Samurai Champloo Soundtrack by Nujabes, fat jon, FORCE OF NATURE, and Tsutchie Released on Music Subscription Services Worldwide!


What You Need to Know:

  • Samurai Champloo, airing in 2004, stands as a groundbreaking anime directed by Shinichirō Watanabe. Seamlessly blending historical drama and hip-hop elements, it crafts a unique visual and musical experience that captivated anime enthusiasts and hip-hop fans alike, earning acclaim domestically and internationally.
  • Director Watanabe, known for his deep appreciation of music, selected four well-known hip-hop artists for this project: Nujabes, fat jon, FORCE OF NATURE, and Tsutchie. The tracks they created for Samurai Champloo were released across four CDs – “departure,” “masta,” “impression,” and “playlist” – and became a smash hit. They were reissued as vinyl in 2022, and the vinyl versions sold an impressive 20,000 copies, maintaining popularity to this day.
  • Now, in 2024, the 20th anniversary of Samurai Champloo’s TV broadcast, these soundtracks will finally be available on music subscription services worldwide. As the CDs are currently hard to come by, and a record player is required to listen to the vinyl records, this release will enable both domestic and international fans to easily access the soundsource.
  • In conjunction with this announcement, an official anime playlist has also been released on Spotify. We hope you will check it out.
  • As we celebrate the 20th anniversary of the TV broadcast of Samurai Champloo in 2024, various plans are in the works, so please stay tuned for future updates.
  • Distribution Information

    Available on streaming services and major download sites such as the iTunes Store, RecoChoku, and mora!

    Spotify Official Anime Playlist “Samurai Champloo”
    open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DXbXXaIQy2nTx

    Samurai Champloo Music Records “Departure” / Nujabes, fat jon
    jvcmusic.lnk.to/SamuraiChamploo_departure

    Samurai Champloo Music Records “Masta” / FORCE OF NATURE, Tsutchie
    jvcmusic.lnk.to/SamuraiChamploo_masta

    Samurai Champloo Music Records “Impression” / Nujabes, FORCE OF NATURE, fat jon
    jvcmusic.lnk.to/SamuraiChamploo_impression

    Samurai Champloo Music Records “Playlist” / Tsutchie
    jvcmusic.lnk.to/SamuraiChamploo_playlist

    Streaming services: Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube Music, LINE MUSIC, Amazon Music, Deezer, AWA, Rakuten Music, KKBOX, TOWER RECORDS MUSIC

    Tracks

    Samurai Champloo Music Records “Departure” / Nujabes, fat jon

    battlecry / Nujabes feat. Sing02
    the space between two world / Nujabes
    aruarian dance / Nujabes
    transcendence / Nujabes
    mystline / Nujabes
    1st samurai / Nujabes
    ole / fat jon
    624 part2 / fat jon
    genome / fat jon
    no way back / fat jon
    funkin’ / fat jon
    stay / fat jon
    chambers / fat jon
    ask / fat jon
    how you feel / fat jon
    624 part1 / fat jon
    Shiki No Uta / MINMI

    Samurai Champloo Music Records “Masta” / FORCE OF NATURE, Tsutchie

    vagrancy / FORCE OF NATURE
    mist / FORCE OF NATURE
    judgment on / FORCE OF NATURE
    loading zone / FORCE OF NATURE
    paranoid / FORCE OF NATURE
    silver children / FORCE OF NATURE
    the long way of drums / FORCE OF NATURE
    sneak chamber / FORCE OF NATURE
    new dimension / FORCE OF NATURE
    raw material / Tsutchie
    dry / Tsutchie
    breeezin’ / Tsutchie
    tubed [drum please!!!] / Tsutchie
    pretending to…/ Tsutchie
    seventythree / Tsutchie
    I sighed / Tsutchie
    sincerely / Tsutchie
    numbernine [back in TYO] / Tsutchie
    YOU feat.kazami / Tsutchie

    Samurai Champloo Music Records “Impression” / Nujabes, FORCE OF NATURE, fat jon

    just forget / FORCE OF NATURE
    nightshift / FORCE OF NATURE
    Hiizuru STYLE / FORCE OF NATURE
    the stroll / FORCE OF NATURE
    death wish / FORCE OF NATURE
    set it off / FORCE OF NATURE
    the million way of drum / FORCE OF NATURE
    a space in air in space in air [interlude] / Nujabes
    sanctuary ship / Nujabes
    haiku [interlude] / Nujabes
    tsurugi no mai / Nujabes
    dead season / Nujabes
    decade [interlude] / Nujabes
    world without words / Nujabes
    kodama [interlude] / Nujabes
    silver morning / Nujabes
    bracelet / fat jon
    in position / fat jon
    night out / fat jon
    not quite seleah / fat jon
    labyrinth statistic / fat jon
    here and there / fat jon
    who’s Theme / MINMI

    Samurai Champloo Music Records “Playlist” / Tsutchie

    thank you / Tsutchie
    yet? why not? / Tsutchie
    strike back / Tsutchie
    let me know what U think / Tsutchie
    mists / Tsutchie
    flip / Tsutchie
    absolute / Tsutchie
    adapt myself / Tsutchie
    tuned / Tsutchie
    no icon / Tsutchie
    stretch out / Tsutchie
    process / Tsutchie
    reflective / Tsutchie
    deeper than word / Tsutchie
    2 messages / Tsutchie
    the update / Tsutchie
    Offers / Tsutchie
    FLY feat. AZUMA RIKI [SMALL CIRCLE OF FRIENDS] / Tsutchie feat. AZUMA RIKI

Source: Official Press Release