Tokyo Mobile Music 1

Artists

Album Info

Release Date: 1982

Label: The Mobile Suit Corporation

Inner sleeve with tracklist and photographs of artists with caption.

Conceived by David Claridge, who apparently traveled around Tokyo with a hand-held Sony cassette recorder and inserted snippets of ambient city sounds and overheard conversations between the cuts which provide the actual meat of the album.

Liner notes: "Collating the tracks for this album has not proved to be the easiest of tasks. However I hope these tracks will serve as a foretaste of what is to come from Japan in the future. The Mobile Suit Corporation will be focussing on the East and unearthing as much new talent as possible. David Claridge"

On back cover:
Ambient sounds recorded in Tokyo June 81 by David Claridge, Y. Watanabe and H. Shimokana.
© 1982 Phonogram Ltd.
℗ 1982 Phonogram Ltd.
c'est une publication phonogram
Rocking Russian
a product of the mobile suit corporation

SIDE ONE
SFX. Bullet train passing
A1. ℗ 1980 Toshiba EMI, Amuse Music/PMP Music
from the album 'HUMAN BEING' TOSHIBA / EMI ENS.91023
SFX. Riding the bullet plus announcement
A2. ℗ 1980 Japan Records, Virgin Music (Pub. Ltd.)
from the abum 'WELCOME HOME' Japan records JAL 7
SFX. Bus journey to Shibuya (visit BRICKS & PARCO)
A3. ℗ 1981 King Records, Watanabe Music
from the album 'DANCE' KING RECORDS K28A.154
SFX. Pachinko parlour in Shinjuku
A4. ℗ 1980 Seven Seas Records, Virgin Music (Pub. Ltd.)
from the album 'MURDERED BY THE MUSIC STATIC RECORDS (released in UK)
A5. ℗ 1980 Time Records, Nichion Music
from the album 'BLOODLINE' on TIME RECORDS 28mz 1007
SIDE TWO
SFX. Demonstration at Shibuya
B1. ℗ 1981 Lizard, Copyright Control
also on 'BABYLON ROCKER' King records
SFX. Video games in Ginza
B2. ℗ 1978 Toshiba EMI, EMI Publishing
from 1st HIKASHU album
SFX. Fire in downtown Asakusa
B3. ℗ 1981 Salon Music, Copyright Control
SFX. Indecisive guy in McDonalds Shibuya, Trying to decide between a strawberry or a banana milk shake
B4. Virgin Music (Pub. Ltd.) ℗ 1980 Japan Records, Yano Music/PMP Music
from the double album on Japan records 'SUPPERS' READY' JAL 1001 - 2

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