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[Gotz]

Does anyone listen to Susumu Hirasawa? I adore his music, but can never find anyone else who likes him or listens to anything outside of his soundtrack work. :( I've tried the subreddit, but you know how that place is.

[Amlux]

Does anyone listen to Susumu Hirasawa? I adore his music, but can never find anyone else who likes him or listens to anything outside of his soundtrack work. :( I've tried the subreddit, but you know how that place is.

Not only do I love Hirasawa, but the song you posted is my favorite song of his! (And one of my all-time favorite songs ever.) I can't listen to it without feeling like I'm having a transcendent experience being at one with all of creation.

I will give a shout out to the album he released under the 核P-MODEL (Kaku P-Model) name, named 回=回 (Kai=Kai). It sounds even more like his solo stuff than other P-Model albums. My favorite track is the closer:



I actually first discovered Hirasawa because I liked a lot of wacky old Japanese new wave music, including P-Model. But I like his solo work the most. The first "taste" of it I got was probably this opener from the P-Model album Perspective. You can really hear his later sound on it, but with more of the clashing sort of punk sound of his earlier music still in the background:



(Isn't that one of the most 80s/new wave album covers you've ever seen?)