''Desk Top Hard Lock'' is the first studio album by Phnonpenh Model and the first solo album by

Hikaru Kotobuki is a Japanese musician who worked with artists like Susumu Hirasawa (P-Model), and Jun Togawa. In the early 1980s, Kotobuki joined Morio Agata's tour as a keyboard player and guitarist. After Agata's tour, Kotobuki and Agata formed a band which t ...

. The band was formed to participate in the ''Errors of P-MANIA!'' copy band contest, where they performed the song "Be in a Fix" (from the album '' Perspective'') while sampling "

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", among the other members there was the cross-dressing Lion Merry (formerly of Yapoos, Metrofarce, Virgin VS) and Shonen Maruta (formerly of Ikiru), both members of the band echo-U-nite. It mixes the electronic sounds used by Kotobuki on the "Defrosted" era of

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with ethnic sounds inspired by his travels through the world and the overall mood is marked by Kotobukii's peculiar sense of humor; it also features some sound alteration that Kotobuki would explore in later releases. After this album was released, Kotobuki sold all his musical instruments and travelled through Asia, which left Phnonpenh MODEL inactive until 1997.

Track listing

All songs arranged by

and Lion Merry. Track 3 is a rerecording/remix of the P-Model song of the same name from ''

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'', track 8 is a partial a capella rendition of "Lab=01" from the album ''

'', track 10 is a remix of "Opening SE 1992", P-Model's 'walk on' show opening music.

Personnel

– Keyboard, Vocal, Victory 3000, Production * Lion Merry – Keyboard, Vocal,

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*Masaaki "Shonen Maruta" Taniguchi – Vocal,

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, Tibetan Bell *Thaniya Patpong – Guitar, Vocal,

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*Masami Fujii, DIW – Co-Production *Takeshi Fujita – Direction *Motohiro Yamada – Mixing *Kiyoshi Inagaki –

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*Nakagawa-san – Photography *

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