Most of us think of movies such as "Grease" and "City of Angels" when we think about soundtracks but there is a genre of soundtracks that is quickly gaining popularity here in the states. Over the past twenty years, Anime Soundtracks from video games, TV shows and movies are rapidly catching on. There have been several English versions of Japanese music being recorded for release over the last decade.

One of the more popular anime soundtrack composers for video games is a man named Nobuo Uematsu from Japan. This composer has created songs for several anime videogames, most notably the Final Fantasy series. Final Fantasy is a series of twelve games and more games in this series are due to be released. Oddly enough, the collection of songs from this game series has prompted other soundtracks to emerge as well.

After creating music for videogames for close to two decades, Nobuo Uematsu began a concert series in 2000. Uematsu brought his anime soundtrack series to the United States in 2004. He was playing music designed for videogames with the Chicago Pops Orchestra to rave reviews and sold out venues. His type of music incorporates orchestra, opera and pop songs. Uematsu even utilized members of the group Korn to do a hard rock-style song for one of the later games.

Anime movie soundtracks have been a must have for the anime addict. Shows like "Ghost in the Shell" and "Akiria" have been around for years. Back in the day of these movies a fan of the music had to get the music from Japan. The United States really had not opened its doors to these types of soundtracks until the 90s.

The recent explosion of anime cartoons have opened the door for more accessibility to the anime soundtrack in that their growing popularity gave rise to a higher demand for the music that goes along with the shows. It is not unusual to find the soundtracks to such shows as "Samurai Champloo" and "Inuyasha" in your local record store or online.

By 1998 the American Rhino put out an anime soundtrack as a compilation album called "The Best of Anime". It included anime shows like Speed Racer, Gigantor, Sailor Moon and Astroboy. The growing popularity of the anime soundtrack has paved way to the J-Pop and J-Rock craze.

The J-Pop and J-Rock productions are performed by Japanese singers performing songs in their native tongue but they throw in a few English phrases throughout the course of the song. There is a lot of beautiful music coming from across the ocean that is worth listening to.


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