During the Nintendo Switch Experience 2017 event in Japan, on January 14th and January 15th, visitors could enjoy the Nintendo Game Music Live!. Those are live musical performances by the Nintendo Special Rock Band and Nintendo Special Big Band, featuring arrangements of music tracks from several Nintendo games.

In this post, you will find our own recordings of the live performances (to be replaced by the official recordings from Nintendo, once available), in case you missed it yourself (or simply want to watch it again).

The first performance was by the Nintendo Special Rockband, and they played the following tracks:

Splatoon (Splattack!, Seaskape)

Xenoblade Chronicles (Mechanical Rhythm, You Will Know Our Names)

Mario Kart 8 (Big Blue / F-Zero, Excitebike Arena, DS Wario Stadium, Bowser’s Castle, Electrodrome)

Splatoon 2 (Ink-oming, by Wet Floor, the game’s main theme)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vNx0u5c4n4

The second live performance was once again by the Nintendo Special Rockband. Unfortunately, they played more or less the same tracks as during the first one:

Splatoon (Splattack!, Friend List)

Xenoblade Chronicles (Mechanical Rhythm, You Will Know Our Names)

Mario Kart 8 (Big Blue / F-Zero, Excitebike Arena, DS Wario Stadium, Bowser’s Castle, Electrodrome)

Splatoon 2 (Ink-oming, by Wet Floor, the game’s main theme)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qM_FnlMCkdE

The third performance for the Nintendo Special Rock Band had more or less the same tracks as the previous two:

Splatoon (Splattack!, High Tide Era)

Xenoblade Chronicles (Mechanical Rhythm, You Will Know Our Names)

Mario Kart 8 (Big Blue / F-Zero, Excitebike Arena, DS Wario Stadium, Bowser’s Castle, Electrodrome)

Splatoon 2 (Ink-oming, by Wet Floor, the game’s main theme)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2XRYyFzSxg

As for the Nintendo Special Big Band, they played the following tracks:

Donkey Kong medley

Kirby medley

Animal Crossing medley

The Legend of Zelda medley

Pokémon medley

Fire Emblem medley

Super Mario medley

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28IsanbRZQs

Finally, here’s the list of artists for those Nintendo Game Music Live! performances:

Nintendo Special Big Band

Bass & Keyboard: SASAJI Masanori

Bass: KAWASAKI Teppei

Drums: OOTSUKI “Kalta” Hidenori

Guitar: HIJIKATA Takayuki

Percussion: Carlos KANNO

Trumpet: Eric MIYASHIRO

Trumpet: NISHIMURA Kouji

Trumpet: OKUMURA Akira

Trumpet: NIIDA Hitomi

Trombone: NAKAGAWA Eijirou

Trombone: MURATA Youichi

Trombone: HANDA Nobuhide

Bass Trombone: NONOSHITA Kouichi

Alto Sax: KONDOU Kazuhiko

Alto Sax: TERACHI Miho

Tenor Sax: IHARA Ryouji

Tenor Sax: TAKENO Masakuni

Baritone Sax: YAMAMOTO Takuo

Nintendo Special Rock Band

Arrange: OOYAMA Tetsuya

Drums:KADO Shuntarou

Bass: TABOKUN

Guitar: Koei”CO-K”Takafumi

Guitar: AYUMU

Keyboard: ODA Tomomi