Konami , is a Japanese Multinational corporation, multinational video game company, video game and entertainment company headquartered in Chūō, Tokyo, Chūō, Tokyo, it also produces and distributes trading cards, anime, tokusatsu, pachinko machin ...

's sound team. It is often confused with 矩形波倶楽部 (

Kukeiha Club , stylized as KuKeiHa CLUB, is a band that was formed by Motoaki Furukawa, a composer, arranger, and producer working for the game firm Konami, after his work on ''Gradius III'' back in 1990. It is often confused with コナミ矩形波倶楽部 ( ...

), Konami's in-house band that has released albums consisting of their

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performances. They are primarily responsible for the sound and music in the majority of Konami video games. One of their best known works is the soundtrack to '' Gensō Suikoden'' — the majority of the material being composed by member

Miki Higashino is a Japanese video game composer best known for her works in the '' Suikoden'' series. Biography Miki Higashino first began composing video game music as a student employed by Konami and contributed to various minor products, often uncredited ...

(Miki-Chan).

Motoaki Furukawa Motoaki (written: 基昭 or 基朗) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese composer *Motoaki Tanigo (谷御元昭), founder and CEO of COVER Corporation, parent company of Hol ...

(main arranger and guitarist) has been known to perform live with members not part of the in-house band, credited under "Konami Kukeiha Club". For example, disc 1 of the ''Konami All Stars: The Senryo-Bako Heisei 4 Nen Ban'' album (KICA-1053~55) is titled "Konami Kukeiha Club Live in Tōkyō."

Members (past and present)

Aki Hata is a Japanese musician, singer, lyricist and composer. She is noted for having penned and composed songs for various anime and video games, including popular titles like '' Zettai Shōnen'', ''Azumanga Daioh'', ''Haibane Renmei'', '' Suzumiya Har ...

*Akihiro Juichiya *Akiko Hashimoto *Akiko Ito *Akira Souji *

Akira Yamaoka is a Japanese composer and music producer. He is best known for composing music for several video games in the ''Silent Hill'' series by Konami, among other games. Yamaoka also worked as a producer on the series, as well as composing for the '' ...

*Atsushi Fujio *Ayako Nishigaki *Harumi Ueko *Hidehiro Funauchi *Hideki Shikama *Hidenori Maezawa *Hideto Inoue *Hideyuki Eto *Hiroe Noguchi *Hirofumi Taniguchi *Hiroshi Tamawari *Iku Mizutani *Jun Chuma *Jun Funahashi *Junichiro Kaneda *

Junya Nakano is a Japanese video game composer. After working for Konami in the early 1990s, he was employed by Squaresoft and then Square Enix from 1995 to 2009. He is best known for scoring ''Threads of Fate'' and co-composing ''Final Fantasy X'' for Squa ...

*Kaori Kinouchi *Katsuhiko "Nazo²" Suzuki *Kazuhiko Uehara *Kazuhiro Senoo *Kazuhito Imai *Kazuki Muraoka *Keizo Nakamura *Kenichi Matsubara *

Kenichiro Fukui is a Japanese video game composer and electronic musician. Before working at Square Enix, he was employed at Konami. He was also an arranger and a keyboardist in the band The Black Mages. Additionally, Fukui arranged Angela Aki's "Kiss Me Good-By ...

*Keroppy Inoue *

Kinuyo Yamashita is a Japanese composer and musician known for her contributions in video games. Her best known soundtrack is Konami's '' Castlevania'', which was also her debut work. She was co-credited with Satoe Terashima under the pseudonym James Banana for ...

*Kiyohiko Yamane *Kiyohiro Sada *Kouji Murata *Kozo Nakamura *M. Shirakawa *Mariko Egawa *Masae Nakashima *Masahiko Kimura *Masahiro Ikariko *Masanari Iwata *Masanori Adachi *Masanori Adachi *Masanori Oouchi *Mayuko Kageshita *

Michiru Yamane is a Japanese video game composer and pianist. Yamane's musical style draws on baroque, classical and rock traditions, with both Johann Sebastian Bach and Yellow Magic Orchestra as prominent influences. She is best known for her two decades ...

*Mikio Saito *Motoaki Furukawa *Mutsuhiko Izumi * Naoki Maeda *Naomitsu Ariyama *Nobuyuki Akena *Noriko Gushiken *Noriko Takahashi *Norio Hanzawa *Noritada Matsukawa *S. Masuda *Saiko Miki *Satoe Terashima *Satoko Miyawaki *Seiichi Fukami *Seiya Murai *Shigehiro Takenouchi *Shigemasa Matsuo *Shigeru Fukutake *Shinji Tasaka *Shinya Sakamoto *Takahito Uenishi *Tappi Iwase *Taro Kudo *Tomoko Nishikawa *Tomoko Sano *Tomoya Tomita *Tsutomu Ogura *Tsuyoshi Sekito *Yousuke Uno *Yasuhiko Manno *Yoshiaki Hatano *Yoshihiko Koezuka *Yoshinori Sasaki *Yoshiyuki Hagiwara *You Takamine *Yuichi Asami *Yuichi Sakakura *

Yuji Takenouchi , also known as TECHNOuchi, is a Japanese composer, sound designer, and musician. Career Takznouchi began his career in the game industry at Konami in 1989, which proved to be challenging as he had no formal musical training. Takenouchi wanted t ...

*Yukie Morimoto *Yuko Chan *Yuko Kurahashi

References

External links

古川もとあきStation: Motoaki Furukawa Official Web Site

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