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Music news
Those who've been paying attention may remember I've been looking for some music in the same genre as the Powerpuff Girls soundtrack for a while now. I was thus pleased to see James L Venable - composer for that noble production, as well as its bastard cousin Samurai Jack - has released an original album. Though I seriously love his PPG soundtrack, most of the album samples provided on his site leave me a little cold... it could be that it's the visual associations that make me love the PPG theme so, but I think it's more that he's composing for an album rather than a soundtrack, so is aiming for something more drawn-out and slow-paced. Apart from Party Boy and Jack In The Club, the latter of which I suspect is from that Samurai Jack episode where he's ... in a club. (Seriously.) Now that I think of it, Move the Top is largely from another SJ episode - the one with the cross-dressing Aku and the desert travel montage.
According to the Amazon page those are the only eight tracks on the album, though he's also slipped a couple of his PPG/SJ demos in there. I don't think I'll be buying it, it's nice but not quite snappy enough - there's about a 50% hit rate in those minute-long samples but I don't think it'll pan out well to a whole album. Maybe I'll nab bits of it illegally and see if the full tracks are any improvement.
According to the Amazon page those are the only eight tracks on the album, though he's also slipped a couple of his PPG/SJ demos in there. I don't think I'll be buying it, it's nice but not quite snappy enough - there's about a 50% hit rate in those minute-long samples but I don't think it'll pan out well to a whole album. Maybe I'll nab bits of it illegally and see if the full tracks are any improvement.