P-Model

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P-Model
Also known as
  • Ikari
  • Heaven
  • Karkador
  • The Mortal World's Paradise Kameari Eternal One Pattern Band
  • Kameari Towers
Origin Kameari  [ ja ], Katsushika, Tokyo, Japan
Genres
Years active1 January 1979 – 20 December 2000
Labels
Members Susumu Hirasawa

P-Model (also typeset as P-MODEL and P. Model) was a Japanese electronic rock band started in 1979 by members of the defunct progressive rock band Mandrake. The band has experienced many lineup revisions over the years but frontman Susumu Hirasawa was always at the helm of operations. P-Model officially disbanded in 2000, although many of its members continue to release solo albums and collaborate with each other on different projects.

Contents

Hirasawa has since released work under the name "Kaku P-Model" (核P-Model, lit.'nucleus of P-Model'), effectively a solo revival of the band.

Members

Former members

Timeline

P-Model

Discography

Studio albums

TitleRelease details
In A Model Room
  • Released: 25 August 1979
  • Label: Warner-Pioneer
  • Formats: LP, CS
Landsale
  • Released: 24 April 1980
  • Label: Warner-Pioneer
  • Formats: LP, CS
Potpourri
  • Released: 25 April 1981
  • Label: Warner-Pioneer
  • Formats: LP, CS
Perspective
  • Released: 1 March 1982
  • Label: Tokuma Japan Corporation, Japan Record
  • Formats: LP
Unauthorized Music Collection vol.1 (不許可曲集 vol.1, Fu Kyoka Kyoku Shū vol.1)
  • Released: 25 March 1983
  • Label: Model House
  • Formats: CS
Another Game
  • Released: 25 February 1984
  • Label: Tokuma Japan Corporation, Japan Record
  • Formats: LP
Scuba
Karkador
  • Released: 25 December 1985
  • Label: Alfa Records, EDGE Records
  • Formats: LP
One Pattern
  • Released: 25 June 1986
    25 July 1986 (CD)
  • Label: Alfa Records, EDGE Records
  • Formats: LP, CD
P-Model
  • Released: 26 February 1992
  • Label: Polydor K.K.
  • Formats: CD
big body
  • Released: 25 March 1993
  • Label: Polydor K.K.
  • Formats: CD
Fune (, Ship)
  • Released: 9 December 1995
  • Label: Nippon Columbia, Teslakite
  • Formats: CD
Electronic Tragedy/〜Enola (電子悲劇/〜Enola, Denshi Higeki/〜Enola)
  • Released: 29 November 1997
  • Label: Nippon Columbia, Teslakite
  • Formats: enhanced CD
Music Industrial Wastes〜P-Model or Die (音楽産業廃棄物〜P-Model or Die, Ongaku Sangyō Haiki Butsu〜P-Model or Die)
  • Released: 1 September 1999 (MP3)
    22 September 1999 (CD)
  • Label: Chaos Union, Teslakite(MP3)
    Magnet Records, Teslakite(CD)
  • Formats: MP3, CD

Live and Remix-Remake albums

TitleRelease details
Perspective II
  • Released: 1 May 1982
  • Label: Tokuma Japan Corporation, Japan Record
  • Formats: CS
    CD (Reissues)
Unauthorized Music Collection (不許可曲集, Fu Kyoka Kyoku Shū)
  • Released: 1988
  • Label: Model House
  • Formats: CS
SCUBA (1989 CD re-issue)
Pause
  • Released: 25 May 1994
  • Label: DIW, SYUN
  • Formats: CD
The Way of Live (Live の方法, Live no Hōhō)
  • Released: 23 July 1994
  • Label: DIW, SYUN
  • Formats: CD
Corrective Errors〜re-mix of Fune (Corrective Errors〜re-mix of 舟)
  • Released: 30 September 1995
  • Label: DIW, SYUN
  • Formats: CD
Scuba Recycle
  • Released: 30 November 1995
  • Label: DIW, SYUN
  • Formats: CD
Unauthorized Music Collection from 1983 (不許可曲集 from 1983, Fu Kyoka Kyoku Shū from 1983)
  • Released: 21 October 1998
  • Label: Green Nerve
  • Formats: CD
Virtual Live-1 [P-Model Live at Roppongi S-Ken Studio 1979]
  • Released: 6 July 1999 (MP3)
    25 August 1999 (CD)
  • Label: Chaos Union, Teslakite (MP3)
    Magnet Records, Teslakite (CD)
  • Formats: MP3
    CD
Virtual Live-2 [P-Model Live at Shibuya Nylon 100% 1980]
  • Released: 25 October 1999 (MP3)
    25 November 1999 (CD)
  • Label: Chaos Union, Teslakite (MP3)
    Magnet Records, Teslakite (CD)
  • Formats: MP3
    CD
Virtual Live-3 [P-Model Live at Kyodai Seibu Kodo 1982]
  • Released: 25 November 1999 (MP3)
    15 December 1999 (CD)
  • Label: Chaos Union, Teslakite (MP3)
    Magnet Records, Tslakite (CD)
  • Formats: MP3
    CD

Compilations

Singles

Other releases

Videography

Music Videos

All videos from the Great Brain to Harm Harmonizer were directed by Yuichi "You1" Hirasawa (Susumu's brother). "Fu-Ru-He-He-He", "2D or Not 2D" and "Grid" were included in "Bitmap 1979–1992"; "Monotone Grid" was included in "Phton-3"; "http" was included in "Rocket Shoot"; "Logic Airforce" was included in "Live Video Music Industrial Wastes〜P-Model or Die".

Legacy

P-Model, as well Susumu Hirasawa through his solo career, have been influential both on musicians, as well as on artists that work on other mediums, with a reputation for having many fans in the manga and anime industries. [1] Their creative collaborators (and even 6 of the band's members) often started out as big fans of and directly influenced by their work: Berserk mangaka Kentaro Miura has found that listening to Hirasawa's songs has helped him regain focus on the themes of his writing multiple times, [2] mangaka/anime director Satoshi Kon wrote that Hirasawa's work was "a source of imagination and creativity for me" over the last 20 years of his life, [3] film director Daihachi Yoshida considers Hirasawa as the creator of "about half of my way of thinking". [4]

Beyond associates, P-Model and/or Hirasawa have been cited as influences by musicians such as Fukusuke  [ ja ] of Metronome, [5] Hiroyuki Hayashi of Polysics, [6] Daoko [7] (whose song "Welcome to the Parade", from 2012's HyperGirl: Mukōgawa no Onna no Ko, was directly influenced by Hirasawa's worldview [8] ), Toby Driver of Kayo Dot (who claims the album Plastic House on Base of Sky was an attempt to "make [his] version of [Hirasawa's] music") [9] and Kenshi Yonezu (who has said that a Hirasawa song "changed [his] life"). [10]

Other artists that have expressed adoration for their work include Klaha of Malice Mizer, [11] Shiroi Heya no Futari mangaka Ryoko Yamagishi, [12] Arika Takarano of Ali Project, [13] Roujin Z / JoJo's Bizarre Adventure director Hiroyuki Kitakubo, [14] voice actress/singer Sumire Uesaka, [15] musician/actor Gen Hoshino, [16] Hellsing mangaka Kouta Hirano, [17] Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba mangaka Koyoharu Gotouge, [18] Fullmetal Alchemist / Concrete Revolutio director Seiji Mizushima, [19] Fate/stay night [Réalta Nua]/ Taiko no Tatsujin composer Satoshi "hil" Ishikawa [20] and actress/singer Ko Shibasaki. [21]

The five main characters of the K-On! franchise (Yui Hirasawa, Mio Akiyama, Ritsu Tainaka, Tsumugi Kotobuki and Azusa Nakano) are in a band, share the surnames of late '80s P-Model members and play their respective primary instrument (save for Nakano). [22] [23] All referenced members who are still active have acknowledged the connection. [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30] Besides that, P-Model references can also be found on the manga The Sorrow of a Perfectly Healthy Girl [31] [32] and Opus ; [33] as well the anime Sailor Moon , Perfect Blue , [34] BECK: Mongolian Chop Squad and Space Dandy . In the world of theatre, musician/playwright Keralino Sandorovich  [ ja ] named 2 of his stage plays ( Frozen Beach  [ ja ] and Blue Cross) after P-Model songs and 1 (Haldyn Hotel) after a Hirasawa solo song.

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