Composed and Arranged by June Chikuma / 
Musicians : June Chikuma(key, nai, prog), Kaoru Akimoto(g, vo), Hirohiko Otsubo(b) / from SEGA SATURN Saturn Bomberman / 竹間ジュン

Saturn Bomberman/June Chikuma

Another Interplanetary Star Creature team up for a Chicago <-> Tokyo expedition across a fusional soundscape ranging from bossa nova lounge to pre-vaporwave exotica; new age city pop to minimal library boogie.

June Chikuma is best known now for her ground breaking Video Game soundtrack throughout the late 1980s and early 90s, most notably the now cult-classic status Bomberman Hero OST for Nintendo. During this same period of the late , she produced many recordings for a wide variety of clients including Japanese Public Transit Commercials, Video Game Arcades and VHS Nature Documentaries.

We reached out to June in 2019 with the hopes of combing her archives to present the modern listener base here on Earth. We selected a nice mix of tracks as entry point in June's work. These tracks have been rescued from obscurity, remastered and waxed up for contemporary universal enjoyment.

Hear Chikuma & Co. interpret influence's from Kraftwerk to Steely Dan, Herbie Hancock to Eric Dolphy, and Composers Ali Sriti to Paul Hindemith across a legendary line up of hardware synths ranging from Yamaha DX7, Korg Polysix, Roland D-550, and Oberheim Matrix-1000.

A2 -June Chikuma -  Back In My Arms

think about it

Casual Birder & Artwork by Diego Garcia
https://play.date/games/casual-birder/

Bandcamp

A Birder Of Crows ~ Shop BGM

Composed and Arranged by June Chikuma /
Musicians : June Chikuma(keyboards), Kaoru Akimoto(g, vo) /
from SEGA SATURN Saturn Bomberman / Amusement World / 竹間ジュン

Saturn Bomberman No.4 (Jungle Locomotive Mix)

Composed and Arranged by June Chikuma / 
Musicians : June Chikuma(keyboards), Kaoru Akimoto(g) / 
from SEGA STURN Saturn Bomberman / 竹間ジュン


Saturn Bomberman No.3 (Minimoog Mix)

Composed and Arranged by June Chikuma / 
Musicians : June Chikuma(keyboards), Kaoru Akimoto(g) / 
from SEGA SATURN Saturn Bomberman / Intro / 竹間ジュン


Saturn Bomberman No.1 Funky Breakbeat Remix

Saturn Bomberman No.5 (Japan-oriented Techno Mix)

Composed and Arranged by June Chikuma / 
Musicians : June Chikuma(keyboards), Kaoru Akimoto(g) / 
from SEGA SATURN Saturn Bomberman / 竹間ジュン

Saturn Bomberman No.2 (Over Drive Guitar Mix)

https://soundcloud.com/krisena/butterfly-2023
https://soundcloud.com/ygasasa/krisena-butterfly-nabokov-mix

ƸӜƷ (Krisena - Butterfly cover)

@zoomlight http://twitter.com/zoomlight00
@chimeratio http://twitter.com/chimeratio_
http://twitter.com/corruptovolans http://cryptovolans.bandcamp.com

Zoomlight - Op. 40 No. 8, Finale (CAPUCH~8.INI)

June Chikuma's Nay Improvisation on the electric soundtrack / Composed by June Chikuma　竹間ジュン　ナイ・タクスィーム

Thoughtscape No.2

Remix of April City from the Lovely Planet 2 OST by the wonderful @calumbowen

bandcamp: https://calumbowen.bandcamp.com/album/lovely-planet-2-april-skies-original-soundtrack
steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1019590/Lovely_Planet_2_April_Skies/

Calum Bowen - April City (Maxo Grassmix)

S3XMODITMANIA VII, ROUND 2
.it format, 31 channels
1/13

arena.sincx.xyz/battle.php?id=12

Matcha Castle

4th/14

https://battleofthebits.org/arena/XHB/5423/
http://2a03.free.fr/dl.php?file=6266

fiji coast (botb xhb no. 128)

"The Midas Touch" is available now as a vinyl LP and digital formats on Star Creature
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a.k.a. Jun Chikuma, 竹間ジュン - Arabic Nay Player and composer. Presides a classical Arabic music ensemble "Le Club Bachraf".

Saturn Bomberman No.2 (Over Drive Guitar Mix)

June Chikuma

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