Releases: Albums
Darker Than Darkness -Style 93-
release date: June 23, 1993
company: Victor/Invitation
formats: CD (VICL-419)
initial price: ¥3000
goodies: first copies sold included either a poster or "B-T Rare-Mix CD" (8cm and limited to 1000 copies)
digital remaster info: September 19, 2002 (VICL-60988; cover image) for ¥2415 (first copies sold included a sticker)
remaster reissue info: September 5, 2007 (VICL-62548; cover image) for ¥2520
Tracklisting
- Kirameki No Naka De... (Sakurai/Imai)
- Deep Slow (Sakurai/Imai)
- Yuuwaku (Sakurai/Hoshino)
- Ao No Sekai (Sakurai/Imai)
- Kamikaze (Imai/Imai)
- Zero (Sakurai/Imai)
- Dress (Sakurai/Hoshino)
- Lion (Sakurai/Imai)
- Madman Blues -Minashigo No Yuuutsu- (Imai/Imai)
- Die (Sakurai/Imai)
- * Not T Dise** [track #75]
- * Kirameki No Naka De** [track #84]
- * D-T-D (Sakurai/Imai) [track #93]
* hidden bonus tracks
2002 digital remaster first pressing extra tracks:
- Dress (Aux Send Mix)
- Die (live)
** digital remaster does not include hidden tracks "Not T Dise" and "Kirameki No Naka De""
Credits
Atsushi Sakurai: vocals
Hisashi Imai: guitars
Hidehiko Hoshino: guitars, piano, synthesizers
Yutaka Higuchi: bass
Toll Yagami: drums, percussion
additional musicians:
Rie Hamada: backing vocals on "Dress"
Kazutoshi Yokoyama: manipulate on "Dress" and "Kirameki No Naka De..."
all songs arranged and produced by Buck-Tick
Recording Staff:
director: Junichi Tanaka
recording and mixing engineer: Hitoshi Hiruma
recording engineers: Shigetoshi Naitoh, Takahiro Uchida
assistant engineers: Hirohito Fujishima, Katsumi Moriya
guitar sound technician: Hiroshi Yamane
drum tuner: Yukihiko Sugimoto
drum tuner and roadie: Shigeo Azami
chief manager: Yoshihiko Masuoka
managers: Hajime Shimokawa, Hitoshi Ojima
chief promotor: Naoki Toyoshima
artist & relations: Masatoshi Ohoka
executive producers: Osamu Takagi, Takafumi Muraki
artist management: Shaking Hands
recorded at Sound Sky Studio February 20-April 30, 1993
Visual Staff:
art direction & design: Ken Sakaguchi
photography: M. Hasui
stylist: Tomoharu Yagi
hair & make-up: Takayuki Tanizaki
coordinators: Masahiro Tomioka, Tsutomu Kizawa
product managers: Kenji Nakao, Yuichiro Soshi
special thanks to: Koni-Yang (Sound Sky Kawana), Akira Sekiguchi, Tatsuo Ohba, Takashi Furuya, Kiyoshi Kawajima (Ludwig), Yutaka Kusano (Fernandes), Kouichiro Shiratsuchi (Greco), Mitsuo Hatano (Bow's Guitar Gallery), Maki Fujii, Hook Up, Akio Matsuki (Ishibashi Gakki), Takashi Harashima, Shigeru Nakano, everyone from The Mad Capsule Market's, Jupita, LAV, Hiro (The Star Club), Trans World, Canopus, Buck-Tick Club, Fernandes, Ludwig, Greco