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.

Spotify official anime playlist “Samurai Champloo”
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DXbXXaIQy2nTx

Distribution information

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

samurai champloo music records “departure” / Nujabes, fat jon
https://jvcmusic.lnk.to/SamuraiChamploo_departure

samurai champloo music records “masta” / FORCE OF NATURE, Tsutchie
https://jvcmusic.lnk.to/SamuraiChamploo_masta

samurai champloo music record “impression” / Nujabes, FORCE OF NATURE, fat jon
https://jvcmusic.lnk.to/SamuraiChamploo_impression

samurai champloo music records “playlist” / Tsutchie
https://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

1. battlecry / Nujabes feat. Sing02
2. the space between two world / Nujabes
3. aruarian dance / Nujabes
4. transcendence / Nujabes
5. mystline / Nujabes
6. 1st samurai / Nujabes
7. ole / fat jon
8. 624 part2 / fat jon
9. genome / fat jon
10. no way back / fat jon
11. funkin’ / fat jon
12. stay / fat jon
13. chambers / fat jon
14. ask / fat jon
15. how you feel / fat jon
16. 624 part1 / fat jon
17. Shiki No Uta / MINMI

samurai champloo music records “masta” / FORCE OF NATURE, Tsutchie

1. vagrancy / FORCE OF NATURE
2. mist / FORCE OF NATURE
3. judgment on / FORCE OF NATURE
4. loading zone / FORCE OF NATURE
5. paranoid / FORCE OF NATURE
6. silver children / FORCE OF NATURE
7. the long way of drums / FORCE OF NATURE
8. sneak chamber / FORCE OF NATURE
9. new dimension / FORCE OF NATURE
10. aw material / Tsutchie
11. dry / Tsutchie
12. breeezin’ / Tsutchie
13. tubed [drum please!!!] / Tsutchie
14. pretending to…/ Tsutchie
15. seventythree / Tsutchie
16. I sighed / Tsutchie
17. sincerely / Tsutchie
18. numbernine [back in TYO] / Tsutchie
19. YOU feat.kazami / Tsutchie

samurai champloo music record “impression” / Nujabes, FORCE OF NATURE, fat jon

1. just forget / FORCE OF NATURE
2. nightshift / FORCE OF NATURE
3. Hiizuru STYLE / FORCE OF NATURE
4. the stroll / FORCE OF NATURE
5. death wish / FORCE OF NATURE
6. set it off / FORCE OF NATURE
7. the million way of drum / FORCE OF NATURE
8. a space in air in space in air [interlude] / Nujabes
9. sanctuary ship / Nujabes
10. haiku [interlude] / Nujabes
11. tsurugi no mai / Nujabes
12. dead season / Nujabes
13. decade [interlude] / Nujabes
14. world without words / Nujabes
15. kodama [interlude] / Nujabes
16. silver morning / Nujabes
17. bracelet / fat jon
18. in position / fat jon
19. night out / fat jon
20. not quite seleah / fat jon
21. labyrinth statistic / fat jon
22. here and there / fat jon
23. who’s Theme / MINMI

samurai champloo music records “playlist” / Tsutchie

1. thank you / Tsutchie
2. yet? why not? / Tsutchie
3. strike back / Tsutchie
4. let me know what U think / Tsutchie
5. mists / Tsutchie
6. flip / Tsutchie
7. absolute / Tsutchie
8. adapt myself / Tsutchie
9. tuned / Tsutchie
10. no icon / Tsutchie
11. stretch out / Tsutchie
12. process / Tsutchie
13. reflective / Tsutchie
14. deeper than word / Tsutchie
15. 2 messages / Tsutchie
16. the update / Tsutchie
17. Offers / Tsutchie
18. FLY AZUMA RIKI [SMALL CIRCLE OF FRIENDS] / Tsutchie feat. AZUMA RIKI