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