Susumu Hirasawa discography explained

Artist:	Susumu Hirasawa
Studio:	14
Live:	4
Compilation:	5
Video:	23
Music Videos:	9
Singles:	18
Soundtrack:	19
Option Name:	Rearrangement albums
1Option Name:	As Kaku P-Model
2Option Name:	Side projects

The following is the solo discography of Susumu Hirasawa, Japanese musician and composer. Since the beginning of his professional activities in 1973, Hirasawa has produced a prolific number of recordings, with a constant stream of releases since 1978, under his own name as well as multiple bands and side projects. See Mandrake (Japanese band), P-Model and Shun (band) for more output.

Original albums

Title	Album details	Oricon peak chart position
	Released: 1 September 1989 Label: Polydor K.K. Formats: CD	—
	Released: 25 May 1990 Label: Polydor K.K. Formats: CD
Virtual Rabbit	Released: 1 May 1991 Label: Polydor K.K. Formats: CD
Aurora	Released: 25 February 1994 Label: Polydor K.K. Formats: CD	98
Sim City	Released: 2 August 1995 Label: Polydor K.K. Formats: CD	91
Siren	Released: 1 August 1996 Label: Nippon Columbia, TESLAKITE Formats: CD	—
	Released: 21 August 1998 Label: Nippon Columbia, TESLAKITE Formats: CD
	Released: 6 October 2000 Label: Chaos Union, TESLAKITE Formats: CD, Digital download
Blue Limbo	Released: 13 February 2003 Label: Chaos Union, TESLAKITE Formats: CD	202
	Released: 2 February 2006 Label: Chaos Union, TESLAKITE Formats: CD	171
	Released: 18 February 2009 Label: Chaos Union, TESLAKITE Formats: CD	42
	Released: 23 November 2012 Label: Chaos Union, TESLAKITE Formats: CD	43
	Released: 18 November 2015 Label: Chaos Union, TESLAKITE Formats: CD	32
Beacon	Released: 28 July 2021 Label: Chaos Union, TESLAKITE Formats: CD, Digital download	12

Mini-albums

Title	Release details
Root of Spirit: Charity Original Tape (魂のふる里: Charity Original Tape)	Released: 10 April 1988 Label: Self-released Formats:
Hirasawa Energy Works	Released: 27 December 2001 Label: Chaos Union, TESLAKITE Formats: Digital download
	Released: 29 June 2005 Label: Chaos Union, TESLAKITE Formats: Digital download
ICE-9	Released: 30 August 2005 Label: Chaos Union, TESLAKITE Formats: CD
	Released: July 2006 Label: Chaos Union, TESLAKITE Formats: CD
	Released: 21 July 2020 Label: Chaos Union, TESLAKITE Formats: Digital download

• 1 The track "Ruktun or Die" was a limited-time offer, and was taken out of sale in January 2002.
• 2 Five of the seven ringtones were released by twenty2product on their website for free under the name "22p_rto01".

Soundtracks

Besides the works listed below, he also contributed pieces for the anime X-Bomber (see "other projects").

Original work	Type	Release	Release details
	radio drama	—
National Color Trans-Am X30	commercial (radio)
Riki Choshu and André the Giant entrances	live-action (wrestling matches)		Released: 1980 Label: King Formats: LP
various	commercial	Model House Works	Released: May 1985 Label: Model House Formats: CS
entrances	live-action (wrestling matches)		Released: 25 March 1986 Label: Tokuma Japan Corporation, Japan Record Formats: LP
	live-action (television film)	—
Detonator Orgun^[1]	anime (OVA)	Detonator Orgun 1	Released: 25 August 1991 Label: Polydor K.K. Formats: CD
Detonator Orgun 2		Released: 25 October 1991 Label: Polydor K.K. Formats: CD
Detonator Orgun 3		Released: 25 March 1992 Label: Polydor K.K. Formats: CD
Glory Wars	novel trilogy	Glory Wars	Released: 25 January 1993 Label: Polydor K.K. Formats: CD
Tadashi Shimada's Forest Message Kamui Mintara [Akan, Hokkaidō]	live-action (nature/ethnographic documentary)	—	Released: 29 February 2012 Label: Chaos Union, Teslakite Formats: CD
Sword-Wind Chronicle BERSERK	anime (TV series)	Sword-Wind Chronicle BERSERK Original Soundtrack	Released: 6 November 1997 Label: VAP Formats: CD
LOST LEGEND	theme park stage show	LOST LEGEND Legend of the Lost Continent Original Sound Track	Released: 1 March 1999 (show opening) 25 April 1999 Label: Chaos Union, biosphere Records Formats: CD
	video game	BERSERK Millennium Falcon Arc Chapter of the Flowers of Oblivion Original Game Soundtrack	Released: 15 December 1999 Label: Hakusensha, Marine ENTERTAINMENT Formats: CD
densha	american animation/live-action (short film)	—
Lagnacure Legend	video game
loop	american animation/live-action (short film)
Far Nation	video game
Millennium Actress	anime (film)	Millennium Actress Original Sound Track	Released: 6 September 2002 Label: Chaos Union, TESLAKITE Formats: CD
AmigaOS 4	operating system	—	Released: April 2004 Label: Hyperion Entertainment Formats: CD
Paranoia Agent	anime (TV series)	Paranoia Agent Original Soundtrack	Released: 12 May 2004 5 April 2005 Label: Chaos Union, TESLAKITE Chaos Union, Geneon Entertainment USA Formats: CD
Paranoia Agent Outtake Collection		Released: 16 May 2004 Label: Chaos Union, TESLAKITE Formats: Digital download
IdN My Favorite Conference 2004 intro sequence	american animation (short film)	—
Adobe Expert Support trade show loop
BERSERK Millennium Falcon Arc Chapter of the Holy Demon War	video game	BERSERK Millennium Falcon Arc Chapter of the Holy Demon War Original Soundtrack	Released: 25 November 2004 Label: VAP, ULF Records Formats: CD
Paprika	anime (film)	"Paprika" Original Soundtrack	Released: 23 November 2006 22 February 2007 22 May 2007 Label: Chaos Union, TESLAKITE Milan Records Formats: CD, Digital Download
Dreaming Machine^[2]		—
—	online news	Free Music for Free-Lance Journalists and Independent Media	Released: 24 March 2011 Label: Chaos Union, TESLAKITE Formats: Digital download
BERSERK Golden Age Arc	anime (films)	BERSERK Golden Age Arc II Siege of Doldrey	Released: 5 December 2012 Label: VAP Video Formats: DVD, BD
Berserk^[3]	anime (TV series)	TV Animation Berserk Original Soundtrack	Released: 30 November 2016 Label: NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan Formats: CD
Opus	anime (film)	—

• 1 Hirasawa only made sound effects for the show, and only worked on it for about a year.
• 2 A jingle for a radio/TV/cassette recorder combo. Performed with Yasumi Tanaka. Broadcast 1980. Never officially released.
• 3 Choshu's theme,, is credited to "Hanmyō Ibo" for writing, a play on the Japanese word for "beetle" picked by happenstance;^[4] and "Z.Z.Z." for performance. Disowned by Hirasawa. Included on multiple subsequent wrestling over the decades, Hirasawa's recording only appears on King releases. Various artists have covered the song, including Ken Ishii. André's theme is attributed to E-Project.
• 4 A collection of ten assorted commercial jingles for Shiseido, Tama-Plaza, Matsuzakaya/Kansai Yamamoto, Sony, Nestlé/Nescafé, Teijin and Marui. Six variations of a jingle for Matsuden Home Shopping by Teruo Nakano are also included. Released as a bonus for the first volume of the Moire Club newsletter.
• 5 Writing and performance are credited to "Yoshio Fukurai", a tribute to Tomokichi Fukurai. Out of the album's eleven tracks, "Furukai" is only present on the title track.
• 6 Aired once by KTV, who co-produced it with Toho, on 2 February 1987. Based on the 1974 Seiichi Morimura suspense novel of the same name. Hirasawa made its backing music, Shin'ichi Sako made the sound effects and the theme song was done by George Winston.^[5]
• 7 A month before the release of the first episode, Polydor released a "making of" tape titled Detonator Orgun 0, containing an interview with Hirasawa and clips of a press conference he participated with others in the anime's staff.
• 8 Image mini-album commissioned by, author of the Kadokawa Sneaker Bunko series and Detonator Orgun writer.^[6]
• 9 The first installment of , a now defunct series of television documentary specials produced annually by Hokkaido Television Broadcasting. It was originally broadcast on 29 April 1992 and later re-edited for home video release (released 25 January 1993 on VHS and LaserDisc). Hirasawa appears in the TV edit paddling a canoe. The soundtrack has never had an official standalone release: The title track was originally released on Root of Spirit -Essence of Hirasawa Solo Works- and Music for Movies - Great Movie Sounds of Susumu Hirasawa compilations, while the only release of the soundtrack proper is on Disc 11 of the Haldyn Dome box set, 20 years after the documentary aired.
• 10 A "spectacle show" summer attraction at the in Shima. When it premiered, the soundtrack could be only bought from the park's gift shops.
• 11 A short movie about the JR Shinjuku Station. The soundtrack has never had an official standalone release; the only kind of sound played on the short (which bears some resemblance to Syun's "Kun Mae #4" from 1996's Kun Mae on a Calculation) was originally released on Illegal Dumping (spelt "Densha", see "other releases"), it was later released with other twenty2product collaborations and remaining tracks on Disc 16 of the Haldyn Dome box set (spelt "densha").
• 12 An Artdink PlayStation RPG. Hirasawa only composed and performed the opening theme: . Originally released on From Hirasawa: Solo Songs Not on CD (see "other releases"), a live performance with a new arrangement is included on the Phonon 2553 Vision DVD, a studio recording of that (named "2010 version") is included with other miscellaneous tracks on Disc 16 of the Haldyn Dome box set.
• 13 A looping presentation on alternative energy, part of the "Hirasawa Energy Works" project. The soundtrack has never had an official standalone release. The audio, recorded during a surge of "Surplus Power" (see "other releases") was originally released on Hirasawa's Phantom Notes website (named "LOOP The Sound Track β1"). It was later released with other twenty2product collaborations and remaining tracks on Disc 16 of the Haldyn Dome box set (named "loop").
• 14 MMORPG developed by Sega originally for the Dreamcast, moved to the Xbox after the discontinuation of the former console, and ultimately cancelled.^[7] The exact extent of Hirasawa's involvement is unknown; one track ("Nation-F") saw release on the Music For Movies～World of Susumu Hirasawa Soundtracks compilation.
• 15 Hirasawa only composed and performed the boot jingle: "Eastern-boot". Two additional tracks were included on the AmigaOS 4.0 CD to showcase Hirasawa's music. The jingle was later released in the FAMIGA (Japanese Amiga community involved with Hirasawa) forums and with Hirasawa's Near Future Never Come e-book.
• 16 The soundtrack has never had an official standalone release; the only kind of sound played on the short was originally released on Live Byakkoya – White Tiger Field Memorial Package (named "Bonus Spot"), it was later released with other twenty2product collaborations and remaining tracks on Disc 16 of the HALDYN DOME box set (named "IDN").
• 17 The soundtrack has never had an official standalone release.
• 18 Hirasawa only composed and performed the opening theme "Sign" and the ending theme "Sign-2", two different arrangements of the same song.
• 19 Production on the film was halted for financial and artistic reasons following the death of director Satoshi Kon. Only a few scene/song combinations were set by Kon before his death.^[8] Hirasawa made some music for the film.^[9]
• 20 A collection of various songs by Hirasawa and PEVO 1go from their careers that have been edited to serve as film score to be freely used by independent media and free-lance journalists delivering news via the Internet.
• 21 Hirasawa only composed and performed the theme song: "Aria". While there have been soundtrack releases for the films, none of them include Hirasawa's work. "Aria" was originally a single-only release; it was then included in the Ash Crow compilation 5 years later, with the single CD being discontinued.^[10]
• 22 The Japanese home video release of the film includes a live performance of "Aria" from Hirasawa's "Phonon 2555" concert tour (when that tour's DVD was released, this same performance was included, but with alternative angles overlaid on top of the version on this DVD). Video of a public appearance made by Hirasawa, the trilogy's director and voice actors of the main characters to promote the third film, The Advent, was included in its Japanese home video release.
• 23 Hirasawa only composed and performed the insert songs "Ashes" and "Ash Crow". Both were first released in Ash Crow (see "rearrangement albums").

Songs licensed for soundtracks

Year	Work	Type	Song(s) used
1985		commercial	"Karkador" (arranged and performed by P-Model)
1986	AV Cocktail chapter 4 ⟨CVI Art⟩	video magazine
1992	Suntory Old Whisky	commercial
????	Itsukushima
2004	Paranoia Agent	anime	"Gemini 2" "1778-1985" "Kingdom"
2017	A Beautiful Star	live-action (film)
	Ruiner	video game	"Recall"

• 1 A promotional release to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the laserdisc by Pioneer, who commissioned Australian video artist to make a video for the song to be included.^[11]
• 2 Instead of featuring any of the recordings Hirasawa made of the song, the film uses a cover sung by two of its main actors (Ryuya Wakaba and Asuka Hinoi).

Unidentified jingles

From 1983 to 1990, Hirasawa worked on various commercials. Unlike most of the soundtracks listed above, Hirasawa undertook these less out of artistic interest and more out of financial necessity. Outside of those included on Model House Works, most of these jingles have never been officially released and not precisely identified—by Hirasawa or his fanbase—but among his clients were companies like Denon,, Japan Tobacco, Kirin, Mazda, Mizuno, NTT, (rearranging another musician's jingle^[12]), Rado, Snow Brand Milk Products,, TV Asahi, Unicharm and Volvo.^[13] After he acquired an Amiga, he took on a handful jobs making both music and CGI with Takara, and HTB.^[13] Beyond broadcast work, he also contributed to installations like the Optic Fiber Clock (located on the Bellvia mall near Chino Station, plays a unique Hirasawa song centred on bird chirps once an hour 10 times a day; originally featured karakuri puppet birds that moved in sync with the chirps), automated teller machines, a closing time tune for a Shinjuku cake shop and synthesizer sound effects to make a Korakuen Amusement Park rollercoaster scary.^[13]

Rearrangement albums

Title	Album details	Oricon peak chart position
Solar Ray	Released: 11 October 2001 Label: Chaos Union, TESLAKITE Formats: CD	—
Switched-On Lotus	Released: 10 January 2004 Label: Chaos Union, TESLAKITE Formats: CD
	Released: 23 June 2010 Label: Chaos Union, TESLAKITE Formats: CD	43
	Released: 10 November 2010 Label: Chaos Union, TESLAKITE Formats: CD	44
P-0 Gazio Mix CD	Released: 8 June 2013 Label: Gazio Formats: CD	—
Ash Crow	Released: 14 September 2016 Label: Chaos Union, TESLAKITE Formats: CD	16
	Released: 21 December 2017 Label: Chaos Union, TESLAKITE Formats: Digital download	—
Rubedo/Albedo	Released: 3 February 2023 Label: Chaos Union, TESLAKITE Formats: Digital download	—

• 1 Also a compilation album.

Live memorial packages

Collections of studio recordings of rearrangements and/or original songs made for live shows.

Title	Album details
	Released: 12 July 2003 Label: Chaos Union, TESLAKITE Formats: Digital download
	Released: 19 July 2006 Label: Chaos Union, TESLAKITE Formats: Digital download
World Cell 2015 Memorial Package	Released: 15 January 2016 Label: Chaos Union, TESLAKITE Formats:, digital download
	Released: 1 September 2017 Label: Chaos Union, TESLAKITE Formats: M∞Card
	Released: 1 December 2017 Label: Chaos Union, TESLAKITE Formats: M∞Card
	Released: 10 June 2020 Label: Chaos Union, TESLAKITE Formats: M∞Card
	Released: 10 November 2020 Label: Chaos Union, TESLAKITE Formats: M∞Card
	Released: 1 December 2020 Label: Chaos Union, TESLAKITE Formats: M∞Card
	Released: 22 July 2022 Label: Chaos Union, TESLAKITE Formats: M∞Card

• 1 The English version of his website only allows the purchase of one song from this album, "Aurora 3".

Live albums

Title	Album details	Oricon peak chart position
Error CD	Released: 11 July 1990 Label: Polydor K.K. Formats: CD	—
Phonon 2550 Live	Released: 23 April 2008 Label: Chaos Union, TESLAKITE Formats: CD	220
	Released: 29 May 2014 Label: Chaos Union, TESLAKITE Formats: CD	52
	Released: 27 November 2021 Label: Nippon Columbia, TESLAKITE Formats: Digital download	41

• 1 Artist given as .

Other releases

Title	Release details
series	Released: 8 July 1994 – 31 March 1995 Label: Hirasawa Bypass Formats: CS
	Released: 28 November 1998 Label: Green Nerve Formats: CS
	Released: 22 August 2001 Label: Chaos Union, TESLAKITE Formats: Digital download
	Released: 28 November 2001 Label: Chaos Union, TESLAKITE Formats: Digital download
	Released: 25 January 2002 Label: Chaos Union, TESLAKITE Formats: Digital download
	Released: 12 March 2003 Label: Chaos Union, TESLAKITE Formats: Digital download
P-0	Released: 2007 – 18 August 2007 Label: Chaos Union, TESLAKITE Formats: Digital download

• 1 This is a series of recordings of a weekly half-hour radio show that Hirasawa hosted. It lasted 39 broadcasts, divided in 12 volumes, released in sets of 4 tapes.

Singles

Main release	Release	Release details
The Ghost in Science		Released: 25 May 1990 Label: Polydor K.K. Format: Mini CD single
Detonator Orgun 1	[Physical Navigation Version]	Released: 25 June 1991 Label: Polydor K.K. Format: Mini CD single
Root of Spirit Essence of Hirasawa Solo Works		Released: 10 April 1992 Label: Polydor K.K. Format: Mini CD single
Siren		Released: 1 August 1996 Label: Nippon Columbia, TESLAKITE Format: Mini CD single
Sword-Wind Chronicle Berserk Original Soundtrack	"Berserk -Forces-"	Released: 1 November 1997 Label: Nippon Columbia, TESLAKITE Format: Mini CD single
Berserk Millennium Falcon Arc Chapter of the Holy Demon War Original Soundtrack	"Sign"	Released: 20 December 2004 Label: Chaos Union, TESLAKITE Format: MP3
Berserk Golden Age Arc Trilogy	"Aria"	Released: 4 February 2012 Label: Chaos Union, TESLAKITE Format: CD single
-		Released: 25 December 2014 Label: Chaos Union, TESLAKITE Formats: MP3
Technique of Relief	"Town-0 Phase-5"/	Released: 3 November 2019 Label: Nippon Columbia, TESLAKITE Format: 7 inch vinyl
-		Released: 6 May 2023 Label: Chaos Union, TESLAKITE Formats: Digital download

• 1 Solo rerecording of 1990 collaboration (see "various artists compilations"). Fanclub members can download it and a karaoke mix for free.

Free MP3 samples

Hirasawa has semi-regularly uploaded snippets of album tracks ever since the start of professional activities online, and after going independent, regularly releases one track from an album free of charge, effectively serving the same purpose of a single in promoting the parent album.

Main release	Release	Release details
Blue Limbo	"Ride the Blue Limbo"	Released: 25 December 2002
Switched-On Lotus		Released: 21 January 2004
Paranoia Agent Original Soundtrack		Released: 16 May 2004
Ice-9		Released: 21 September 2005
Byakkoya – White Tiger Field		Released: 22 February 2006
"Paprika" Original Soundtrack		Released: 23 November 2006
Planet Roll Call		Released: 18 February 2009
Totsu-Gen-Hen-I	"Solid Air"	Released: 16 June 2010
Hen-Gen-Ji-Zai		Released: 6 November 2010
The Secret of the Flowers of Phenomenon		Released: 2 November 2012
The Man Climbing the Hologram		Released: 9 October 2015
The 6th Formant		Released: 18 December 2017

Albumless free MP3s

Release	Release details
	Released: 24 June 2011
	Released: 12 December 2015
"Okagesama Count 1000"	Released: 2 April 2016
	Released: 7 October 2017

• 1 Performed as "Stealthman". Limited-time release, removed from No Room on 29 June 2011. Came with lyrics on text file. An instrumental mix,, also received a limited-time release (uploaded 29 June 2011, removed 4 July 2011). Both allowed re-distribution.

Various artists compilations

Title	Release details	Track
	Released: 1978 Label: RVC Formats: 12 inch vinyl
	Released: 25 February 1989 Label: Polydor K.K. Formats: CD	"Turista"
White Album '90	Released: 10 November 1990 Label: Polydor K.K. Formats: CD
	Released: 26 December 1999 Label: Chaos Union, TESLAKITE Formats: MP3	"Densha"

• 1 Also included in Mandrake's Unreleased Materials Vol. 2.
• 2 Lyrics co-written with Masami Orimo. Performed by "Susumu Hirasawa with "; vocals by Shimazaki. Also included in the compilations "20th anniversary BOX", "for winter music Lovers ～ TECHNO POP Xmas" and "Archetype | 1989～1995 Polydor years of Hirasawa". Rerecorded solo for Christmas 2014 (see "singles").
• 3 Group of songs released as prizes for winning a browser game.

Compilations

Title	Release details	Oricon peak chart position
	Released: 2 May 1992 Label: Polydor K.K. Formats: CD	—
^[14]	Released: 7 June 2007^[15] Label: Chaos Union, TESLAKITE Formats: CD	240
Haldyn Dome	Released: 29 February 2012 Label: Chaos Union, TESLAKITE Formats: CD	—
Archetype 1989~1995 Polydor Years of Hirasawa	Released: 24 September 2014 Label: Universal Music Japan Formats: SHM-CD	142
Symphonic Code Susumu Hirasawa Instrumental Music: The Polydor Years	Released: 5 November 2014 Label: Universal Music Japan Formats: SHM-CD	—

Videos

Title	Release details
	Released: 21 September 1990 Label: Polydor K.K. Formats: VHS
Making of Tokyo Paranesian	Released: October 1994 Label: Hirasawa Bypass Formats: VHS
	Released: November 1994 Label: Hirasawa Bypass Formats: VHS
	Released: November 1994 Label: Hirasawa Bypass Formats: VHS
Sim City Tour 1995.9.6 Tokyo Shibuya Kokaido	Released: December 1995 Label: Hirasawa Bypass Formats: VHS
	Released: 21 January 1997 Label: Nippon Columbia, TESLAKITE Formats: VHS
	Released: 15 May 2001 Label: Chaos Union, TESLAKITE Formats: VHS, DVD
Hirasawa Energy Works Solar Live LIVE SOLAR RAY	Released: 24 September 2002 Label: Chaos Union, TESLAKITE Formats: VHS, DVD
Interactive Live Show 2003 LIMBO-54	Released: 26 November 2003 Label: Chaos Union, TESLAKITE Formats: DVD
	Released: 19 September 2006 Label: Chaos Union, TESLAKITE Formats: DVD
	Released: 31 October 2007 Label: Chaos Union, TESLAKITE Formats: DVD
Phonon 2550 Vision	Released: 30 October 2008 Label: Chaos Union, TESLAKITE Formats: DVD
Phonon 2551 Vision	Released: 15 August 2009 Label: Chaos Union, TESLAKITE Formats: DVD
	Released: 15 February 2010 Label: Chaos Union, TESLAKITE Formats: DVD
Phonon 2553 Vision	Released: 30 May 2011 Label: Chaos Union, TESLAKITE Formats: DVD
	Released: 30 November 2011 Label: Chaos Union, TESLAKITE Formats: DVD
Phonon 2555 Vision	Released: 19 August 2013 Label: Chaos Union, TESLAKITE Formats: DVD
	Released: 28 January 2015 Label: Chaos Union, TESLAKITE Formats: DVD
Hybrid Phonon	Released: 13 April 2017 Label: Chaos Union, TESLAKITE Formats: DVD
Interactive Live Show World Cell 2015	Released: 11 July 2019 Label: Chaos Union, TESLAKITE Formats: DVD
	Released: 28 March 2021 Label: Chaos Union, TESLAKITE Formats: DVD

• 1 Mixture of concert footage and explanations of the technical aspect behind an Interactive Live Show.
• 2 Mixture of concert footage and Q&A sessions.
• 3 Artist given as .

Non-concert videos

Title	Release details
	Released: January 1989 Label: Moire Club Formats: VHS
Photon series	Released: 1989 – 1995 Label: Photon Formats: VHS
	Released: April 1990 Label: Polydor K.K. Formats: VHS
	Released: 18 August 2008 Label: Chaos Union, TESLAKITE Formats: DVD

As Kaku P-Model

"Hybrid" releases, containing both solo and P-Model material, are listed elsewhere (see "live albums" and "videos").

Albums

Title	Release details	Oricon peak chart position
Vistoron	Released: 7 October 2004 Label: Chaos Union, TESLAKITE Formats: CD	—
Gipnoza (Russian: гипноза)	Released: 6 November 2013 Label: Chaos Union, TESLAKITE Formats: CD	31
	Released: 5 September 2018 Label: Chaos Union, TESLAKITE Formats: CD	26

Free MP3 samples

Main release	Release	Release details
Vistoron	"Big Brother"	Released: 1 October 2004
Gipnoza	"Gipnoza" (Russian: гипноза)	Released: 9 October 2013
The Method of the Live 2: The Magic for Introduction		Released: 28 April 2014
Kai=Kai		Released: 3 August 2018

Live memorial packages

Title	Release details
	Released: 22 February 2005 Label: Chaos Union, TESLAKITE Formats: MP3
Kai=Kai Memorial Package Card 2018 Osaka (回=回 大阪公演 メモリアル・パッケージカード)	Released: 7 November 2018 Label: Chaos Union, TESLAKITE Formats: M∞Card
Kai=Kai Memorial Package Card 2018 Tokyo (回=回 東京公演 メモリアル・パッケージカード)	Released: 7 January 2019 Label: Chaos Union, TESLAKITE Formats: M∞Card
Kai=Kai Memorial Package Card 2019 Tokyo (回=回 追加公演 メモリアル・パッケージカード)	Released: 29 March 2019 Label: Chaos Union, TESLAKITE Formats: M∞Card

Videos

Title	Release details
Live Vistoron	Released: 1 April 2005 Label: Chaos Union, TESLAKITE Formats: DVD
	Released: 6 June 2015 Label: Chaos Union, TESLAKITE Formats: DVD

Remixes

Title	Release details
"Anti-Vistoron" (Mecano Version)	Released: 1 April 2005 Label: MECANO Formats: CD single
"Big Brother" –	Released: 3 April 2008 Label: MECANO Formats: CD single
t0t1	Released: 30 June 2015 Label: MECANO Formats: CD (various artists compilation)
"Travelator"_PATYF	Released: 22 September 2018 Label: Self-released Formats: free MP3
	Released: 2 April 2020 Label: Self-released Formats: free MP3

Other projects

Project name	Other members	Release	Release details
Pre P-Model	Yasumi Tanaka Akiro "Kamio" Arishima		Released: 22 October 1994 Label: DIW, SYUN Formats: CD
	Akiro "Kamio" Arishima Takashi Kokubo		Released: 1980 Label: KING Formats: 33 RPM Record
E-PROJECT BOW WOW		Released: 21 November 1980 Label: SOUNDS MARKETING SYSTEM (SMS) Formats: 33 RPM Record
	Kenji Konishi		Released: 5 December 1996 Label: DIW, SYUN Formats: CD
Global Trotters	Kenji Konishi Hans-Joachim Roedelius Alquimia David Bickley Felix Jay	Drive	Released: 25 March 1999 Label: MAGNET, biosphere records Formats: CD
Global Trotters Hans-Joachim Roedelius David Bickley Alex Paterson	GLOBAL TROTTERS PROJECT volume I DRIVE	Released: 7 June 1999 Label: Rykodisc Formats: CD
Susumu Hirasawa + InhVmaN	Riccardo "InhVmaN" Brett	Tetragrammaton	Released: 25 June 2008 Label: Chaos Union, TESLAKITE Bunker Productions Formats: CD single

• 1 Although Hirasawa is considered a core member of the group, he only worked on the track "Parallel Motives".
• 2 This album is a remix album of "Drive" made by Roedelius and Bickley, including a remix of "Parallel Motives".
• 3 Paterson did "Parallel Motives II", a re-remix-crossfade of the "Parallel Motives" remix.

Collaborations

Artist/Group	Release	Release details	Collaboration(s)	Track(s)
The Bach Revolution	Synthesizer Study	Released: 1978 Label: OVER SEAS Formats: 33 RPM Record	Guitar Keyboard Synthesizer Arrangement	All
	ROCK & KEYBOARD'79 SYNTHESIZER Supplement Record	Released: 10 October 1978 Label: April Music Formats: 45 RPM Record	Composition Performance
	PRO-WRESTLING SUPER FIGHTER'S THEMES	Released: 1979 Label: KING Formats: 33 1/3 RPM Record	Performance
	No Warning	Released: 21 November 1979 Label: RVC Formats: 33 RPM Record	Synthesizer
Shampoo	Tonight	Released: 25 April 1982 Label: Tokuma Musical Industries, CLIMAX RECORDS Formats: 45 RPM Record	Production	All
3F=C		Released: Spring 1984 Label: RBF Records Formats: 45 RPM Record	Engineering Sound Adviser
Michiro Endo		Released: 10 April 1984 Label: JICC Publishing Bureau Formats: Cassette Book	Guitar Keyboard
	KI-GA KI-GA KI-KYO	Released: June 1984 Label: Self-released Formats: 45 RPM Record	Bass Keyboard Arrangement
Hisakatsu Igarashi	PUZZLE	Released: 1 December 1984 Label: KING RECORD, NEXUS Records Formats: 33 RPM Record	Composition Guitar
THE LOODS	HARD MOUSE	Released: 1985 Label: RBF Records Formats: 33 RPM Record	Production/Adjustment Keyboard	"Hard Mouse" and "Paradise"
	STOP FUCKIN' AROUND!	Released: 10 February 1985 Label: RBF Records Formats: 33 RPM Record	Production/Adjustment Keyboard	All
Michiro Endo		Released: 30 March 1985 Label: TŌSHIBA-EMI Formats: 45 RPM Record	Synthesizer	WATER SISTER
THE LOODS	LOUD MACHINE	Released: 1986 Label: RBF Records Formats: 33 RPM Record	Production	All
	Maximum Kiss	Released: 25 July 1989 Label: Alfa Records Formats: CD	Production Arrangement	All
Jun Togawa		Released: 16 December 1989 Label: Teichiku Records Formats: CD	Production Arrangement Performance	,, and
Kazutoki Umezu	KINEMA	Released: 21 April 1990 Label: NEC Avenue Formats: CD	Vocals
	TWO OF US	Released: December 1990 Label: VIVID SOUND, Cycle Records Formats: CD	Lyrics Vocals
Jun Togawa		Released: 21 December 1990 Label: Teichiku Records Formats: Mini CD single	Arrangement Performance	All
		Released: 7 June 1991 Label: TŌSHIBA-EMI Formats: CD	Guitar
HERE IS EDEN		Released: 25 June 1991 Label: Tokuma Japan Corporation, Japan Record Formats: CD	Production Guitar	and
Yapoos		Released: 16 October 1991 Label: TŌSHIBA-EMI Formats: VHS	Guitar	Fool Girl Men's JUNAN
	Dadada ism	Released: 28 October 1992 Label: TŌSHIBA-EMI Formats: CD	Composition Arrangement Production	and
4-D	Subconscious Unity	Released: 1993 Label: Iron Beat Manifesto Formats: CD	Guitar	Frontier
TAKA		Released: 25 March 1994 Label: Polydor K.K. Formats: Mini CD single	Production Guitar	All
	Shelly	Released: 25 June 1994 Label: Polydor K.K. Formats: Mini CD single
	TAKA	Released: 25 July 1994 Label: Polydor K.K. Formats: CD
Kotobuki Hikaru with Phnonpenh Model	Desk Top Hard Lock	Released: 25 July 1994 Label: DIW, SYUN Formats: CD	Composition
Yapoos		Released: 31 January 1995 Label: disk UNION, AXËL Formats: CD
Tadahiko Yokogawa	DIVE	Released: 30 September 1995 Label: DIW, SYUN Formats: CD	Lyrics Vocals	CALL
Yoko Ueno	e-mix	Released: 25 May 1996 Label: MAGNET, biosphere Records Formats: CD	Remixing	Tangmo Mix
PEVO	CONVEX AND CONCAVE	Released: 5 October 1996 Label: DIW, SYUN Formats: CD	Production Vocals Lyrics	All
		Released: 19 October 1996 Label: Nippon Columbia, TESLAKITE Formats: CD	Guitar Solo	voix
Yūko Miyamura	Mother	Released: 21 February 1998 Label: Victor Entertainment Formats: Mini CD single	Composition Performance Arrangement	All
		Released: 21 March 1998 Label: Victor Entertainment Formats: CD		Mother MOON
Yoko Ueno	biosphere Label Sampler Plus	Released: 23 September 1998 Label: MAGNET, biosphere Records Formats: CD	Remixing	AOIFE (remix)
Yūko Miyamura		Released: 25 August 1999 Label: Victor Entertainment Formats: CD	Composition Performance Arrangement	Ruktun or Die
Yuiko		Released: 26 March 2003 Label: Warner Music Japan Formats: CD single	Composition Performance
NHK Okāsan to Issho	–	Released: 16 October 2003 Label: Pony Canyon Formats: CD	Composition Arrangement
		Released: 21 April 2004 Label: Pony Canyon Formats: DVD
4-D	Die offizielle Raubkopie	Released: 1 August 2006 Label: Self-released Formats: CD	Guest (Computer Programming Vocals Guitar)	Session7_1 (Yoko-Nari~Koni-Hira~Hirasawa Session)
	Rekonnekted	Released: 21 February 2008 Label: 4-D Label Formats: CD	Guitar	My Neighbor Upstairs
		Released: 28 December 2009 Label: 4-D Label Formats: CD-R		(nylon destroyed mix)
	DENKMAL	Released: 20 September 2010 Label: 4-D Label Formats: CD		(Cafè Mix)
	DRIVE	Released: 18 October 2013 Label: 4-D Label Formats: CD-R		CREST
	Wieder	Released: 28 December 2013 Label: 4-D Label Formats: CD-R	Guitar Vocals	Wieder
PEVO		Released: 9 November 2014 Label: Pullmozile Formats: CD	Guitar	Ya! Po
	OFFICIAL BOOTLEG DVD NEOZIC	Released: 4 April 2015 Label: Pullmozile Formats: DVD	Guitar Vocals	Ya! Po
		Released: 21 September 2016 Label:, Formats: CD	Vocals Guitar
	V	Released: 28 December 2016 Label: Avex Trax Formats: DVD, BD		Descent into Madness Close Peepshow Dawn words falling B612 Texture
Hikashu		Released: 15 December 2017 Label: Makigami Office Formats: digital download, CD, DVD		Ruktun or Die
Toshifumi Nakai	Monogrammed	Released: 14 June 2018 Label: Teslakite Formats: digital download, CD	Guitar Solo Oneshot Voice	Transpose In and Inside Ranjiku
	This is Our Music	Released: 1 April 2020 Label: Heliosphere Formats: CD, digital download	performance
	05 -zerogo-	Released: 29 March 2021 Label: Zapp Formats: CD, digital download	guitar	II (Iwate Prefecture Min'yō)

• 1 Performed with Mandrake.
• 2 This record was included with a magazine that had an opinion piece by Hirasawa on Tony Banks published in it.
• 3 Performed with Mandrake. Covers of the entrance themes of Abdullah the Butcher and Jumbo Tsuruta.
• 4 Credited under "Special Thanks", alongside P-Model keyboardist Yasumi Tanaka, who appears in the track .
• 5 "Tonight" was also included in the compilation "TECHNOLOID 〜JAPANESE 80's NEW WAVE SAMPLER〜" (which also includes the P-Model song "Art Mania"). was also included in the compilation "Impossibles! ~ 80's JAPANESE PUNK & NEW WAVE" (which also includes the "Countless Answers" version of the P-Model song "Atom-Siberia").
• 6 Released with the magazine "ING, O! No.5". Act name given as "Michiro Endo + Susumu Hirasawa + Korechika Kitada + Jun Inui". The only track was also included in the compilation "KI-GA KI-GA KI-KYO".
• 7 Rerecording of the P-Model song of the same name from the album "Scuba". with new arrangement & guitar lines.
• 8 Fellow P-Model member Shunichi Miura also plays keyboards on all tracks.
• 9 Those tracks were also included in the compilations "TWIN ～ VERY BEST COLLECTION" and "TEICHIKU WORKS – 30th anniversary".
• 10 The tracks with vocals were included in the compilations "TWIN ～ VERY BEST COLLECTION", "TOGAWA LEGEND – SELF SELECT BEST & RARE 1979～2008" and "TEICHIKU WORKS – 30th anniversary". The title track was included in the compilation "Sanagika no Onna: Mika Ninagawa Selection" and its music video was included in the 2002 and 2012 reissues of the video "Yapoos Keikaku" and the compilation "TEICHIKU WORKS – 30th anniversary". All tracks exclusive to this release are included in reissues of Shōwa Kyōnen.
• 11 "Memento Mori" was also included in the compilation "GROOVIN' Shōwa! 7 ～ Romantist".
• 12 This song was included in the compilation "TOGAWA LEGEND – SELF SELECT BEST & RARE 1979～2008".
• 13 Remixed with fellow P-Model member Hajime Fukuma.
• 14 A cover of a P-Model song of the same name from the album Perspective (the original's lyrics were written by Hirasawa and Tanaka and the music was composed by Tanaka). The entire album's lyrics are sung in the PEVO language, which was created by the band (a dictionary can be found in the booklet) and some of them sung by a pitch-shifted Hirasawa, who wasn't credited for either lyrics or vocals, but was credited for production as "Volquice Proladuke".
• 15 "Mother" was included in the compilation "Best Collection ~ Meccha Best".
• 16 Hirasawa would later re-record this song 5 times, with himself on vocals.
• 17 Co-written with Yuiko. Co-Credited under the pseudonym "Shirō Sakata".
• 18 Also included in the album .
• 19 Credited as "Volquice Proladuke".

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3. Web site: Rafael Antonio Pineda. 22 March 2016. New Berserk TV Anime's Cast, Staff, July Premiere Unveiled. Anime News Network. 26 March 2016.
4. 長州の名テーマ"パワーホール"はたった1日で完成した！. Choshu's Famous Theme "Power Hall" was Completed in Just 1 Day!. Best Mook Series 72 — 新日本プロレス [New Japan Pro-Wrestling] SUPER BOOK!. 3. KK Bestsellers. September 1996. 90.
5. Web site: 殺意の重奏. Murderous Ensemble. ドラマ詳細データ [Detailed Drama Data]. テレビドラマデータベース [TV Drama Database]. Furusaki Yasunari. 9 March 2019.
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8. Book: Interview with Susumu Hirasawa － Satoshi Kon, “A Loving Unkindness”. Dream Fossil: The Complete Stories of Satoshi Kon. New York. Vertical. 19 May 2015. 978-1-941220-24-5.
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10. Web site: 平野美歌. 16 September 2016. でもAriaのシングルは、現状の在庫がなくなった時点で、販売終了になる予定です。既にお持ちの方、当時の記念パッケージということで大切にして頂けると幸いです！ ｳﾌﾞｹﾞ. hirano mika (@hira_non). https://archive.today/20210406235026/https://twitter.com/hira_non/status/776733918603071488. 6 April 2021. live. Twitter. 6 April 2021.
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