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Shapeless

release date: August 24, 1994
company: Victor/Invitation
formats: CD (VIZL-18)
initial price: ¥5000
goodies: a poster may have been included with the first copies sold or promo flats of each member or the flats may have simply been used for advertising (I received the flats but that may have not been the norm)

Tracklisting

Jupiter (Silver Moon mix) remixed by Peter Smith and Jon Tye for MLO Productions
D-T-D (Air Liquide mix) remixed by Ingmar Koch (Air Liquide)
In the Glitter PT1 (Gutter mix) remixed by Dominic Woosey of Neutron 9000
Brain, Whisper, Head, Hate is Noise remixed by Richard Kirk of Cabaret Voltaire
Iconoclasm (Don't X Ray Da DAT mix) remixed by Autechre
In the Glitter PT2 (Aphex mix) remixed by Aphex Twin (Richard James)
Killing (Urb mix) remixed by Jon Tye of MLO Productions
Evil Flowers (Neutron 9000 mix) remixed by Dominic Woosey of Neutron 9000
Dress (Spicelab mix) remixed by Oliver Lieb
Hyper Love (Hardfloor remix) remixed by Hardfloor--Oliver Bondzio and Ramon Zenkar

Credits

total conception: Buck-Tick & J. Tanaka
directors: J. Tanaka & Yoshito Kubota
promotors: Naoki Toyoshima & Yoshinari Shimizu
artist management: Hajime Shimokawa; Hitoshi Ojima & Tsutomu Kizawa (Shaking Hands Inc.)
executive producers: Takafumi Muraki & Osamu Takagi
art direction & design: Ken Sakaguchi
location coordinators: George M Cockle & Fatih Cimok
visual coordinator: Masahiro Tomioka
visual supervisor: Inishie Ryu
mastered by Barry Woodward at The Townhouse London
track sequence by Kevin Harris of Cranium H.F.
many thanks to Warp Records for coordinating: Richard James, Richard Kirk and Autechre.
overall coordination: Steve Flood (Sam Corporation U.K.); Lynne Hobday (Sam Corporation U.K.)
thanks also to: (Andrew Beer, David Browne, Gary Stout, Tracii D Sherman, James Brown, Maryke Van Duin, Hiromi Kikukawa, Miriam Gottlieb and) all of the staff of Master Rock Studios for all of the tape copying, fast motorcycles and sample generation.
special thanks to: Hiroishi, Kogure, Ishizuka, Ogiwara, Hamdi Teoman, Norihiro Takahashi, Nikon, M-A-R-S, Jean Paul Gaultier

[this page was last updated on 2021.02.06 @ 10:54:11 CST]

Notes

Ranked #5 on the album chart. 110,000 copies sold.

This is a remix album with the remixes done by foreign artists--none of the remixers are Japanese.

In the Glitter = remix of Kirameki No Naka De...
Killing = remix of Taiyo Ni Korosareta
Evil Flowers = remix of Aku No Hana

This CD came in the package of a 94 page book. Unfortunately, most of the photos are manipulated images of Istanbul, where the members went for the photo shoot. The mixes are for the most part, ambient. "Hyper Love" is a typical vanilla dance mix. The remix of "Dress" was so well loved by Buck-Tick they wanted to play that version live. They played it before going on stage at a show or two in 1994 at Conifer Forest entitled "Shapeless".

Master Rock Studios is thanked in the credits for tape copying and sample generation. That was where Buck-Tick recorded the album Taboo.

Jean Paul Gaultier is thanked in the credits. They may have used Gaultier clothes in the photoshoot but incidentally, Atsushi and Hide modeled in a charity fashion show called "Stop the Aids". They wore Gaultier and Hide walked with his dog Jupita. Jupita died at a young age in 1993.