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and their first to receive a European release. The album explored the sound that would later be used on their following album, '' Osc-Dis''. TORUxxx stepped in on guitar for this album, although

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founder and

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frontman

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, who remixed two tracks and invited the band to tour with ATR. The album was released two years before the breakthrough album ''Osc-Dis'', but there was little international interest at the time. The song "3:31" is a reference to vocalist Kyono's birthdate.

Track listing

All tracks by Takeshi Ueda except where noted. #"Crash Pow" – 3:38 #"Systematic" – 4:18 #"What" – 3:10 #"Water!" – 3:43 #"Have No Fear" (Kyono) – 2:45 #"Sickly Bug" – 3:21 #"JMP" – 3:36 #"3.31" (Kyono) – 4:28 #"Asphalt-Beach" – 3:39 #"Lose It" – 4:14 #"Freak Is Born" (Kyono) – 1:17 #"Do Justice To Yourself, Do Justice To My Life" – 2:20 #"Creature" – 4:18 #"Systematic" (

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Remix) (European version only) #"Creature" (

Mix) (European version only) #"Crash Pow" (

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Mix) (US bonus track)

Personnel

Takeshi Ueda is the bassist, programmer, additional vocalist and songwriter for The Mad Capsule Markets.TORUxxx – guitar * Motokatsu Miyagami – drums *

Hiroshi Kyono Hiroshi Kyono (born Hiroshi Kiyono March 31, 1969 in Yokohama, Japan) is the vocalist for The Mad Capsule Markets. Early years Kyono claims that in his earlier years he was an MTV junky, in high school he started listening to Japanese punk l ...

– vocals *Mad Capsule Markets – producer *Yutaka Goto – executive producer *Kei Kusama – programming *Masanobu Murakami – assistant engineer *Gary Stout – mixing *Kazushige Yamazaki – mastering

Charts

Regional differences

This album was released in

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with a yellow cover (with no lyrical translations and a contains a typing error on the track listing), and in the

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with a purple cover. The US version only contains the two remixes by Alec Empire, whereas European version features an extra remix by the Japanese electronic band Audio Active. both of these versions are out of print, and very hard to find. {{Authority control The Mad Capsule Markets albums 1997 albums 1998 albums