| demo | |
| Cover: | P-MODEL - demo.jpeg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | P-Model |
| Recorded: | 1979 Electro Sound Tokyo |
| Genre: | Post-punk, electropunk, electronic rock, new wave, technopop |
| Length: | 6:31 |
| Label: | DIW Records, SYUN |
| Producer: | Susumu Hirasawa |
| Prev Title: | OPENING SE 1992 |
| Prev Year: | 1992 |
| Next Title: | SAKSIT North Passage MIX |
| Next Year: | 1996 |
P-Model made a demo in 1979 to obtain a recording contract; it features 2 songs, each one being composed by Susumu Hirasawa and Yasumi Tanaka, P-Model's main songwriters at the time. The band negotiated with 8 record labels, in the end, they chose to sign a contract with Warner-Pioneer,[1] all P-MODEL releases from 1979 to 1981 (3 albums and 3 singles) were handled by Warner-Pioneer, including In A Model Room, the album where both of these songs were included. Hirasawa also gave a copy to Plastics keyboardist Masahide Sakuma after a Plastics show after asking him to produce In a Model Room, which Sakuma accepted.[2] Due to the demo nature of the recordings, they are rawer and punkier than the studio recorded versions. The demo was released by Hirasawa's SYUN label in 1994 as a bonus for those who bought both OOPARTS and Pause,[3] the first release of the SYUN label (due to its nature, the demo received a catalogue number outside of the standard numbering convention of the SYUN label). The demo was remastered by Hirasawa and re-released on the Ashu-on [Sound Subspecies] in the solar system box set on 10 May 2002; it was put on CD 13, with SCUBA RECYCLE, Air on the Wiring and the In a Model Room outtake WHITE SHOES.[4]