Length 34:19 | Release date 25 July 1994 | |
Released July 25, 1994 (1994-07-25)
January 15, 2011 (2011-01-15) (Reissue) Recorded 27 June 1992 ("Industrial Music")
12 October – 30 November 1993 Studio Kotobuki LAB ("Industrial Music")
STUDIO WIRE SELF Label DIW Records, SYUN
IRQ inc. (Reissue) Producer Hikaru Kotobuki
DIW & Masami Fujii (Co-Producers) Artists Phnonpenh Model, Hikaru Kotobuki Genres Techno, Synthpop, Experimental music Similar Pause, This Is Normal, Pateando piedras, Work 1989–2002, Sweet 19 Blues | ||
Desk Top Hard Lock is the first studio album by Phnonopenh MODEL and the first solo album by Hikaru Kotobuki. 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 "Immigrant Song", 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 P-MODEL 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.
Contents
Track listing
All songs arranged by Hikaru Kotobuki and Lion Merry.
Personnel
Songs
1Industrial Music1:19
2Life - Death - And I4:44
3Neoteny BOX4:09