However, while Cowboy Bebop's gritty, futuristic film noir had a natural partner in jazz music, Samurai Champloo involves a much more deliberate musical choice: this slick and sarcastic retelling of feudal Japan is constructed around hip-hop. When his sophomore effort, Samurai Champloo, was finally released, it proved to be just as intricately interwoven with its soundtrack as its predecessor, setting up each landscape, dialogue, fight sequence, and montage with heaps of meticulously chosen and composed music. Over ten soundtracks were eventually released in conjunction with Cowboy Bebop, all of which both fans of the series and enthusiasts of jazz and blues music soaked up ravenously. When Sinchiro Wantanabe set to work on his first series after the monumentally successful Cowboy Bebop, he had quite a reputation to uphold, not just with regards to the show but also to its soundtrack.
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