoons, which were used in the later Ocean dub due to budget constraints.

[DarkPrince_92]

This... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQiGDdlJuPg

[Soppa Saia People]

MMPR and the ruby spears Mega Man cartoon. Also guess who voiced Mega Man in that show.

[DB1984]

MMPR and the ruby spears Mega Man cartoon. Also guess who voiced Mega Man in that show.

Ian James Corlett.

I'm sure you'd find DBZ-esque music in other shows Kikuchi composed music for.

[Soppa Saia People]

MMPR and the ruby spears Mega Man cartoon. Also guess who voiced Mega Man in that show.

Ian James Corlett

Yep. Also Scott McNeil voice Dr. Wily in that or CN:TGM (caption N: the game master)

[cRookie_Monster]

For Faulconer Productions

I think the Dune VGM has some similarities. (this one reminds me a bit of my Dead Zone theme)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IEqHOPeEhg
Though I hadn't heard these until much later, so they weren't an influence.

Some older music that I think indirectly influenced:

Tangerine Dream:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srVzEMM9d0U

Vangelis:
https://youtu.be/N-cF6PRCcVY?t=1m12s

I was never into Nitzer Ebb. I actually used to hate industrial when they were popular with the underground(way too repetitious for me and annoying vocals), but I think they paved the way.
https://youtu.be/OcECgEY6MH4?t=9s

And more directly:

Starcraft's Protoss Themes
https://youtu.be/ldp18SX88AM?t=42s
I think the sound of Pikkon's theme was inspired by Protoss music. I'm a HUGE fan of Blizzard's RTS games.

Vince Dicola - Transformers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaG_z2RSRNI
Some of the Spirit Bomb sparklies came from the Transformers score probably (ie at 1:32)

Final Fantasy. I must have played IX a bit near the end of my time at the studio. The soundtrack was awful MIDI, but the music was just genius.
https://youtu.be/s_o1Wj-hS3s?t=4h11m00s
https://youtu.be/s_o1Wj-hS3s?t=2h52m44s (android theme? holy crap)
https://youtu.be/s_o1Wj-hS3s?t=1h54m32s

This NIN album was pretty big for me and is what eventually got me into electronic and industrial sounds:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Wp1-ojmjN8
This one too to some degree:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5lQwJqrjkM
I learned some of the techiques we used by trying to emulate Trent Reznor's sounds.

For the heavy guitar stuff it was definitely Metallica:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pycizbGj0Ik

I think the fast Imperfect Cell theme was influenced by Arnold Schwarzenegger movie scores. Pulsing random low piano notes ^^
https://youtu.be/mRjkqW9sIXk?t=4m41s
https://youtu.be/oXnAxydhZ8M?t=1m10s
but evolving into Dream Theatre:
https://youtu.be/mipc-JxrhRk?t=1m20s

[TheRed259]

There is an anime called Carried by the Wind: Tsukikage Ran that has many soundtracks very close to Kikuchi's style imo.

[kei17]

Do Kikuchi's own compositions count?

[fadeddreams5]

I had no idea Kikuchi made the music for Tenchi in Tokyo. Wow.

That makes a lot of sense.

[Gonstead]

As I detailed in my "Has Kikuchi inspired other artists?" thread, this has a very Kikuchi sound to it - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMkIvjxONbU

[cRookie_Monster]

Here's some for Kikuchi from an old thread:

This one especially (ignore the silly movie)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoYT_CjhA7U
(crap..edit.., had the wrong link posted for a minute there)

So first his darker stuff, from this album:
Themes from Classic Science Fiction (Fantasy and Horror) (Amazon)
Clips:
EDIT: the old links are gone. I found some on youtube though:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2Ie8UQvzM8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKw_2qcl55g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixSj_fw9VVE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPkGOJYFH5Y (Henry Mancini - The Creature That Walks Among Us)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQschDYmYbw (Mancini - Terror Strikes)

Some of it Henry Mancini, one of the masters of film music back then.

If you like Kikuchi's style and you haven't listened to much Mancini, you're probably missing out. Not just for the dark stuff, I have a hunch he was imitating some of the more romantic and jazzy compositions Mancini composed as well, even though they were only about 6 years apart in age.

Wow this Elmer Bernstein one really reminds me of Kikuchi:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoYT_CjhA7U
(Bernstein seemed like a guy likely to have been an influence so was looking up his movies...I know the movie is cheesy...but it's the 50s XD)

....

For Kikuchi's sadder stuff I think he went for more of a simplified version of Baroque choral music (Bach, Vivaldi, Handel)
Bach http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UcM0gAPXmM
Vivaldi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uSf_PRla1E

http://www.kanzenshuu.com/forum/viewtop ... 12&t=16567

[Gonstead]

^^That old thread actually reminded me at one point I posted this in a Kikuchi topic - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5R3C4aHTdI

Not quite in Kikuchi's style but definitely around that time period you described and that distinct sound of that era.

[cRookie_Monster]

^^That old thread actually reminded me at one point I posted this in a Kikuchi topic - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5R3C4aHTdI

Not quite in Kikuchi's style but definitely around that time period you described and that distinct sound of that era.

It's got the vibraslap in there which is so typical of Kikuchi. Kikuchi may not have done the full blatant jazz style much for DB, but he did use that kind of instrumentation.
And for another show, he did this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQyuZ_cRpow