Jun Senoue

Jun Senoue is a Japanese video game composer and guitarist. He is also currently the guitarist for the Japanese-American rock band Crush 40. Senoue released an album in 2009, titled Jun Senoue The Works!. Ted Poley is featured in some of the songs. The album also contains a shorter version of the song Lift You Up, which was from the 1982 driving/racing game Out Run.

Senoue currently works as a sound director for SEGA and has worked on various games such as Sonic Adventure, Sonic Heroes and Sonic and The Black Knight. The Crush 40 Project was started to create music for 2000 arcade racing game, NASCAR Arcade. He started the project with Johnny Gioeli (Vocals), Takeshi Taneda (Bass) and Katsuji (Drums). The band now consists of Johnny, Takeshi and Toru wakumora on drums instead of Katsuji since 2005.

After NASCAR Arcade, Senoue was set to work on Sonic Adventure. Himself and the rest of the members from Crush 40 created the soundtrack for the game. Now they are a band creating music independent of video games, however they are still known best for creating music for these games.