While not something created directly by Masamune Shirow, I felt that I should include information on the various soundtracks made for Shirow's animated projects. I've only ever seen/heard the various Ghost in the Shell soundtracks, so for the most part, the others are simple track listings I found at Gracenote and YAACC. If you have any of these CDs, or any more information about them, I'd certainly love to know what you know. And yes, before you e-mail me about it, I do know that there is another GitS: SAC OST(called Be Human) availible, I just haven't taken the time to add in the information.
The most recent addition to my music collection, this 1988 album feels like a lighter version of an original Bubblegum Crisis soundtrack, with 80s J-Rock all over the place. According to Gracenote this is both an Image Album to the Manga and some of the background music from the OAV, with Kenji Yamamoto & Norimasa Yamanaka working on it. I still have to watch the OAV again, so I can't really verify that, but I wouldn't doubt it. In the CD is a small foldout insert with some brief character sketches, lyrics to a few tracks, and some other dialogue. Maybe sometime I'll get around to scanning the cd covers and insert for you, but that day is not today.
01 - Prologue - 1:35
02 - My Storm - 4:08
03 - Curious Game - 4:15
04 - Olympus - 1:59
05 - Crystal Celebration - 4:21
06 - Artemus Appear - 2:39
07 - Civvy Street - 3:36
08 - Life Point - 3:15
09 - Dead Or Alive - 3:38
10 - Appleseed - 5:44
11 - Ambivalence - 4:11
Next to no information for you here, aside from it being published by Futureland in 1987 and running 40m 11s. I have an artist name, but it is in kanji and babelfish doesn't do a good enough job of translating it for me.
01 - Finally
02 - Army
03 - Tension
04 - Action
05 - Morning
06 - Presentiment
07 - March
08 - City
09 - Crisis
10 - Gallery
11 - Attack
12 - Human Being
13 - Geometry
Somewhat more information on this 1988 release here, coming straight from the YAACC database:
01 - Main Title - 3:00
02 - CHERI-MU-N de odorasete - 4:17
- Hot Dance in Cherry Moon... - Shoujotai
03 - Misty City - 1:18
04 - TANKUPORISU no korinai tsuratsura - 3:23
- Tank-Police's Facets Not Learnt By Experience
05 - Leona no tsuiseki - 2:29
- Leona's Chase
06 - Hey Boy - 4:38
- Kaitou Riko
07 - TANKUSUPESHARU no zangai - 2:17
- Tank Special's Wreck
08 - kiken noudo - 1:26
- Dangerous Concentration
09 - kowareta RABIRINSU - 3:25
- Broken Labyrinth - Reiko of Shoujotai
10 - Megane to buntaichou - 2:17
- "Glasses" and "Squad leader"
11 - TANKUSUPESHARU no yuushi - 3:04
- Tank Special In High Spirits
12 - VAP RU-MU no kanja-tachi - 1:12
- All VAP Room's Patients
13 - Tanky boys! Tanky girls! - 4:05
- Kaitou Riko
14 - Ending - 2:14
15 - hoshi no ORUGO-RU ] - 4:41
- Starry music box (orgel) - Shoujotai
ONLY ON CD* -
16 - Honky-tonk Piano - 1:38
17 - DJ Music - 1:16
18 - omoi SASUPENSU - 1:01
- Ominous Suspense
19 - SASUPENSU no takamari - 0:40
- Rising Suspense
20 - Suspense Code - 0:18
21 - shuuen no BURIDJI - 0:33
- One's Death Bridge
22 - yokoku - n/a
- Announce beforehand
* Perhaps the tape release didn't have these tracks?
The information from this one is completely from Gracenote, meaning all I have is the track listing:
01 - Just Beyond The Time
02 - Tank Police Is Comming!
03 - Nasty Boyz
04 - Slaughter
05 - Lost Running City
06 - She's My Inspiration
07 - Floating Wave
08 - Anna & Uni
09 - Fire The Vulcan Cannon
10 - Momentary Rest
11 - Harbour Town ToughGuy
12 - I've Got To Earn, I've Got To Stand
13 - How To Write An Apology
14 - Wrecking Company
15 - Shinning Future
16 - Roll Out! Tank Police.
17 - Cold Devil's Plot
18 - Operation Destruction
19 - Newport City 20 - Sincere Note
21 - Genocide Song
22 - Wind Of Memories
23 - Bonaparte's Theme
24 - Just Falling In Love
A haunting masterpiece of ambience by Kenji Kawai, I'll have more information on it later, need to listen to it again first ^^;
01 - M01 utai I - Making of a Cyborg - 4:26
02 - M02 Ghosthack - 5:13
03 - EXM Puppetmaster - 4:18
04 - M04 Virtual Crime - 2:39
05 - M05 utai II - Ghost City - 3:34
06 - M06 Access - 3:14
07 - M07 Nightstalker - 1:43
08 - M08 Floating Museum - 5:02
09 - M09 Ghostdive - 5:50
10 - M10 utai III - Reincarnation - 5:40
11 - mai ten miru ikken! - 3:26
- Each Look At The Sky Is Like The First Look! / See You Everyday
- Bonus track with Fang Ka Wing
In my ever-ongoing file hunting, I somehow ended up with a second copy of the GitS soundtrack on my computer, and it was on the playlist last night, and all of it seemed familiar except for the last track which was titled as One Minute Warning, but it was a fairly energetic Chinese/Japanese Pop track called See You Everyday, as this didn't seem to fit the rest of the soundtrack I did some more digging on it. From what I can find on Amazon.com's listing of the soundtrack, this appears to be the correct track, and thanks to this site I was able to go and find it on the R1 DVD. It is also credited as such at the end of the movie as See You Everyday with Fang Ka Wing on vocals. The music playing during the credits is listed as One Minute Warning / Passengers(Brian Eno and U2) / vocals by Holi. As I can't seem to find a non-Japanese edition of the soundtrack, this track doesn't appear to have ever made a legitimate soundtrack.
Another Kenji Kawai masterpiece, the Innocence soundtrack feels much like the soundtrack from the first movie, but is still different enough to stand on its own. Two of the tracks are preformed by Kimiko Itoh, a Japanese Jazz vocalist with a gorgeous voice. After hearing her sing Follow Me on one of the Innocence trailers, one of my friends went and ordered her CD and tells me that its more good stuff, I'm still waiting for him to send it along... Anyhow, like I said, this one feels a lot like the first album, so anyone who liked that should keep an eye out for this one.
01 - Dungeon - 1:24
02 - Kugutsuuta ura mite chiru - 3:40
03 - Type 2052 "Hadalay" - 4:06
04 - River of Crystals - 5:48
- vocals by Kimiko Itoh
05 - Attack of the Wakabayashi - 3:31
06 - Etorofu - 3:55
07 - Kugusuuta aratayo nu kamutsudo hite - 5:11
08 - The Doll House I - 1:31
09 - The Doll House II - 2:56
10 - Kugutsuuta kagirohi ha yomi ni mata muto - 9:47
11 - Tohokami emi tame - 0:32
12 - Follow Me - 5:01
- vocals by Kimiko Itoh
Availible in two forms, the normal 1-disc version, and a limited 2-disc set, this soundtrack for the Playstation game is 100% techno, and just the kind I like. I recently acquired both versions of the soundtrack, but unfortunately the 2-disc version turned out to be an Ever Anime pirating job, so I'm still looking for a legit version of that, though I doubt I'll ever find it. Abou the only other thing worth noting before I get into track listings is that both versions come with good-sized foldout posters. The 1-disc version has the smaller of the two posters, being about 20" x 15", and contains a large pile of information on the back which seems to give summaries or something of the manga, game, and anime. The limited edition's poster, at least as the Ever Anime version makes it, is about twice as big, at about 30" x 20" and looks like it has all the same info as the other one(plus the track listing for the second disc) on the front side, with nothing on the back.
Disc 1
01 - Ghost in the Shell - 6:44:29
- Takkyu Ishino
02 - Firecracker - 5:25:14
- Mijk Van Dijk
03 - Ishikawa Surfs The System - 3:58:19
- Brother From Another Planet
04 - Spook & Spell (Fast Version) - 5:53:04
- Hardfloor
05 - Featherhall - 6:42:11
- Westbam
06 - The Vertical - 6:28:05
- Joey Beltram
07 - Blinding Waves - 4:44:21
- Scan X
08 - The Seacher Part II - 3:27:23
- The Advent
09 - Spectre - 5:46:13
- BCJ
10 - Can U Dig It - 7:17:23
- Dave Angel
11 - To Be Or Not To Be (Off The Cuff Mix) - 7:01:08
- Derrick May
Disc 2
01 - Fuchi Koma - 5:09:23
- Mijk Van Dijk
02 - Down Loader - 6:19:28
- The Advent
03 - Thanato - 3:27:13
- BCJ
04 - Moonriver - 8:09:03
- Westbam
05 - Brain Dive - 4:48:23
- Mijk Van Dijk
06 - Spook & Spell (Slow Version) - 6:30:19
- Hardfloor
07 - Die Dunkelsequenz - 7:33:07
- Westbam
08 - Section 9 Theme - 6:01:24
- Brother From Another Planet
09 - So High - 5:35:13
- Dave Angel
10 - To Be Or Not To Be (The Mix Of A Mix Mix) - 7:03:14
- Derrick May
While I imagine we might get a second soundtrack at one point, for the moment, Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex only has one soundtrack availible, with the music composed by Yoko Kanno, who has worked on a variety of well known projects, like Cowboy Bebop and Escaflowne, and has an amazing range of talent. Unfortunately I have not been able to find a copy of this CD for my collection, so all the information I have for you is limited to this track listing, which might be a little inaccurate on track lengths. As to how it actually sounds, it is something of a mix of styles, from guitar tracks that could have come from Bubblegum Crisis 2040, to rather somber ambient tracks, to a variety of English and Japanese vocal tracks, and a couple techno/funk tracks thrown in for good measure.
01 - Run Rabbit Junk - 3:47
- Yoko Kanno & Tim Jensen
02 - Yakitori - 5:07
- Yoko Kanno
03 - Sutamina Roozu - 2:51
- Stamina Rose - Yoko Kanno & Gabriella Robin
04 - Surf - 3:00
- Yoko Kanno
05 - Where Does This Ocean Go? - 3:57
- Yoko Kanno & Troy
06 - Train Search - 1:58
- Yoko Kanno
07 - Shibirian Dooru Hausu - 3:50
- Siberian Doll House - Yoko Kanno
08 - Velveteen - 5:06
- Yoko Kanno & Troy
09 - Lithium Flower - 3:25
- Yoko Kanno & Tim Jensen
10 - Home Stay - 3:57
- Yoko Kanno
11 - Inner Universe - 2:07
- Yoko Kanno & Origa & Shanti Snyder
12 - Fish ~ Silent Cruise - 7:30
- Yoko Kanno
13 - Some Other Time - 4:07
- Yoko Kanno
14 - Beauty Is Within Us - 6:08
- Yoko Kanno & Chris Mosdell
15 - We're The Great - 1:33
- Yoko Kanno
16 - Monokuroomu - 5:06
- Monochrome - Yoko Kanno & Troy
17 - Lithium Flower (TV Sized) - 1:30
- Yoko Kanno & Tim Jensen
With SAC Season 1 currently airing on regular TV in Japan, they have re-released the soundtrack with 'Plus' tacked on the end of the title, adding TV-Edits of the new openingand ending -
17 - GET9
- by Jillmax
18 - Rise
- by Origa
A new single released in conjunction with the airing of the first season of SAC on non-pay-per-view television to go with the new Opening and Ending themes. Unfortunately GET9 just doesn't have the right feel for SAC at all. Rise is passable, but GET9 just really really doesn't fit.
01 - GET9 - 4:44
- by jillmax
02 - rise - 5:30
- by Origa
03 - icy mice - 3:52
- by Gabriela Robin
04 - GET9 (naked) - 4:42
- Instumental version
This doesn't seem to actually qualify for OST status, as it doesn't consist of some of the tracks from the show that should have been on it. Instead a few tracks are from the show and the others are apparently from the Tachikoma-kun shorts that show up on the R2 DVDs. I've only seen about half of the specials and only a few of the tracks sounded familiar. On the whole it is a rather offbeat album, the only track that I really liked was FAX me, it really amuses me. I would have track lengths for you, but nobody seems to post them, and Gracenote is confusing as it lists a 22-track version of the album, which doesn't match anything I can find, mp3s aside.
01 - be human
02 - trip city
03 - patch me
04 - TACHIKOMA no iede
05 - Osanpo TACHIKOMA
06 - bang bang banquet
07 - FAX me
08 - ROKKII wa doko?
09 - spotter
10 - let's oil
11 - cream
12 - spider bites
13 - good by my master
14 - piece by ten
15 - what can I say?
