Release Date: 30th June 2017
Limited edition LP + 7” + OBI + Silver Foil + Extensive 24-page liner notes booklet, 350g sleeve, Black Inners, Authorised Official Original Soundtrack! - The first ever OFFICIAL vinyl release of the soundtrack for Mamoru Oshii’s legendary science fiction anime film GHOST IN THE SHELL (1995). - LP + Bonus 7inch cut from the original master reels at Emil Berliner Studios, official Ghost in the Shell artwork with sliver gilt printing, Japanese obi, extensive liner notes.
We Release Whatever The Fuck We Want Records is thrilled and honored to announce the first ever official vinyl pressing of the soundtrack for Mamoru Oshii’s critically acclaimed and all around legendary science fiction anime film GHOST IN THE SHELL (1995), adapted from Masamune Shirow’s groundbreaking manga series of the same name. Cut from the original master reels at Emil Berliner Studios (formerly the in-house recording department of renowned classical record label Deutsche Grammophon), the album comes as a LP accompanied by a bonus one-sided 7″ housed in official Ghost in the Shell artwork sleeve with silver gilt printing and a Japanese obi, and contains extensive 24-page liner notes. The haunting score is composed by Kenji Kawai, one of Japan’s most celebrated soundtrack composers, alongside Joe Hisaishi and Ry?ichi Sakamoto, whose work includes Hideo Nakata’s Ring (1998) and Ring 2 (1999), Death Note (2006), Hong Kong films Seven Swords by Tsui Hark (2005) and Ip Man by Wilson Yip (2008), and countless others. Kawai’s compositions see ancient harmonies and percussions uncannily mesh with synthesized sounds of the modern world to convey a sumptuous balance between folklore tradition and futuristic outlook.
a1. ?I - Making Of Cyborg
a2. Ghosthack
a3. Puppetmaster
a4. Virtual Crime
a5. ?II - Ghost City
b1. Access
b2. Nightstalker
b3. Floating Museum
b4. Ghostdive
b5. ?III - Reincarnation
Bonus 7″
a1. ??? ?????! (See You Everyday)