[a](Other Music) samurai champloo TV Series music record "masta" by Tsutchie / FORCE OF NATURE [Cassette Tape, First Run Limited Edition]

Release Date: 11/06/2024
Specification: Cassette
Catalog Number: VTTL-2

"Samurai Champloo" was directed by Shinichiro Watanabe of "Cowboy Bebop" and "The Animatrix" fame.

Sampling a wide range of factors—period drama and hip-hop, Ryukyuans and mainlanders, samurai and modern people—to create a fresh champloo (mix): a samurai action road trip movie. All four installments of the legendary 2004 "samurai champloo music record" CD series that collected the tracks by Nujabes, Fat Jon and more is getting a cassette tape release to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Samurai Champloo!

Samurai Champloo is a TV anime series that originally aired on Fuji TV from 2004 to 2005. The never-before-seen style, which blended historical action/drama with modern hip-hop culture and featured a hip-hop exclusive soundtrack, made waves all over the world. The director Shinichiro Watanabe was well known for creating anime with a perfect sense of music, from "Cowboy Bebop" to "Macross Plus."

The music is brought to you by four trackmakers: Nujabes, fat jon, FORCE OF NATURE and Tsutchie. Each of their styles come together to create something like an original album. Every single track still shines brightly even now. It's a masterpiece that hip-hop artists in particular to this day share wholeheartedly with the next generation. In 2022, the series' vinyl reissue became a runaway hit, selling over 30,000 copies total.

The 2nd music record is brought to you by FORCE OR NATURE and Tsutchie.

≪Content≫
(Side A)
01. vagrancy / FORCE OF NATURE
02. mist / FORCE OF NATURE
03. judgment on / FORCE OF NATURE
04. loading zone / FORCE OF NATURE
05. paranoid / FORCE OF NATURE
06. silver children / FORCE OF NATURE
07. the long way of drums / FORCE OF NATURE
08. sneak chamber / FORCE OF NATURE
09. new dimension / FORCE OF NATURE

(Side B)
01. raw material / Tsutchie
02. dry / Tsutchie
03. breeezin' / Tsutchie
04. tubed[drum please!!!] / Tsutchie
05. pretending to…/ Tsutchie
06. seventythree / Tsutchie
07. I sighed / Tsutchie
08. sincerely / Tsutchie
09. numbernine[back in TYO] / Tsutchie
10. YOU feat.kazami / Tsutchie