Seatbelts
Formed in Tokyo, Japan in 1998, Seatbelts is a band led by Yoko Kanno, a composer and keyboardist best known for her work on soundtracks for anime films, video games, television series, adverts, and live-action motion pictures. She began her career by composing the soundtrack to the 1986 video game Nobunaga’s Ambition. Yoko Kanno continued to compose and perform music for soundtracks, but when presented with scoring the anime series Cowboy Bebop in 1998, she brought together a group of musicians to help record the music. Naming the band Seatbelts, they performed a myriad of styles including jazz, rock, blues, funk, electronic, and J-pop. Seatbelts released three albums in 1998 – Cowboy Bebop, Cowboy Bebop Vitaminless, and Cowboy Bebop No Disc – followed by Cowboy Bebop Blue (1999), Ask DNA (2001) and Future Blues (2001), which featured “No Reply”. There was also a series of remix compilations, a boxed set, and a collection called Cowboy Bebop Tank! THE! BEST! (2004). While Yoko Kanno continued her career, the Seatbelts project remained dormant until they re-appeared during the COVID-19 pandemic in April 2020. They re-recorded “The Real Folk Blues”, the ending theme of Cowboy Bebop, to raise funds for COVID-19 relief.
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Discography
7 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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COWBOY BEBOP (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Originele soundtracks - Released by SUNRISE Music Label on 21 mei 1998
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
COWBOY BEBOP - Knockin' on Heaven's Door (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack - Future Blues)
Originele soundtracks - Released by SUNRISE Music Label on 29 aug. 2001
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
COWBOY BEBOP Tank! the! Best!
Originele soundtracks - Released by SUNRISE Music Label on 22 dec. 2004
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
COWBOY BEBOP (Soundtrack from the Netflix Series)
Originele soundtracks - Released by SUNRISE Music Label on 19 nov. 2021
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
COWBOY BEBOP Knockin' on Heaven's Door Ask DNA
Originele soundtracks - Released by SUNRISE Music Label on 25 jul. 2001
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Tank! (from the Netflix Series, Cowboy Bebop) (Steve Aoki Remixes)
Electronic - Released by Netflix Music on 10 dec. 2021
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
COWBOY BEBOP Soundtrack From The Netflix Series
Anime - Released by SUNRISE Music Label on 16 sep. 2022
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo