With Japanese electronic composers Denki Groove on soundtracking duties, this is far from the only acknowledgement of the 303 in Eureka Seven.
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But while the influence of the 303 within Ghost in the Shell is strong, it hasn’t been felt more strongly than in Eureka Seven.Įureka Seven spanned 50 episodes of a TV show, six manga adaptations, a short novel, three video games, and a feature-length film, picking up a host of awards along the way. Most notably, the show’s main theme “ Inner Universe” (produced by Yoko Kanno) relies heavily on a distorted 303 bassline, but a more subtle reference exists, oddly, on the side of this pig in a blink-and-you’ll-miss it moment from the series.
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Mainstream hits like TV series Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex pay homage to the TB-303 on a few occasions. Afro Samurai, for example, is a film and TV series set during a feudal alternate reality that follows the vengeance mission of a samurai voiced by Samuel L Jackson, while 2003’s Gin Tama revolves around an alien invasion during Japan’s Edo period. The plots behind some of anime’s biggest hits lie in Japanese history, but they’re fused with the present or future.
Japan is home to a unique culture, where western influences are absorbed and reimagined in extraordinary ways, and their adoption of the 303 is an extension of that: the retro-futuristic sound of acid house almost perfectly represents the frenetic madness of Japanese culture, and from J-pop and anime to gaming and advertising, the broad cultural impact of the machine in Japan is arguably wider than our own.īoth anime and the TB-303 share the characteristic of being both futuristic and otherworldly, yet embedded in the past. Yet after acid house started to spread around the world, Japan readopted the instrument and experimented with the machine’s capabilities in different forms. Initially it was a flop, shifting only 10,000 units before its discontinuation in 1984 after just 18 months (when Phuture bought a 303 for “Acid Tracks”, they got it on the cheap from a second-hand shop – it didn’t even come with English-language instructions). The TB-303 was originally created by a Japanese company, the Roland Corporation, as an accompaniment for live bands. While the likes of The Chemical Brothers, Fatboy Slim, Aphex Twin and The Prodigy gave the UK its mainstream infatuation with the TB-303, Japan – the birthplace of the machine – would push it to its limits in a different direction and arguably use it in the most diverse of ways. The track’s distinctive, psychedelic electronic sound came from the Roland TB-303, a bass synthesiser that would go on to be used by many artists within the Chicago scene before its sound was imported to the UK, leading to the birth of rave culture as we know it. Acid house took its name from “ Acid Tracks”, a 12-minute dance track released by the Chicago group Phuture in 1987. Towards the end of the era, however, the combination of the new drug ecstasy and the new dance music form of acid house ushered in a period of free-spirited hedonism.
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