For the most part, the Samurai Champloo soundtrack plays like the instrumental cuts hip hop artists sometimes release alongside EPs - it's a collection of beats in want of a rapper. They're great beats, and with vocals to complement them they would make great songs, but they are too repetitive to stand alone. Hopefully some aspiring rapper will make use of these, or a grey-album style mix will find its way onto the internet, but the album itself is not recommendable.(That said, the music works very well in Samurai Champloo, and is one of the reasons the show is worth seeing).