Cosmos (Buck-Tick album) explained

Cosmos
Type:	Studio album
Artist:	Buck-Tick
Cover:	Cosmos - BUCK-TICK.jpg
Released:	(digital remaster) (remaster)
Recorded:	March–April 1996 at Sound Sky Kawana in Tokyo; Victor Studio in Tokyo
Length:	49:50
Language:	Japanese, English
Label:	Victor
Producer:	Koniyang and Buck-Tick
Prev Title:	Six/Nine
Prev Year:	1995
Next Title:	Sexy Stream Liner
Next Year:	1997

Cosmos is the ninth studio album by the Japanese rock band Buck-Tick. The album was released on June 21, 1996, through Victor Entertainment.^[1] It was the group's last album released through Victor and peaked at number six on the Oricon charts.^[2] Cosmos has sold 130,000 copies within two weeks.^[3] The album was digitally remastered and re-released on September 19, 2002, with two bonus tracks. It was remastered and re-released again on September 5, 2007. The song "Tight Rope" was later re-recorded as the b-side to the group's "Alice in Wonder Underground" single in 2007,^[4] and "Sane" was re-recorded in 2012 for their "Elise no Tame ni" single.^[5] The album was heavily influenced by electronic music, as the band started gravitating towards cyberpunk music.^{[6] [7]}

Personnel

• Atsushi Sakurai - lead vocals
• Hisashi Imai - lead guitar, backing vocals
• Hidehiko Hoshino - rhythm guitar, keyboards, backing vocals
• Yutaka Higuchi - bass
• Toll Yagami - drums

Additional performers

• Kazutoshi Yokoyama - piano, backing vocals

Production

• Koniyang - producer, recording, mixing^{[A], mastering}
• Buck-Tick - producers
• Takafumi Muraki; Naoki Toyoshima - executive producers
• Shinichi Ishizuka - mixing^[A]
• Hitoshi Hiruma; Takahiro Uchida - engineers
• Kenichi Araki; Akinori Kaizaki; Hiroshi Tanigawa; Masanobu Murakami; Naoki Ibaraki; Mikiro Yamada - assistant engineers
• Ken Sakaguchi - cover art, graphic design
• Nicci Keller; Alan Solon - photography

Notes

1. ^ ^* The only song that Shinichi Ishizuka mixed and that Koniyang did not mix was "Chocolate".

Notes and References

1. Web site: Cosmos. jame-world.com. 2011-04-13.
2. Web site: BUCK-TICKのアルバム売り上げランキング. oricon.co.jp. 2011-04-27.
3. Web site: 1996.7.8付 アルバムTOP20. https://web.archive.org/web/20160311001916/http://www.geocities.jp/object_ori/960708a.html. 2016-03-11. ja.
4. Web site: Alice in Wonder Underground (Limited Edition). JAME. 2022-06-08.
5. Web site: BUCK-TICK announces new single, "Elise no Tame ni". tokyohive.com. 2012-03-08.
6. Book: Words by Buck-Tick. Shinko Music Publishing Company, Ltd.. 2002. 4-401-61726-6. June 8, 2022. February 22, 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120222121654/http://notgreatestsite.net/articles/ta/bt_1994ongakutohitosaissayinterview.html. dead. .
7. Web site: Buck-Tick. Allmusic. 2017-11-08.