Demo (P-Model single)

"demo"
Single by P-Model
Released	May 25, 1994 (1994-05-25)
Format	Mini CD single
Recorded	1979 Electro Sound Tokyo
Genre	Post-punk, synthpunk, synthrock, new wave, technopop
Length	6:31
Label	DIW Records, SYUN
Producer(s)	Susumu Hirasawa
P-Model singles chronology
"OPENING SE 1992" (1992) "demo" (1994) "SAKSIT North Passage MIX" (1996)

P-Model made a demo in 1979 to obtain a recording contract; it features 2 songs, each one being composed by Susumu Hirasawa and Yasumi Tanaka, P-Model's main songwriters at the time. The band negotiated with 8 record labels, in the end, they chose to sign a contract with Warner-Pioneer,^[1] all P-MODEL releases from 1979 to 1981 (3 albums and 3 singles) were handled by Warner-Pioneer, including IN A MODEL ROOM, the album where both of these songs were included. Hirasawa also gave a copy to Plastics keyboardist Masahide Sakuma after a Plastics show after asking him to produce In a Model Room, which Sakuma accepted.^[2] Due to the demo nature of the recordings, they are rawer and punkier than the studio recorded versions. The demo was released by Hirasawa's SYUN label in 1994 as a bonus for those who bought both OOPARTS and Pause,^[3] the first release of the SYUN label (due to its nature, the demo received a catalogue number outside of the standard numbering convention of the SYUN label). The demo was remastered by Hirasawa and re-released on the Ashu-on [Sound Subspecies] in the solar system box set on 10 May 2002; it was put on CD 13, with SCUBA RECYCLE, Air On The Wiring and the In a Model Room outtake WHITE SHOES.^[4]

Track listing

Personnel

• Susumu Hirasawa - vocals, guitar, synthesizer, production, engineering
• Yasumi Tanaka - bass, combo organ, synthesizers, drum machine, sequencer, backing vocals, engineering
• Sadatoshi Tainaka - drums

References