T Square - Adventures (1984)

1. "Adventures (Prologue)" 0:00
2. "All About You" 1:33
3. "Night Dreamer" 5:03
4. "Sister Marian" 11:11
5. "Rodan" 15:56
6. "Jubilee" 19:21
7. "Cape Light" 24:13
8. "Travelers" 30:50
9. "Adventures (Epilogue)" 35:56

Alto Saxophone – Takeshi Itoh
Art Direction – Makoto Suzuki (4)
Co-producer – Michael Kawai, Yoshiko Sakazaki
Design – Makoto Suzuki (4)
Drums – Tohru Hasebe*
Electric Bass – Toyoyuki Tanaka
Electric Guitar – Masahiro Andoh
Engineer – Takeshi Ohshiro*, Yoshihiro Suzuki
Harp – Keiko Yamakawa
Horns – Kanesaki Group
Lyricon – Takeshi Itoh
Percussion – Kiyohiko Senba*
Photography By – Yoichiro Sato
Piano – Hirotaka Izumi
Producer – Yasohachi Itoh
Strings – Nakanishi Ensemble
Synthesizer – Hirotaka Izumi

[ROBUTERU]

12:14 Super Mario Bros. (NES)
16:55 Mario Kart - Battle Mode (SNES)
32:16 Street Fighter II - Guile Theme (SNES)

[unclenoob]

The best thing about this band is how many people don't know they grew up on their music.

[rockon]

いつ聞いても色褪せない

自分的に、
スター&ザ・ムーンと合わせ、
名盤中の名盤です！

[olufela]

Released only 15 months before "the game". This album was blasting in Kondo's studio during the writing process I'm sure.

[satoruaso]

In 1984, I made an amateur film with some friends.
We used the first song "Adventure Prologue" for the opening and the ninth song "Adventure Epilogue" for the ending.
I wrote the original story, wrote the script, shot, directed, edited, and played several roles.
It was a lot of work, but now it's a good memory.
I would like to see my friends from those days again.

[浩嗣浦邊]

スクウェアを知ったきっかけは当時cmに使用された オールアバウトユー, トラベラーズ でしたね‼️そしてこのアルバムも買っちゃった❗️

[みっちゃん]

当時お小遣いを貯めて
地元に来たツアー見に行きました👀
生のリリコンサウンド今でも忘れられません(T_T)

[ikagura]

J Fusion is one of the best genre I've ever heard

[JoLynRol]

1. "Adventures (Prologue)" 0:00
2. "All About You" 1:33
3. "Night Dreamer" 5:03
4. "Sister Marian" 11:11
5. "Rodan" 15:56
6. "Jubilee" 19:21
7. "Cape Light" 24:13
8. "Travelers" 30:50
9. "Adventures (Epilogue)" 35:56

[MattMichPro]

You can tell Mario Kart 8 music is inspired by this albums sound. Love it!

[SlimeThest]

If you want to hear more of Japanese jazz i recommend

Yutaka Yokokura = Breath Of Night

Yutaka Yokokura = Dragonfly

[DonkeykongSw]

First 15 seconds - TVQ Fukuoka previous sign-on.
12:02/12:15 SMB-Overworld theme.
15:58 SMK Battle Mode theme.
17:59 F-Zero like theme.
24:26 Sounds like Sendai Broadcasting Sign-on song part in the 90s.
32:16 SF2 - Guile Theme (thanks to some other comments around here)

Their stuff are often used by TV stations in Japan, Thailand, Cambodia, etc.
Edit : 1:32-1:43 Rainbow Road 64 early part-alike / 1:51 Rainbow Road DS early part-alike
2:27 Duck Tales Moon Theme (thanks again to another comment)
19:53 Waluigi Pinball-alike (thanks again to another comment)

[Alterinno]

Everyone is talking about Mario but you guys never noticed my boi Waluigi at 19:53, Waluigi Pinball stage to be exact from Mario Kart

[waluigimayar]

I just came here to Mario( and also Waluigi)

[TheRealKaiProton]

I came here because of the Super Mario links, but stayed because T-Square are awesome

[maxitours]

I get a mad pilotwings vibe from this. I love it

[augustoortmeierarzivenco]

The rhythm precision and feel on japanese pop, jazz and rock is really good!

[TheOnlyRiktor]

holy shit, you can hear so many places where snes music got its inspiration. wtf this is surreal. This album RIPS

[VID_X]

Thank you Terminal Passage!
Because of you, I discovered this album (which became one of my favorite all time), you also introduced TSQUARE- who are now one of my all time favorite bands and I have listened to so many of their consistently incredible albums!

Thanks again and much love!

[_Bandit]

31:19 hahaha this is from castlevania dracula x (vampire kiss) for snes. First level. The name of the song is Bloodlines.