Music Industrial Wastes: P-Model or Die

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Music Industrial Wastes: P-Model or Die
P-MODEL OR DIE.gif
Studio album by
P-Model
ReleasedSeptember 1, 1999 (1999-09-01)
Recorded1999
Studio
Various
    • Studio Wireself, Ibaraki
    • Soyuz DataFact, Tokyo
    • Cooshin-An, Osaka
Genre
Length36:18
Label Chaos Union, Teslakite, Magnet
Producer P-Model
P-Model chronology
Electronic Tragedy/〜ENOLA
(1997)		Music Industrial Wastes: P-Model or Die
(1999)

Music Industrial Wastes: P-Model or Die, stylized as Music Industrial Wastes〜P-MODEL OR DIE (音楽産業廃棄物〜P-MODEL OR DIE, Ongaku Sangyō Haikibutsu〜P-MODEL OR DIE), is the twelfth studio album by P-Model, the third by its "revised" lineup and the final one for the band overall.

Contents

Background

In 1999, feeling that technology had advanced enough and frustrated at major labels' reticence to adopt it, P-Model terminated their exclusive contract with Nippon Columbia and started the Music Industrial Wastes: P-Model or Die project. Through it, the band would completely redevelop their distribution methods, starting up the online MP3 store P-Plant with the assistance of the Nikkei Business Publications magazine netn@vi as their primary commercial channel; to service those who don't have computers, the independent label Magnet Records handled CD releases, with a delay from the site sale. [1] They would also organize multiple online events for more direct interaction with their listeners.

As 1999 was also the 20th anniversary of the band's foundation, many activities were organized to commemorate its history, among them the rerecording of songs from the first four P-Model albums in the style of their accompanying live shows as the Virtual Live series of albums [2] and the release of a book chronicling the group's multiple aspects.

The concept of the album Music Industrial Wastes: P-Model or Die is summed up on its first track, inspired by the frustration the P-Plant webmaster was having with the difficulties of copyright in the information age, "Logic Airforce": P-Model is locked on a battle of logic with the music industry. As an extension of the concept of Fune, the long voyage started on that album ends on a post-war battlefield, where people are rebuilding a new world, where all are invited to acceptance, things that would be called escapism and madness in the real world are celebrated, and evil spirits can show their faces. [3] However, to continue living inside the real world to some extent, people cast aside their "real names", instead living as "dust humanoids", or "DUSToids". [3]

Composition

A theme present in the album is a proper revisiting of the core P-Model concept. To explore that, Kenji Konishi used the drum spatial processing from Perspective and whole tones, giving most of his songs a "concrete garage-like" sound and some periodic sampling of snare drums. [3] Further playing with the "retrieving industrial wastes" concept, he also recorded about 3 hours of sampling from construction sites and similar locations. [3]

The song that most closely realizes the "replay" concept, "Heaven 2000", is a combination of two songs: "Heaven", from Perspective, and 4-D's stand-alone single "After Dinner Party". [3] Both "Heaven" and "After Dinner Party" were part of both bands' regular repertoire in the '80s. While originally entirely unrelated, both songs can be read as complementary to each other, and that was the motivation behind the making of "Heaven 2000". [3]

Recording and production

With the advances in technology, members sent each other demos as MP3 files, which are of a higher quality than RealAudio ones, which meant that each member could do their entire workload without meeting face-to-face. [4] [5] Continuing that trend, P-Model experimented with "Remote Mixdown": backups of each member's hard disk recorder were sent to Hirasawa's Studio Wireself, were Masanori Chinzei engineered them, periodically sending MP3s to each member's computer. They would then communicate feedback and instructions to him through an exclusive chat system, which also featured webcam snapshots of Chinzei at work, refreshing once every 3 minutes. [4] The whole process could be seen by the public, who had their own chat and could listen to low-rate MP3s, all happening in real time. [4]

Because MP3 downloads were being considered as the primary method of distribution, P-Model made sure to compress the songs to about 3 to 4 MB, with 5 MB being the maximum; they also deliberately went for "festive" numbers to celebrate the new medium. [3]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Logic Airforce" (論理空軍Ronri Kūgun) Susumu Hirasawa 3:20
2."Lauretian" (ローレシアRōreshia)Kenji Konishi3:49
3."Recovery Ship" (回収船Kaishū Sen)Hirasawa4:16
4."Moon Plant-II"Hirasawa3:55
5."Heaven 2000"Konishi3:18
6."Ancient Sounds"Konishi3:20
7."Rehash"Konishi4:37
8."Waste Cabaret"Hirasawa3:11
9."Mind Scape"Konishi4:12
10."DUSToid" (DUSToidよ歩行は快適か?DUSToid yo Hokō wa Kaiteki ka?, Oh DUSToid, is Your Walk Comfortable?)Hirasawa3:40

Personnel

Release history

DateLabel(s)FormatCatalogNotes
September 1, 1999Chaos Union, Teslakite MP3 PP-00001All songs are available for download individually (cat. nos. PP-00010 – 19).
September 22, 1999 Magnet Records, TeslakiteCDMAGL-5002Packaged on a smart tray jewel case, with a small booklet and a strip of magnetic tape with project logo, TESLAKITE logo and catalogue number printed on it.
May 10, 2002
July 4, 2014		Chaos Union, TeslakiteCHTE-0014Remastered by Hirasawa. Part of Disc 10 of the Ashu-on [Sound Subspecies] in the solar system box set, alongside Virtual Live-1 and "Moon Plant-I". Re-released with new packaging by Kiyoshi Inagaki.

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