I absolutely love the Samurai Champloo albums.

The thing is, I absolutely loathe hip-hop beats when are there people signing to them. It completely ruins the song and its sound for me when there is an accompanying or lead voice(s).

I think that's why the Samurai Champloo albums were liked so much by me - they didn't have accompanying or lead vocals, abeit Battlecry and the end credits, and they had some interesting elements of other styles that crept in there nicely, namely down-tempo broken ambient beats and the like.

In some ways, he reminds of a hip-hop beats and more ambient version of Amon Tobin, simply because of how he uses samples and repeating rythms to create a soundscape fitting to the mood.

So, yes, I do like him.