Zuntata
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Zuntata is Taito Corporation
's "house band" composed of Taito developers. The members include Hisayoshi Ogura
(OGR), Tamayo Kawamoto, Masahiko Takaki (Mar.), Norihiro Furukawa, Yasuhisa Watanabe (Yack), Shuichiro Nakazawa (SHU), Kazuko Umino (karn.), Tomohito Takahashi, Munehiro Nakanishi, and Katsuhisa Ishikawa.
Supposedly, Hisayoshi Ogura
is the original member of Zuntata and founded the band.
They are known in part for the soundtrack of games like Bubble Bobble
, the Darius series
and the Ray series (RayForce
, Raystorm
and Raycrisis
), among others.
In 2006, one of the members, Tamayo Kawamoto, left Zuntata and founded the band Betta Flash together with the singer Cyua. Tamayo and Cyua formerly worked together for a track on the Ray'z Premium Box called "Ray'z - Beyond -".
Taito Corporation
The is a Japanese publisher of video game software and arcade hardware wholly owned by publisher Square Enix. Taito has their headquarters in the Shinjuku Bunka Quint Building in Yoyogi, Shibuya, Tokyo, sharing the facility with its parent company....
's "house band" composed of Taito developers. The members include Hisayoshi Ogura
Hisayoshi Ogura
is a former member of Taito Corporation's "house band" Zuntata. He is best known for his musical compositions in the Darius arcade series. His musical style is often experimental electronica; however, in Zoids Infinity Ex he focused on more on an orchestrated soundtrack...
(OGR), Tamayo Kawamoto, Masahiko Takaki (Mar.), Norihiro Furukawa, Yasuhisa Watanabe (Yack), Shuichiro Nakazawa (SHU), Kazuko Umino (karn.), Tomohito Takahashi, Munehiro Nakanishi, and Katsuhisa Ishikawa.
Supposedly, Hisayoshi Ogura
Hisayoshi Ogura
is a former member of Taito Corporation's "house band" Zuntata. He is best known for his musical compositions in the Darius arcade series. His musical style is often experimental electronica; however, in Zoids Infinity Ex he focused on more on an orchestrated soundtrack...
is the original member of Zuntata and founded the band.
They are known in part for the soundtrack of games like Bubble Bobble
Bubble Bobble
is an arcade game by Taito, first released in 1986 and later ported to numerous home computers and game consoles. The game, starring the twin Bubble Dragons and , is an action-platform game in which players travel through one hundred different stages, blowing and bursting bubbles, avoiding...
, the Darius series
Darius series
Darius is a series of side-scrolling shoot 'em up video games, released by Taito. When it started, its primary difference from other top first-generation scrolling shooters, such as R-Type and Gradius, was the ability to select different levels on the way to the final areas...
and the Ray series (RayForce
RayForce
RayForce is a vertical space shooter style game by Taito released for the Taito F3 arcade hardware in 1993 and later ported to the Sega Saturn in 1995....
, Raystorm
RayStorm
RayStorm is a scrolling shooter developed by the Taito Corporation . Originally released in Japan as an arcade game in 1996, it was later ported there to Sony's PlayStation game console in 1997, to the Sega Saturn in that same year, and to Windows-based personal computers in 2001...
and Raycrisis
RayCrisis
RayCrisis, known as RayCrisis: Series Termination in North America, is the third game released in the "Ray" series of Taito shooting games. Chronologically, it is considered a prequel to the first game, RayForce...
), among others.
In 2006, one of the members, Tamayo Kawamoto, left Zuntata and founded the band Betta Flash together with the singer Cyua. Tamayo and Cyua formerly worked together for a track on the Ray'z Premium Box called "Ray'z - Beyond -".
External links
- Zuntata official site
- Betta Flash official site
- Artist profile at OverClocked ReMixOverClocked ReMixOverClocked ReMix, also known as OC ReMix and OCR, is a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving and paying tribute to video game music through arranging and re-interpreting the songs with new technology and software, as well as by various traditional means...