Ghost in the Shell Soundtrack Making of Cyborg

[Shadowheadofthenight]

best movie, soundtrack also best T.v show and dont 4get VIdeo games.

[sporessss]

This soundtrack reminds me so much of Les Mystere des Voix Bulgares. If you like these vocals, you should definitely check it out...

[DOmini0n]

@sporessss The soundtrack was originally supposed to feature Bulgarian Folk Singers :)

[olympiada06]

Great discussion! Glad to see other cyborg appreciators on YouTube 😊

[LordOfTec]

brilliant movie and excellent music... now i have to find the soundtrack where this track can be listened from KENJI KAWAI(?) or Ute I(?) - Chant 1 - "Making Of Cyborg" can be found...

[garouHH]

@LordOfTec Do you happen to have an idea how several slow-acting fibers that can shorten by 5% each can be arranged into a pack that's fast-acting and shortening by at least 15%? I need it for my tinkering with cyborgs.

[dalektaliban]

we only have 17 years to invent cyborgs and think tanks

[KazaVAN]

@, dalektaliban Off to work then

[malevolenceXXXensues]

@dalektaliban cyborgs do exist in primitive form today

[momolovesdrawing]

really awesome and at the same time very disturbing...

[dandanthepumpkinman]

I prefer this track to the GitS2 Innocence theme, but Innocence is the better film plot wise, although it owes a lot to Blade Runner and doesn't have Kusanagi in as a primary character. Sometimes japanese anime films have the tendency to try and be too "deep" and prolific, and I think the first GitS suffers a little from this, whilst the second doesn't so much.

[tommaspawn]

If you dont get shivers listening to this song theres something wrong with you....maybe you should stop head banging for a sec and enjoy music that gives more then it takes...

[JeffreyGoddin]

I want people to love GitS, but most of the responses here are from action-oriented wankers that I'd love to shoot in the head. This track is absolutely perfect GitS, reflective, contemplative, and at the same time driving and disturbing. I love this soundtrack, and this is the best track on it. Piss off you shallow wannabes.

[Nobodyknowsme021]

this song is okay 

[Tchib0]

Nature finds a way, the unlikely happens as the norm and we can't comprehend the process and consider it impossible. From the primordial soup of mud and chemicals, all things carbon based were created. From the digital soup of recorded thoughts and ideas, all things silicon will bloom. Something is going to happen, something wonderful!

[GrahamJyc1]

@Tchib0 I certainly hope so. As long as mankind doesn't misuse its creations then I think technology has a very bright future :)

[Truechuser]

@Tchib0 Or awful...

[Zilbaouf]

Zulu !

[tommaspawn]

That's a tear to the eye

[Extaticus]

People love machines in 2029 A.D...

... And I love this tune in 2011. :D

[tolikechicken]

The only bad thing about cyberization would be reproduction. If humans eventually all cyberize without a way to reproduce themselves then humans are fucked, unless humans trandenscend and become machines, and then reproduce themselves. When we unlock the brain and are able to reproduce it humans will become gods, able to create new beings without reproduction. Its a terifyingly awsome thought.

[Iuphome100]

@tolikechicken i have to agree with your accusation on this.

[WBkanal]

Kocham ten utwór :D

[pofkeltlt]

this always make me shiver

[MrsSally777]

love this forever *x*

[TETTSUUO]

NEXT TO AKIRA THIS IS PROBABLY THE BEST I'VE EVER SEEN.....IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ACTION OR VIOLENCE OR ANYTHING RIDICULOUS LIKE THAT...IT ALL COMES DOWN TO STORY...IT JUST GOES VERY DEEP....THE CONCEPT AND EXECUTION R FLAWLESS....JUST LIKE AKIRA,IT'S ALL ABOUT WHERE WE R AS A SPECIES,WHERE WE CAME FROM,AND WHERE WE R HEADED...NOT TO MENTION THE FACT THAT IT TOUCHES ON DEEP PHILISOPHICAL ISSUES THAT R NOT EASILY DECIPHERED...

[KOTYAR0]

Must say - 2000s, modern Masamune's manga rule too

And in series, there are too some great moments, just search "A robot's theory on god"

[ekst0r]

Sounds-like a bulgarian folk music 0o

[Nostarielable]

@ekst0r It is, it's apparently a Bulgarian wedding song with Japanese lyrics. According to wikipedia.

[THEWIKANMAN]

S4LEM brought me here

[lordoid]

Goosebumps...This film blew me away and was the second Anime I saw back in the mid 90's in Europe. It still is in the back of my mind when I'm creating tracks or visuals. I think the Manga is Masamune Shirows masterpiece and Mamoru Oshii did an awesome work transferring it into a movie. I bow down to these masters.

[Johnlindsey289]

Who else thinks Felina Feral from Swat kats looks like a catgirl version of Kusanagi if either Professor Achilles Milo and Dr. Emil Dorain from Batman The Animated Series injected Motoko with a formula to make her a catgirl yet Motoko refrains her hair, what do you get? Felina Feral.

[mrhunam]

When the heavy bass kicks in at 2:13... perfect.

[kostolomac222]

my favourite childhood cartoon, didnt watch it for like 12 years or more

[Meshuggah5]

@kostolomac222 ma prejebena je anima ..a soundtrak je EPIC ..

[j0r3l07]

Beatiful.

[muspri]

@j0r3l07 lol @ beatiful



[j0r3l07]

@muspri lol sorry im not THAT good at english

[icedmetal81]

I fucking love cyberpunk.

[XxSuRrEaLiStSxX]

Anyone know what the lyrics translate to in English?

[aporigine]

On the CD the reprise of track 1, "Making of a Cyborg" (which is also the title credits music) is track 5, "Ghost City". That's the one where the heroine looks at the city in all its decadent slummy glory. I found it here on the 'tube. Fwiw, Nightstalker is track 7 on the CD. cheers apo

CD is Japanese SM Records GA-044; thx eBay!

[snowblind1985]

@aporigine thanks

[maxabeles]

anyone answer if i can find the soundtrack during the city shot halfway through the movie? It has this track but then switches to another version of floating museum thats really sick, then back to this...knaw mean?

[maxabeles]

@AquariaSpirit its chant 2

[artisaucy]

Beauty..this has it.

[blueoblivionx]

Damn I love this song

[Dragon863368]

Ghost in the Shell is a stand alone, no pun intended. Rating it among other movies, anime or otherwise, is like comparing Leonardo DeVinci with a tire.

[killasin303]

i saw this movie when i was about 15...i couldnt understand it all at that age,i gtta make it a priority to watch it again and reallt try to understand the movie,what i did understand was that with all the info the world wide web had it sumhow sparked sum sort of A.I on its own...a ghost as the movie wud put it...my beleifs...HIGHLY POSSIBLE...in all the data that is the information super highway that is internet something must be there that sez live....idk maybe this weed is really good lol

[Johnlindsey289]

@killasin303

Did you watched Akira as well?

[1GREECE1AKHF]

We become machine dependent day by day...and this was already understood by Shirow Masamune in '89! Incredible!

[Akuma31er]

@1GREECE1AKHF

they already make robot arms and legs for humans and also hearts and inside organs ;)

[1GREECE1AKHF]

@Akuma31er exactly my point...for being aware of robot technology being evolutioned as it is today and the influence that internet today has in our lives 22 years before to me is equal to socially genious! And btw thanks a lot for uploading this great song!

[Barendsen2]

@Akuma31er I can't wait to Ghost Hack people. :)

[henritje19]

@Akuma31er the correct term is internal organs and yes maybe there is going to be a day when technology from GITS will be commonplace

[Deadlyman94]

@Akuma31er they are working on lungs currently maybe 8 to 10 years we will have cybernetic lungs :D

[qu7aker]

@Deadlyman94 Thats to long dude. Lol im about to go and get my ass cryo frozen so they make me a full cyber suit with my human brain still intact inside like the majors.

[rysn09]

@qu7aker cryo freezing doesn't work with human organism, didn't you know? I mean you can try it, but you will die.

[qu7aker]

@rysn09 you know what i mean. Like the whole cryo stasis crap you see in movies. im sure theyll figure out how to do it in the near future.

[rysn09]

@qu7aker Whatever "near future" means, 500 years?^^ Therefor it will take a whole new definition of everything we know by now, I guess

[qu7aker]

@rysn09 look at the past 50 years. thats a hell of a leap in terms of technology. and it will only get faster and faster.

[rysn09]

@qu7aker I know but developing successful cryon freezing may be as hard as finding something against cancer or AIDS, whatever.. :|

[qu7aker]

@rysn09 true. but you may never know what the future may have planned. i just hope its before i die/get old lol

[yfalyfal]

@qu7aker That's kinda scary is you think about it, What if it goes too fast and something incredibly wrong happens?

[qu7aker]

@yfalyfal already has happened. People are getting lazy and too dependent on technology to run there lives.

[oOJINxOo1]

@yfalyfal bring on the singularity ;3

[TETTSUUO]

@yfalyfal TOO LATE

[chromosome24]

@qu7aker by that time they'ld probably just copy your neural network into a massively paralleled computer processing architecture. no need for keeping your brain, its the information in it that's important. but yeah, i think everyone who dies before this technology is available should have their brains put under cryo.

[qu7aker]

@chromosome24 yup :)

[MrJohnny56789]

@qu7aker incorrect, the ghost is in all shelss. she has a cyber brain just like the rest. you have to, because the g-force exertd from the full range of motion and accel/decel that a cyber body can handle will crush a human brain inside the skull. Thats what a concussion is, and concussions happen to football players getting hit by someone moving 15 mph and falling 6 feet to the ground.

Think about it.

[qu7aker]

@MrJohnny56789 When the major was first augmented the only organic parts left from her human body were the brain and her spine. My best guess is that theres something protecting her brain from g-force damage. her organic brain does get damaged and becomes usless at the end of the first movie. Which batou uses the memory chip inside to act as a substitue brain till she gets a new body.

[MrJohnny56789]

@qu7aker yes, there are "natural brain parts" still in the machine. If we watch the scene where its being put together you'll see the openings for grey matter to be put in. This grey matter is the same for all "Cyborgs", if you ever watch the other cyborgs heads getting blown up, you'll always see brain matter. Its not that this brain matter is uniqely hers, or even that it matters. If she lost it she's still "her" to speak, since they virtualize your consciousness

[MrJohnny56789]

@MrJohnny56789 and thats where the "ghost" comes in. It's the irrational part of yourself thats still there from the downloading. The brain matter has little to do with this. We see that her personality cahnged with the merging, not with the loss of the grey matter. As far as I can tell, it wasn't her PFC (prefrontal cortex) that was retained but other little inconsequential chunks, and as such these chunks could be replaced. It'd be a weakness in the system to leave

[MrJohnny56789]

@qu7aker grey matter so volitale as the PFC inside it, as damage to that would make them behave erratically. SO obviously, the only brain matter left was other parts that simply combine with the machine brain to have some extra flexibility in thinking and processing, since brains can change to become better at a task. Think of it has a highly specialized piece of equipment that can make itself better. I doubt it's her personality that was damaged, and the brain parts should be replaceab

[Zinxhetan1986]

@qu7aker How about the chinese assassin's hideout shotgun, from Stand Alone Complex? I'd sign up in a heartbeat.

[qu7aker]

@Zinxhetan1986 word

[XxSuRrEaLiStSxX]

@Akuma31er In fact some kid wrote to an auto company and recieved one for free, he can now tie his shoes and everything, though a little stiff, we're in the early stages of a really fast expanding industry, not to mention the wonders it could do when coupled with stem cell research, veterans have been operated on with them and have re-grown entire thighs and stuff blown off by a mine.

[Briselance]

@XxSuRrEaLiStSxX

"veterans have been operated on with them and have re-grown entire thighs and stuff blown off by a mine."

Wow !! Where did you read this ?! 'cause that thing means ... pretty much like some kind of second life, for the militaries members and the civvies who lose limbs in wars.

It sounds so surreal.

[XxSuRrEaLiStSxX]

@Briselance It was on 60 minutes

[OldEvilEye1280]

@Akuma31er serz? artifical hearts? shit i belive that if all the religious mumbo jumbo doesnt prove to be true, we may very well see a future much like Ghost in the Shell

[tehbasil]

@Akuma31er  i always wondered what the cost of those things are, since i dont see alot of them around

[qslfnqfnhqeo]

@tehbasil $100k~$300k for an artificial heart

[kilmindaro3]

@Akuma31er

I fucking love science.

[nomenhior]

@Akuma31er and dont forget the most important... brains.

[AppropriationIsMe]

@1GREECE1AKHF Not really, 1989 isn't exactly deep history. If this was made in the 1960s or 70s it would be incredible. Still a good film though. 

[1GREECE1AKHF]

@AppropriationIsMe it surely was not like it today...I mean could you back then carry the net services with you? No...but who does not say if it won't be possible in another 20 years to not need even a cellphone or a netbook for that reason...Not even mobile phones(as it comes to communication only) were that advanced back then...

[AppropriationIsMe]

@1GREECE1AKHF Well yes, I just mean sci-fi has been covering trans-humanism, androids, storing a personality on electronic devices for decades. Ghost in the Shell borrowed from the past and built on it, as a lot of fiction does.

[1GREECE1AKHF]

@AppropriationIsMe I did not see that reply... it did not appear as a linked message... O.o ... True enough... but still it is all about what persepective every sci-fi or even art has... For some it is evolution for some revolution and for some a threat like GitS

[quesondriac]

@1GREECE1AKHF A built in cell phone for humans. I wonder what it will look like. Consider this, when Jules Verne wrote from the Earth to the Moon, the technology to get to the moon was a cannon. Which was existing technology. When we got there in the next century, it was via rockets. So when an internal cell phone arrives later in this century, the people of today probably would not recognize it.

[1GREECE1AKHF]

@quesondriac that is evolution(technological) I guess...And by commenting that much about all those things (me,Akuma31er,AppropriationIsM­e and you quesondriac) means that the movie has already fullfillled its purpose and has passed the message it wanted to.

[killasin303]

@1GREECE1AKHF and wat message was that?

[1GREECE1AKHF]

@killasin303 that we even in the least in our everyday lives get dependent by the machines for no reason at some point... We always get "blind" by the flashy things without trying to think what effect will have in the future or even the present... I am sorry if I can not make it clear but that is the message that it passed to me... it is diffirent for every viewer. It depends from his own perspective of the world, society and human interraction.

[killasin303]

@1GREECE1AKHF thanks 4 replying bro...and interesting prespective

[1GREECE1AKHF]

@killasin303 Why wouldn't I reply since you asked me? ;)

[Silverswordfish]

@1GREECE1AKHF I've just come back from a conference where new software which does my job as well as any human can was demonstrated.

[ShinjukuHH]

@1GREECE1AKHF At some time - even now in some experiments- humans will merge in part with computers/machines.

Blind people now are getting electronic sensors inserted behind the retina to be able to 'see' again.

Check out the Deux-Ex: Human Revolution Videos.

Give technology some 20-30 years and things will HAVE changed.

[paniaguapani]

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[Bankaiuser233]

and i got this song on the first try

[michaderstricha]

fickts euch alle es woamen

[supahslime]

Akira is the better movie of the two, just sayin'

[SydBarrett7]

@supahslime It could have been if it had been two parts or much longer. Manga wise yes big time!

[LimitNine]

I get goosebumps every time.

[aminoacid1648856]

So.... does that mean her boobs are fake?

[drakocarrion]

@aminoacid1648856 yes. & she weighs over 300 pounds

[aminoacid1648856]

@drakocarrion Wow, I don't know what to say XD

[drakocarrion]

@aminoacid1648856 whatever you do make sure it's not "you can go on top" ;)

[Platysoma]

does this song remind anyone else of Red aler 3?

[Svartdoden]

One of the best movies of all times, in deed... gits 2 is great too, ive seen them both several times... but i dont know why i dont feel any interest on watching the series.

great song!

[BCPvideo]

@Svartdoden

The series is really good, but it's not nearly as meta as the movie, way more crime/conspiracy stuff.

[mrmarkmottershead]

@Svartdoden Probably because mamoru oshii is God.

[d0gg0d]

Just epic!

[260493naruto]

7 guys love Naruto. lulz

[skipsch]

@260493naruto fuk shonen jump

[theallseeingoracle]

This movie and Akira are my all time favorite animes.

[kannohiroshi177]

the song is sung in ancient japanese language. i am a native japanese but even i can understand one third of the whole lyrics...

[jaybiggz9]

Anime at its best. i wish there were more out like this one.

[alesiswisses]

the best animation

the best song

the best history

the best mamasita xD

[bubbygamble]

She's bad ass!!!!! ^_^

[pheenix42]

"I don't believe it....thermoptic camoflauge!"

--Major then disappears--

[giangra92]

Not everything comes from Asia I like. But this is really a good music. Maybe we should learn something from them, in Europe.

[AkaTako88]

This song is the audio-based epitome of profoundness. Amazing.

[RiceMan9315]

I'm pretty sure nothing comes close in the sheer greatness of this movie. It's just so... believable, yet unrealistic.

It's... perfection.

[thealestar]

Does anybody have a translation for this song? I've always wondered what they were singing about....

[sinmantky]

@thealestar if i remember correctly, its an archaic japanese song, sung in old japanese. Like a Shakrespear's sonnet

[Goutetsu13]

@thealestar

"When you are dancing, a beautiful lady becomes drunken.

When you are dancing, a shining moon rings.

A god descends for a wedding

And dawn approaches while the night bird sings.

God bless you. God bless you.

God bless you. God bless you."

All you had to do was search on google.

[joker9494949494]

Shirow Masamune. you are a god at wrt=iting and drawing alike. thank you, if you ever read this, knwo that we apprieciate everything you've done for manga and anime. :)

[rutabagasteu]

The music for this Anime ranks with the music from the movie 'Forbidden Planet'.

Both stretched the barriers of sf and went beyond them, setting new rules and goals for wonderful movies.

[InfinityWard312]

@rutabagasteu What ost are you talking about for Forbidden Planet?

[rutabagasteu]

@InfinityWard312 About the movie itself.

Both FP and GitS are landmarks in sf movies.

[InfinityWard312]

@rutabagasteu Name of the song for Forbidden Planet???????????

[rutabagasteu]

@InfinityWard312 The use of a therimin to set the 'way out there' mood.

[LaughingMan7171]

I usually find it hard to listen to music like this with other people, they seem to ruin its nostalgic moments

[quake63]

After reading the "The Singularity is near" and then rewatching this 1995 anime again really freaks me out. The parallels in predictions of the upcoming future sure is freaky. Best anime movie of all time, no anime even comes close. ( IMO =) )

[Truechuser]

@quake63

True, the first time I saw this anime was sci-fi only, when I see it nowadays its "OMG THATS THE FUTURE D: "

[sd61000]

Amazing track from a true science fiction masterpiece. Such a shame that the remastered versions of the film for western markets altered the soundtrack to supposedly be more in line with conventional tastes.

[GforGIVI]

Isn't that Kenji Kawai? I've heard this song long before i started to watch anime.

But now I know what title to watch next.

Great song, just great.

[JNPollard]

@GforGIVI yea its him found out about this song through Avalon which he also does the music for

[SOOLTV]

Damn this creepy great song and awesome movie are now echoing in my ears like crazy again. It took me weeks to get it out of my head. It's a masterpiece. Period. no buts about it. Don't argue or fight, you'll lose.

[Not2Be0utDone]

Thank you for the upload!

[unfathomablewiz]

Matrix pales in comparison to this awesome piece of work !

[dennisama]

One day, i'll draw anime propperly and make my own series =D=D.

GitS sure is one of my biggest inspiration =D.

[momokuri13]

666 likers and 6 dislikers? :D

[LordBazaar]

is this by kenji kawai?

[Shadowheadofthenight]

the best Ghost in the Shell was the original, now im not saying the other Ghost in the Shell is not good. it dose have its good things but i love the original better. like the original Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam.

[EveOfShadow]

I wonder if they'll use this friggen awesome song in the remake.

[Johnlindsey289]

@EveOfShadow

Already been remade, it was called The Matrix

[uglybuckling]

This sample is heavily featured in Deadmau5's "Intelstat." If you're a fan of this song, that one is worth checking out, as it is essentially this with a beat.

[FuzzyThoughts]

Frickin' Sweet is what this is...I love this version of Ghost in the Shell, and ONLY this version ;)

[IncognitoGlory]

Such a powerful song indeed, I haven't seen the anime though..I wounder how does it compare to the anime Berserk?

[Hyde087]

@IncognitoGlory It's on a whole diferent league, this movie is a must see.

[roms059]

#1 akira (for me the best forever)

#2 GITS

[hyuthestampede]

@roms059 me too! :D

[screammember]

awesome kalkbrenner version check!

[thealestar]

I can't find this song anywhere to purchace.... I want it...

[KuroyukiProductions]

I love the movies.

[vottscernon]

EVAR!

[occultologist]

the song sounds like some kind of ceremonial offering to the Gods. Their praying the Gods will deliver them from whatever mess their in.

or an introduction to a strange and mystical land, filled with dangers and treasures.

[h4ku89]

@occultologist Just for you, here's a translation of the song:

When you are dancing, a beautiful lady becomes drunken.

When you are dancing, a shining moon rings.

A god descends for a wedding

And dawn approaches while the night bird sings.

God bless you. God bless you.

God bless you. God bless you.

[occultologist]

@h4ku89 hmmm, so i wasn't too far off.

thanks for sharing.

beautiful song by the way.

it must be a modern rendition of a very old song.

[dangzard]

I'm scared...

[ALTUL1986]

desimal - ghostrain, great song with samples from this song :>

[Talkasyousee]

Beautiful

[LINKchris87]

best anime ever