ZUNTATA

Zuntata is Taito's in-house band, consisting of Taito's composers and sound designers formed in 1986, which composed most of the soundtracks and music of the games in the Darius Series. Following its popularity in the late 80s, other game companies also created house bands as well such as Data East's Gamadelic, SEGA's SST Band, Konami's Konami Kukeiha Club and Capcom's Alfh Lyra.

The group was established in 1983, releasing their first collective music album, Darius - TAITO GAME MUSIC VOL.2, in 1987 under the Alpha Records/GMO label, moving to the Scitron label in 1988. During the 90s the group performed live shows and eventually established their own in-house label, Zuntata Records, in 1996.

Though Taito became a subsidiary of Square-Enix in 2005, Zuntata continued to work on sound development for the company, though many of its former members, including OGR, had left the group by then. The group still makes live performances, and many of its albums were made available on digital services such as iTunes and Spotify.