COMIN' AFTER MOTOCOMPO

1997 originally a private cassette then a TiNSTAR cassette release (MSR-TIN C-014)

-A side- 24HOURS ONLINE FREERIDER YOU THINK YOU'RE A MAN

-B side- CYDER COMING AGE

Dr.Usui, chiho, Daisuke (who has departed) and His@ya are the members. The combimation of the old synth sound and Chiho's cute voice is incredibly appealing. My cassette used a Jack Kirby trading card to stiffen the cover.

FOREVER LASTING JOKE

(*) ? originally a private cassette then TiNSTAR cassette MSR-TIN C-019

I don't have this one except for the first track on the below compilation

various artists

TOKYO NEW WAVE OF NEW WAVE '98

includes
24 HOURS ON LINE
YOU THINK YOU'RE A MAN
DAT1

these tracks in their original arrangements seem to be only available on CD here. If you can find one this is a very important compilation CD that showcases the Neo New Wave sound

TINY LACK'N'ROLL

99.08 TiNSTAR 7" MSR-TIN-010 CD5: MSR-TIN-014

• FREERIDER
• LIGHT'S OUT
• TINY LACK'N'ROLL
• GIRL HUNT

The CD single is one of those cool 2 color clear items. I'm not sure many or any of these earlier items are still available. Great stuff.

DESKTOP ROMANCER 99.12.10 perfect picnic/flavour of sound cd: PER-0003 2001 reissue cd: MTCA-1007 (same contents but on Poplot with imporved cover art) 24HOURS ONLINE CANDY-POP-CORN DRIVE MY CAR SKI DAT 2 YOU THINK YOU'RE A MAN COMING AGE

These are new 1999 recordings of the old tunes engineered by Yasuhiko Terada who was one of YMO's engineers and continues to do fine stuff at his Think Sync Integral studios and indy label which. Mitsuo Koike also from the former YMO team mastered the album. The arrangements are more tight and the recordings very clean. They sound wonderful but one can also debate that some elusive quality is lost compared to the earlier home made recordings. Still I'd highly reccomend it to fans of technopop as one of the very best recent albums in that style. Its one of those things that one can debate but at the end its still really good. From this point on I think everything should be easily available.

take me to your party (@)00.05.05 polystar/poplot CD5: MTCA-1001 TAKE ME TO YOUR PARTY DETECTIVE TAKE ME TO YOUR PARTY [ EXTENDED VERSION ] REMIXED BY FANTASTIC EXPLOSION LET'S SING OUT " TAKE ME TO YOUR PARTY " LET'S SING OUT " DETECTIVE " Lets Sing Out are like Kareoke versions I have a problem where before the tracks were both techno nerdy and cute, this one is just sort of cute but juvenile. Not that its bad, just a bit of an "edge" is gone.They did get their own sublabel, Poplot.

DISCOTHEQUE MURDER

00.08.23 POPLOT/POLYSTAR cd5: MTCA-1002

• DISCOTHEQUE MURDER
• COLOR THIS WORLD-TECHNICOLOR VER.
• DISCOTHEQUE MURDER/REMIXED BY GEODEZIK
• LET'S SING OUT " DISCOTHEQUE MURDER"
• LET'S SING OUT " COLOR THIS WORLD"
  

There is some sort of old video game theme here

KRACKERJACK PARTY

00.11.22 POPLOT/POLYSTAR cd: MTCA-1003

1. TAKE ME TO YOUR PARTY
2. LISTEN
3. LACK'N'ROLL HIGHSCHOOL
4. STONE COLD FEVER
5. COLOR THIS WORLD-TECHNICOLOR VER.
6. WWW.MOTOCOMPO.COM
7. DETECTIVE
8. SNACK MUSIC
9. SECOND HIGH
10. DISCOTHEQUE MURDER

This is Motocompo's first full album. Its new material including the last 2 Poplot singles. I was excited yet also worried a bit based on the singles. While still a lot of stylish fun there is a lack :) of astripped down edge that the early recordings have and also a lack of the percision and balance of the Terada re-recordings. They've clearly musically developed on this album but some of what was really enjoyable is gone. Things have gotten more slick and complexly arranged but less focused and magical. Still even though dissapointed I don't want to say this is a bad album. Its quite fun, I was just hoping a lot for them as the earlier stuff was pretty exciting and amusing. Includes some multimedia and online stuff worth checking out.

various artists

MUTANT POP TRIANGLE

1. DANCER OF COMPUTING/MOTOCOMPO
2. 33333.3. ..3..333... /Our Hour
3. SCANFORM/GEODEZIK
4. DANCER OF COMPUTING (Our Hour Heavy P-Funk MIX)
5. 33333.3. ..3..333... (GEODEZIKBasic 64 MIX)
6. SCANFORM (MOTOCOMPO LACK`N`ROLL MIX)

This was apparently a Poplot label compilation with new material

Motocompo appeared on the tribute album Plastics Children covering Delicious

In 2000 they appeared on the Fuji TV show Factory who have some great live video and audio clips online here

(*)A live version of Boyhunt from that show was released on a live CD of the show's highlights in early 2000 called Factory CD 2 (Triad COCP50244)

(*)A track or remix called All Summer Long is on the 2000 compilation New Electron (LD&K)