SYUN

SYUN
Parent company disk UNION
Founded 1994
Founder Susumu Hirasawa
Status Defunct
Distributor(s) DIW Records
Chaos Union (Pre P-MODEL/P-MODEL/SYUN/Fukō Project reissues)
IRQ, inc. (Kotobuki reissues)
MECANO (PEVO reissues)
Genre Various
Country of origin Japan

SYUN was a Japanese record label founded by Susumu Hirasawa in 1994. Hirasawa created the label to be able to have freedom to release some of his less commercial works (which later expanded to works by his associates, mostly members of P-MODEL, with most of the albums having Hirasawa involved in some way); the label was named after Syun, Hirasawa's experimental sampler unit, the label's logo is the cover of the Syun album SHUN・4, which was designed by Quiyoshi Inagaki. Distribution was handled by DIW Records, an independent label owned by the music store chain disk UNION. It released music sparsely, always in a pair of two (although the first release had a bonus third product if one were to order both first and second products; the third release was a similar case, although the bonus offer was two booklets; the sixth release had a bonus P-MODEL product for those who had purchased all 6 previous P-MODEL products), which were sold in record stores and through mail order. Hirasawa's direct releases were mostly material that was created years before it was released (the oldest one being from 1978). The label eventually stopped after Hirasawa/P-MODEL signed with Nippon Columbia and later on formed the Chaos Union company, giving himself more freedom to release what he wants. Hirasawa eventually released the Ashu-on [Sound Subspecies] in the solar system and HALDYN DOME box sets (alongside reissuing the P-MODEL video), reissuing most of the SYUN catalog, with most of the remaining releases being out of print since their release under the SYUN label.

Discography

Cat. No. Artist Title Format Release Date
YYYY-MM-DD
SYUN-001 SYUN OOPARTS CD 1994-05-25
SYUN-002 P-MODEL Pause CD 1994-05-25
DSS-001 P-MODEL demo Mini CD single 1994-05-25
SYUN-003 P-MODEL The Way of LIVE (LIVEの方法 LIVE no Hōhō) CD 1994-07-25
SYUN-004 Kotobuki Hikaru with Phnonpenh MODEL Desk Top Hard Lock CD 1994-07-25
SYUN-005 Pre P-MODEL Air On The Wiring (配線上のアリア Haisenjō no Aria) CD 1994-10-22
SYUN-006 SYUN Landscapes CD 1994-10-22
SYUN-007 P-MODEL Corrective Errors〜re-mix of Fune (Corrective Errors〜re-mix of 舟) CD 1995-09-30
SYUN-008 Tadahiko Yokogawa DIVE CD 1995-09-30
SYUN-009 P-MODEL SCUBA RECYCLE CD 1995-11-30
SYUN-010 SYUN SHUN・4 VISION (旬IV VISION) VHS 1995-11-30
S-32580
S-32581
P-MODEL SAKSIT North Passage MIX Vinyl 1996-02-29
SYUN-011 SYUN Kun Mae on a Calculation (計算上のKun Mae Keisanjō no Kun Mae) CD 1996-02-29
SYUN-012 Shifukudan Chiputan (致富譚) CD 1996-02-29
SYUN-013 Fukō Project How about FUKO? (不幸はいかが? Fukō wa ika ga?) CD 1996-10-05
SYUN-014 PEVO CONVEX AND CONCAVE CD 1996-10-05
SYUN-015 Teruo Nakano User Unknown CD 1996-12-10
SYUN-016 P-MODEL Sankai no Jintai Chizu (三界の人体地図) VHS 1996-12-10
SYUN-017 Tadahiko Yokogawa solecism CD 1997-10-24