P-Model made a ''

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'' in 1979 to obtain a

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; it features 2 songs, each one being composed by

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and

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, P-Model's main songwriters at the time. The band negotiated with 8

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, in the end, they chose to sign a contract with

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, all P-MODEL releases from 1979 to 1981 (3 albums and 3 singles) were handled by Warner-Pioneer, including ''

IN A MODEL ROOM ''In a Model Room'' is the debut album of Japanese band P-Model. It was an electronic pop album, released in 1979 under the label, Warner Bros. Background By 1978, Susumu Hirasawa, guitarist and vocalist of Mandrake, one of the few Japanese pro ...

'', the album where both of these songs were included. Hirasawa also gave a copy to

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keyboardist Masahide Sakuma after a Plastics show after asking him to produce ''In a Model Room'', which Sakuma accepted. 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'', 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 ound Subspeciesin the solar system'' box set on 10 May 2002; it was put on CD 13, with SCUBA RECYCLE,

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and the ''In a Model Room'' outtake ''WHITE SHOES''.

Track listing

Personnel

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, synthesizers, drum machine,

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, engineering *

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:demo (P-MODEL) P-Model albums 1994 singles Demo albums DIW Records live albums Japanese-language albums