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Books: Popular Music in Japan
By Jonathan Clements. In his new book Popular Music in Japan: Transformation Inspired by the West, Toru Mitsui repeatedly returns to the idea that multiple evolutions in Japanese tunes and songs have spurred directly from foreign influences. The examples he cites are from an impressively broad range of categories, spanning everything from leitmotifs, to subject […]
My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising vinyl soundtrack coming to All The Anime Shop
Following the recent news of our upcoming Attack on Titan Season 1 sound track vinyl release; us taking pre-orders for a Cowboy Bebop soundtrack vinyl produced by Milan Records; and the addition of a number of vinyl soundtracks (including Death Note) produced by Tiger Lab Vinyl, we’ve got more vinyl soundtrack news to share with […]
Music: Golgo 13
By Shelley Pallis. As Golgo 13 was Japan’s nihilistic answer to both Bond and the master-thieves of many a crime caper, many elements of the score (now re-released on vinyl) echo the kind of 1970s action movies that would surely have been on the mind of the film’s producers. It’s baffling, in fact, listening to […]
Music: Wicked City
By Shelley Pallis. I confess, I didn’t really remember anything from the soundtrack to Wicked City until this album turned up on the in-tray. In my defence, it has been more than 20 years since I saw it. Whereas there are snatches of Masamichi Amano’s score from Return of the Overfiend that I can still […]
Cowboy Bebop vinyl coming to the All The Anime Shop
Hot off the back of our recent launch of the Attack on Titan Season 1 Official Soundtrack vinyl for pre-order getting people very excited, we’ve been harking back to a recurring question we’ve received since we first announced we would be releasing soundtracks on vinyl – that being whether we’d ever release the Cowboy Bebop soundtracks on that format. These […]