The (Sega Sound Team) was Sega's official in-house

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from 1988 to 1993, specializing in

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versions of Sega arcade game themes for Japan-only compilation albums and

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appearances. Consisting of six musicians who worked in Sega's sound department at the time, the band included

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s Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Katsuhiro Hayashi, and Kimitaka Matsumae;

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Koichi Namiki and Jouji Iijima;

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Sachio Ogawa and Shingo Komori; and drummer Takehiko Tanabe. Kawaguchi and Komori left the band in 1990 and were replaced by

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on keyboards and Masato Saito on bass, respectively. Usually, some of these albums that were released would consists of two especially recorded versions of the game soundtrack and the rest would consist of the game's original soundtrack. After the group split, the members resumed work on Sega projects. Mitsuyoshi composed the soundtrack to ''

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'', ''

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'' and the two installments of ''

Shenmue is an action-adventure game series created, produced and directed by Yu Suzuki. '' Shenmue'' (1999) and ''Shenmue II'' (2001) were developed by Sega AM2 and published by Sega for Dreamcast. '' Shenmue III,'' developed by Suzuki's company Y ...

'', while Matsumae would be involved in ''

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'' and ''

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''. Although the original group disbanded in 1993, in 2011, former members of the band reunited under the name "Blind Spot", still regularly releasing albums and performing concerts as of 2021.

Discography

All titles are released through

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unless stated.

Studio albums

Compilations

Standalone game soundtracks (GSM 1500 series)

Live album

Videography

Band lineups

References

External links

S.S.T.BAND BACK-UP TEAM (Fansite)1989 concert footage
{{Authority control Japanese instrumental musical groups Japanese rock music groups Sega Video game music cover bands Video game musicians