Music Industrial Wastes: P-Model or Die
| Music Industrial Wastes〜P-MODEL OR DIE | ||||
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| Studio album by P-Model | ||||
| Released | September 1, 1999 | |||
| Recorded | 1999 | |||
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| Length | 36:18 | |||
| Label | Chaos Union, Teslakite, | |||
| Producer | P-Model | |||
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Music Industrial Wastes: P-Model or Die, stylized as Music Industrial Wastes〜P-MODEL OR DIE (音楽産業廃棄物〜P-MODEL OR DIE Ongaku Sangyō Haikibutsu〜P-MODEL OR DIE), is the twelfth studio album by P-Model, the third by its "revised" lineup and the final one for the band overall.
In 1999, feeling that technology had advanced enough and frustrated at major labels' reticence to adopt it, P-Model terminated their exclusive contract with Nippon Columbia and started the Music Industrial Wastes: P-Model or Die project. Through it, the band would completely redevelop their distribution methods, starting up the online MP3 store P-Plant with the assistance of the Nikkei Business Publications magazine netn@vi as their primary commercial channel; to service those who don't have computers, the independent label handled CD releases, with a delay from the site sale. They would also organize multiple online events for more direct interaction with their listeners.
As 1999 was also the 20th anniversary of the band's foundation, many activities were organized to commemorate its history, among them the rerecording of songs from the first four P-Model albums in the style of their accompanying live shows as the Virtual Live series of albums and the release of a book chronicling the group's multiple aspects.
The concept of the album Music Industrial Wastes: P-Model or Die is summed up on its first track, inspired by the frustration the P-Plant webmaster was having with the difficulties of copyright in the information age, "Logic Airforce": P-Model is locked on a battle of logic with the music industry. As an extension of the concept of Fune, the long voyage started on that album ends on a post-war battlefield, where people are rebuilding a new world, where all are invited to acceptance, things that would be called escapism and madness in the real world are celebrated, and evil spirits can show their faces. However, in order to continue living inside the real world to some extent, people cast aside their "real names", instead living as "dust humanoids", or "DUSToids".
A theme present in the album is a proper revisiting of the core P-Model concept. To explore that, Kenji Konishi used the drum spatial processing from Perspective and whole tones, giving most of his songs a "concrete garage-like" sound and some periodic sampling of snare drums. Further playing with the "retrieving industrial wastes" concept, he also recorded about 3 hours of sampling from construction sites and similar locations.
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