Anime Music & Samples

Krafty · Post by **Krafty** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 10:53 am

I've been watching Champloo and am currently up to episode 15; in ep 13 "Dark Nights Road" when Mugen is on the ship with Mukuro the music playing is a loop of the first four bars from "It's a New Day" by THE SKULLSNAPS. (705kb MP3 sample)

I love listening out for music samples and it's great to be able to pick some out from other films/songs etc. Even though Hip Hop is littered with the Skullsnaps/Honeydrippers/Apache/Whoo Yeah/Funky Worm breaks...

Another sound I recognized was from the video game Tenchu 3 (78kb MP3) which I later heard as a 'suspense' symbol in the 2002 Japanese film Tokyo Eleven. Must be a preset synth sound! heh heh

Have you heard any music samples in anime, games or music which sound similar to exisiting works?

Wendy · Post by **Wendy** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 1:05 pm

Well..there's some music during the Gravitation TV series that I KNOW I've heard before.

You can listen to it here:

Melting Noise

I just know where to place it though...

Krafty · Post by **Krafty** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 2:51 pm

Hmmm, I'm not too clued up on (Acid) Jazz but I wonder if that Gravitation music is inspired by Grant Green or Donel O'Levy, a couple of renouned guitarists in this field. It has the same feel as their traditional stuff. I know there are plenty of Jazz fans in Japan so I wouldn't be surprised if this was an original music track by a local band, maybe there's a Gravitation CD booklet out there with more info?

Wendy · Post by **Wendy** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 2:58 pm

No, I own the original Japanese CD, this was taken from it directly, but sadly there's no mention of the song in the booklet.

I'm not really into Jazz either but I kind of like this song

And I know I've heard it before, I just don't know where.