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
- 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
- aw 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 record “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 AZUMA RIKI [SMALL CIRCLE OF FRIENDS] / Tsutchie feat. AZUMA RIKI
