Susumu Hirasawa

Susumu Hirasawa (平沢進, Hirasawa Susumu, born April 1, 1954, registered on the following day) (nicknamed "Hirasawa" (ãƒ'ラサワ) and "Shishō" (師匠)) is a Japanese music artist and composer.

In 1965, he started playing guitar, inspired by The Ventures, and joined a band with "older people" the following year. In 1972, he enrolled at Tokyo Designer Gakuin College. From 1972 to 1978, he performed in his first band Mandrake, a progressive rock band influenced by King Crimson, Yes, Black Sabbath and Pink Floyd. In 1979 he formed a experimental/electronic rock band called P-Model, along with two former members of Mandrake and a fan of the band/close friend. They released a string of albums through the 1980s, and in 1989, Hirasawa began releasing solo work, while also continuing to work with the reactivated P-MODEL beginning in 1992. The P-MODEL project continued until 2000; in 2004 Hirasawa started a new unit known as KAKU P-MODEL, which is effectively a solo continuation of P-MODEL.

Compositions and performances

Starting with Mandrake's last years, Hirasawa has favored guitars designed specifically by Japanese instrument manufacturers (there was a movement in the early 80s were electric guitar makers moved away from mass-producing copies of foreign guitars and into original designs), most notably Tōkai Gakki's Talbo aluminum guitars, which he has said is due to him being attracted to the Talbo's unique material and design. After Tokai discontinued production and customer support for the Talbo due to financial difficulties in the mid 90s, Hirasawa requested Fernandes Guitars in 1994 to make him a guitar of his design called PHOTON, a Talbo-shaped guitar with a wooden body. In 2004, Hirasawa requested TALBO Secret FACTORY, a manufacturer of Talbos created in 1996 by the IKEBE music store with HISASHI and CAP-iNA, musicians who also liked the Talbo and wanted to continue to use it, to build a Talbo of his own design, called ICE-9 (named after the material of the same name from Kurt Vonnegut's novel Cat's Cradle), which Hirasawa used to make an album to showcase it. Hirasawa has continued to work with the TALBO Secret FACTORY, requesting the conversion of one of his older Tōkai models into the ASTRO in 2011, adopting the HISASHI designed EVO 0101Z in 2012, and asking for the renewal of the PHOTON after two decades of usage.

Hirasawa has used Amiga computers extensively in his work, starting out with CG production in 1987, and later on using applications such as SCALA, Bars and Pipes, and OctaMED in the production of his music; he stopped using Amigas in his live shows on the LIMBO-54 shows of 2003 and on his albums with the Byakkoya/Paprika albums of 2006. Hirasawa transitioned from Amigas to Microsoft Windows, using programs such as Bars'n'Pipes (an unofficial continuation of the Amiga program), Cakewalk Sonar, Synth1 and EASTWEST's line of Symphonic sounds. One of the factors that set him apart from other Japanese electronic artists is ever-changing production techniques. For 2001's SOLAR RAY album, his recording studio was outfitted to be powered completely by 2 solar energy-capting panels. Since then, Hirasawa's works have been recorded with solar energy, although he has since added 2 more panels to his studio. To reduce pollution, Hirasawa also transitioned to working exclusively with software synthesizers.

His subject matter can be equally unusual. A constant source of inspiration for his music has come from Thailand. The concept behind his 1995 album Sim City was drawn from his experiences traveling there, and more specifically, from Thai transsexuals. Guest Thai vocalists participate throughout that and subsequent albums, including 1996's SIREN, which was also a concept album based on Thailand. As for his lyrical inspiration, Hirasawa references the philosophies of yin and yang, his travels and the principles of nature vs. machines. Hirasawa has also been inspired by the works of Carl Jung, Hayao Kawai, Kenji Miyazawa, Kurt Vonnegut, Theodore Sturgeon, George Orwell, Frank Herbert, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and Nikola Tesla.

Hirasawa occasionally stages interactive live performances. They merge computer graphics with his music to tell interactive stories, and involve heavy use of computers, particularly Amiga systems, motion capture cameras and video projectors. The flow of each live show is determined by audience participation; for example, Interactive Live Show 2000 Philosopher's Propeller was formatted as a maze, and the audience was allowed to choose which path to follow. Sometimes, audience participation plays a part in the performed music, as it did in Interactive Live Show 2000. He provided the phone numbers to four cellular phones during one song, and the audience was allowed to call the numbers to have him play the corresponding ringtone. This provided an improvised harmony between the background music and the ringing phones.

Hirasawa's live music is based on samples he activates with various hand-crafted sampler machines, pre-recorded tracks without vocals, and no regular backup performers. For the Hirasawa Energy Works â€" Solar Live LIVE SOLAR RAY concerts, he used solar power and a power-generating wheel, inspired by bicycles, to power his electronic equipment. DVDs are available of his innovative award-winning live performances via his website (and ordering through TESLAKITE).

During the PHONON2555 concert, he had two backup performers for the first time since 2000 (discounting those who participated as part of the plots of his Interactive Live Shows).

Activism

In 1988, Hirasawa sold a Cassette Book at a flea market in Yoyogi for charity, it contained 3 New Age songs composed specifically for that release and came with a 36-page long booklet written by Hirasawa that chronicles his self-analysis of his dreams and reality; all profits were donated to the Human Earth â€" Awakening Village (人é–"大地・めざめの里, Ningen Daichi Mezame no Sato) volunteering welfare facility for the mentally ill in Gunma Prefecture, which gave Hirasawa counseling during the production of the P-MODEL album KARKADOR.

Hirasawa spoke out against "the nations that are headed towards carnage while ignoring international law" and the actions of the Japanese government in aiding such actions. Specifically, he pointed to the American response after the September 11, 2001 attack, which he believes to involve excessive murder of innocent people. As a result of his convictions, Hirasawa has offered free downloads of his music, which he hopes will be used as tools of objection. One of the these downloads is a 2003 version of the 1994 song LOVE SONG, a song about children in the battlefield; the other is High-Minded Castle, a song about a man that can not know the truth and true background through media, while he tries to face the real tragedy on the other side of the world; the latter was taken from Hirasawa's BLUE LIMBO album, which showcases an anti-war, anti-brutality message influenced by the U.S. government's retaliation against terrorist attacks.

In the aftermath of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami and the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, Hirasawa started travelling around the country with a Geiger counter, measuring the radiation levels and reporting them in his Twitter account. Around the same time, Hirasawa started making his own homemade yogurt from soy milk, reporting on the progress of his yogurt-making bacteria on his Twitter account, with him updating often at odd hours of the night in Japan Standard Time; In an update, he said that he'd wake up his followers at 3:30 am again to update them. On June 24, 2011, at 3 PM, a post was made on NO ROOM by a person who called itself "The short-term contract worker of parade punk, Stealth Man", the post included what this person called "My debut/retirement work", a song titled "Nuclear Power" (原子力, Genshiryoku), a remix of the P-MODEL song "BOAT" made in the style of "The Aggregated Past â€" Kangen Shugi 8760 Hours" project with the song's lyrics changed to protest against Japan's use of nuclear power and to criticize the government and the media; the song and its lyrics were available as a free download on the condition that users agree with the statement written on the download button; which was "I believe that this work is by Stealth Man and will download it unquestioningly", the song could be freely distributed, unless it was for profit, or with its sound source altered, distribution ended at 3 pn on June 29, 2011. At the same time, Hirasawa updated his Twitter account telling a story where Stealth Man had struck Hirasawa in the back of his head with a blunt object on June 23, 2011, at 3:30 am; when he woke up, his hands were bound and his wallpaper was changed to include a boat and the katakana ス was written on it. Hirasawa also claimed that he couldn't take down the song due to Stealth Man hacking that section of NO ROOM with what Hirasawa thought was a Stuxnet-like virus, which led to server maintenance of the TESLAKITE online shop; Hirasawa updated his Twitter account with "I will refrain from making vulgar remarks. I'll be noticed by him. Feign complete ignorance.", he also described the song as a "Hirasawa rip-off". Hirasawa later claimed on his Twitter account that, as distribution of Stealth Man's song came to an end, Hirasawa was attacked by Stealth Man once again, this time, Hirasawa stayed awake and made Stealth Man trip over and fall while he escaped. Hirasawa also took a disc from his pocket, containing the instrumental version of Stealth Man's song, which he posted on NO ROOM using similar terms and conditions as Stealth Man, with the statement written on the download button being "I can manage just fine without Stealth Man" and the file's distribution ending at 3 pm on July 4, 2011. Hirasawa let the song be used on Japanese karaoke service provider Xing's JOYSOUND online song library, crediting Stealth Man with the vocals and lyrics of the song.

Personal life

Hirasawa has an older brother, Yūichi Hirasawa (平沢裕一) (who also goes by the moniker "YOU1"), an artist who assisted Hirasawa in acquiring expensive instruments on the Mandrake days (he made an appearance on Mandrake's last show, running on a treadmill, or "roomrunner"), was P-Model's art director for the band's first 9 years of existence and wrote the lyrics for the songs "For Kids" & "Sunshine City" (from In a Model Room). His only performance credit was as backing vocalist on Hirasawa's solo song "Rocket". In 2013, Yūichi opened the café bar "Gazio" in Tsukuba, Susumu has donated some memorabilia to the establishment (equipment, costumes, stage props) which have been used to adorn it. Some of the drinks served on Gazio are titled after Susumu's songs. Gazio occasionally holds special events by P-Model members and associates. Susumu prepared a remix EP to be sold exclusively through the establishment, Yūichi made the artwork for it, and has since done artwork for some of Susumu's publications.

During the Mandrake days, Hirasawa was a part-time carrier for a Pepsi warehouse and a fruits and vegetables market. In 1978, he applied for a part-time lecturer position at Yamaha, since Hirasawa was the only person that applied for that position, he got the job, and taught at a synthesizer class until 1983, through these lectures, Hirasawa met various musicians that would later collaborate with.

A vegetarian, Hirasawa doesn't like meat, calling it "unappetizing and gross" and saying that it "makes me tired and makes me throw up". Hirasawa grows some of his food (as part of a garden he tends to) in a solar energy-powered house in Yoyogi, where he currently lives with two pet cats, Kaki (柿) and Tebin (テãƒ"ン).

Discography

Mandrake

P-MODEL

Shun/Syun

Original albums

Live and Remix-Remake albums

• 1 ^ Artist given as "Susumu Hirasawa and KAKU P-MODEL".

Other releases

• 1 ^ It has never been re-issued, although one of the songs was rerecorded for Water in Time and Space.
• 2 ^ This is a series of recordings of a weekly FM Gunma Broadcasting Co, Ltd. half-hour radio show that Hirasawa hosted. It lasted 39 broadcasts, divided in 12 volumes; which were released in sets of 4.
• 3 ^ Although this is considered a P-MODEL release (with 2 of its 4 files being credited to P-MODEL), it includes one Susumu Hirasawa song (the remaining file is credited to 4-D mode2, a group heavily associated with P-MODEL and Hirasawa, with two of its three members being P-MODEL members at some point).
• 4 ^ 3 part release, with parts 1 and 2 being named "Audio File to Honor the Hunter" and "Winter Sunlight Conversion Example".
• 5 ^ The track "Ruktun or Die" was a limited time offer, and was taken out of sale in January 2002.
• 6 ^ Five of the seven ringtones were released by twenty2product on their website for free under the name "keitai".
• 7 ^ It was a limited time offer, and was taken out of NO ROOM in June 29, 2011, although re-distribution was allowed. Comes with lyrics.
• 8 ^ It was a limited time offer, and was taken out of NO ROOM in July 4, 2011, although re-distribution was allowed.
• 9 ^ It was a limited time offer.

Soundtracks

Hirasawa has appeared as a musical guest on various Japanese TV and radio shows (sometimes with P-MODEL) and some of his songs that were not made with the intention of being BGM have been used to this end.

• 1 ^ A jingle for a radio/TV/cassette recorder combo. Performed with Yasumi Tanaka. Broadcast 1980. Never officially released.
• 2 ^ Titled Power Hall (ãƒ'ワーホール, Pawā Hōru), the name became a sort of brand for ChōshÅ«. Writing is credited to "Hanmyō Ibo", a play on words with the Japanese for "tiger beetle" (Hirasawa's favorite insect) and "wart". Performance is credited to "ZZZ". Disowned by Hirasawa. First released on an obscure 1980 vinyl record, later included on various wrestler entrance theme compilations, such as "Wrestling Q", which includes two covers of other wrestlers' entrance themes by Hirasawa. Various artists have covered the song, including Ken Ishii.
• 3 ^ A collection of ten assorted commercial jingles for stores and products. 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.
• 4 ^ Writing and performance are credited to "Yoshio Furukai". Out of the album's eleven tracks, "Furukai" is only present on the title track.
• 5 ^ A month before the release of the first episode, Polydor released a "Making of" tape titled Detonator Orgun 0, where a Hirasawa interview is included. They also released a Music Special disc with the opening & ending themes of the first episode.
• 6 ^ A fantasy manga by Orgun writer Hideki Kakinuma. The soundtrack would be more accurately described as a commissioned Image EP.
• 7 ^ A made for Television documentary originally broadcast in 1992 and later re-edited for home video release. Hirasawa appears in the TV edit riding 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～World of Susumu Hirasawa Soundtracks compilations, it was later released with the rest of the soundtrack on Disc 11 of the HALDYN DOME box set.
• 8 ^ A "spectacle show" summer attraction at the Parque España in Shima. When it premiered, the soundtrack could be only bought on the gift shops at the park.
• 9 ^ 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 the Syun track "Kun Mae #4" from the "Kun Mae on a Calculation" album from 1996) was originally released on "Illegal Dumping" (named "Densha"), it was later released with other twenty2product collaborations and remaining tracks on Disc 16 of the HALDYN DOME box set (named "densha").
• 10 ^ An Artdink PlayStation RPG. Hirasawa only composed and performed the opening theme: "The Man Who Knows the Stars" (星ã‚'知る者, Hoshi wo Shiru Mono); it was originally released on "From Hirasawa: Solo Songs Not on CD", a live performance was included on the PHONON 2553 VISION DVD, an alternate version (named "2010 version") was later released with other remaining tracks on Disc 16 of the HALDYN DOME box set.
• 11 ^ A looping presentation about alternative energy, part of the "Hirasawa Energy Works" project. The soundtrack has never had an official standalone release; the only kind of sound played on the short was originally released on Hirasawa's PHANTOM NOTES website, recorded during a surge of "Surplus Power" (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").
• 12 ^ 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 (which is composed of essays published on FAMIGA).
• 13 ^ The soundtrack has never had an official standalone release; the only kind of sound played on the short was originally released on LIVE Byakkoya â€" 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").
• 14 ^ The soundtrack has never had an official standalone release.
• 15 ^ Hirasawa only composed and performed the opening theme: "Sign"; and an alternate version that was also the ending theme: "Sign-2".
• 16 ^ 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.
• 17 ^ 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.
• 18 ^ The Japanese home video release of the film includes a live performance of "Aria" from Hirasawa's "PHONON2555" concert tour (when that tour's DVD was released, this same performance was included, but with alternative angles overlaid on top of the version of this DVD). 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.
• 19 ^ As of 2011, production on the film has been put on hold for financial reasons; it is not known if Hirasawa has started work on the film yet.

Compilations

Singles/free MP3 downloads

This list also includes a set of purchasable MP3s that promote their main album.

Videos

• 1 ^ This tape contains an AMIGA animation made by Hirasawa set to "Wood, Wind and Water Music" from "CHARITY ORIGINAL TAPE BY SUSUMU HIRASAWA" and a monologue spoken by the "Say" AMIGA program detailing the reasons for P-MODEL's Freezing/hiatus.
• 2 ^ Instead of containing a live show, this series of tapes contain experimental videos/Desk Top Movies based around Hirasawa's music.

As KAKU P-MODEL

• 1 ^ Artist given as "Susumu Hirasawa and KAKU P-MODEL".

Other projects

• 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

• 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).
• 5 ^ "Tonight" was also included in the compilation "TECHNOLOID 〜JAPANESE 80's NEW WAVE SAMPLER〜" (which also includes the P-MODEL song "ART MANIA"); Stock (ストック, Sutokku) 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 â€" 30th anniversary".
• 10 ^ Lyrics co-written with Masami Orimo. 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 as a standalone MP3 release for Christmas 2014.
• 11 ^ The tracks with vocals were included in the compilations "TWIN ～ VERY BEST COLLECTION", "TOGAWA LEGEND â€" SELF SELECT BEST & RARE 1979～2008" and "TEICHIKU WORKS â€" 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 â€" 30th anniversary".
• 12 ^ "Memento Mori" was also included in the compilation "GROOVIN' Shōwa! 7 ～ Romantist".
• 13 ^ This song was included in the compilation "TOGAWA LEGEND â€" SELF SELECT BEST & RARE 1979～2008".
• 14 ^ A rerecording/remix of the P-MODEL song of the same name from the album big body; album also includes an a capella alternatively named version of "LAB=01" from the album P-MODEL that doesn't use the parts written by Hirasawa and a remix of the OPENING SE that P-MODEL used on their 1992 shows.
• 15 ^ Remixed with fellow P-MODEL member Hajime Fukuma.
• 16 ^ 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 sung by a pitch-shifted Hirasawa, who wasn't credited for either lyrics or vocals, but was credited for production as "Volquice Proladuke".
• 17 ^ Hirasawa would later re-record both songs, with him on vocals, for the album TECHNIQUE OF RELIEF. "Mother" was included in the compilation "Best Collection ~ Meccha Best".
• 18 ^ Hirasawa would later re-record this song 5 times, with him on vocals.
• 19 ^ Co-written with Yuiko. Co-Credited with "Shirō Sakata" (Hirasawa under a pseudonym)
• 20 ^ Also included in the album "Crystal" (結晶, Kesshō).
• 21 ^ Credited as "Volquice Proladuke".

Publications

• Landsale â€" Record Copy Full Score (with Yasumi Tanaka & Katsuhiko Akiyama). Model House & Warner-Pioneer, 1980
• Another Papers. Model House & Personal Pulse (independent fan club), 1983
• Moire Club (official fanclub newsletter). Model House, 1985â€"1989 (12 volumes)
• Hirasawa Bypass (official fanclub newsletter). I3 Promotion, 1989â€"1996 (19 volumes)
• P-Model. I3 Promotion, 1992
• Syumatsu no Kajitsu Mokuroku (終末の果実目録, End-Time Fruit Catalog). Disk Union, 1992
• Utage no Shiori (宴の栞, Bookmark's Banquet) two 16-page booklets: Kami (上, Upper) & Shimo (下, Lower). DIW (Disk Union) & SYUN, 1994
• tokyo paranesian. I3 Promotion, 1994
• Sim City Photographs. I3 Promotion, 1995
• ura P-mania (裏Ｐ－ＭＡＮＩＡ) â€" P-model no kako ha ikaga?. Sankakuyama TsÅ«shin (independent fan club), 1995
• Interactive Live Show Vol.5. Hirasawa Bypass (I3 Promotion), 1996
• p-model 1996. Hirasawa Bypass (I3 Promotion), 1996
• Day Scanner of Susumu Hirasawa. Chaos Union & Teslakite, 1997
• Green Nerve (official fanclub newsletter). Chaos Union & Teslakite, 1997â€"present (34 volumes)
• deranged door (錯乱の扉, sakuran no tobira). Chaos Union & Marquee, 1997 (2 volumes)
• World Cell â€" History of Interactive Live Show. Chaos Union & Teslakite, 1998
• Music Industrial Wastes (音楽ç"£æ¥­å»ƒæ£„物, Ongaku Sangyō Haikibutsu). Chaos Union & SoftBank, 1999 (2 books & 1 CD-ROM)
  • P-Model Side â€" Open Source
  • Hirasawa Side â€" Ouroboros' Desktop (å"上のウロボロス, Takujō no Uroborosu)
  • Rev.2.0 (revised reissue). Chaos Union & Fascination, 2005
  • Rev.2.4 v2010 (revised digital reissue). Chaos Union & Fascination, 2010 (available as both a limited pressing of a 1000 physical DVD-ROMs and as download)
• A Young Person's Guide to Mandrake 1973â€"1978. Chaos Union & Mecano, 2006
• Live Byakkoya. Chaos Union & Teslakite, 2006
• SP-2 (mix of photography & essays). Chaos Union & Teslakite, 2008
• Near Future Never Come (来なかったè¿'未来). Chaos Union & Fascination (material originally posted on FAMIGA), 2010
• Magazoff (independent newsletter). Magazoff, 2013â€"present (3 volumes)
• From Gazio to KAKU P-MODEL â€" 20 Questions (Ｇａｚｉｏから核Ｐ－ＭＯＤＥＬへï¼'０の質問). Gazio, 2013
• Inner Groover (音のみぞ) (independent newsletter). Fascination, 2014â€"present (1 volume)

See also

• Barry Andrews
• John Barry
• David Bowie
• David Byrne
• Wendy Carlos
• Deep Forest
• Danny Elfman
• Enigma
• Brian Eno
• Robert Fripp
• Peter Gabriel
• Geinoh Yamashirogumi
• Haruomi Hosono
• Kitarō
• Clint Mansell
• Mark Mothersbaugh
• Colin Newman
• Gary Numan
• Andy Partridge
• A. R. Rahman
• Mark E. Smith
• Split Enz
• Tangerine Dream
• Isao Tomita
• Ryuichi Sakamoto
• Synergy
• Van Halen
• Vangelis
• XTC
• Zuntata

References

External links

• NO ROOM â€" The official site of Susumu Hirasawa (P-MODEL) (current website)
• HACKED MODULE of SUSUMU HIRASAWA
• Twitter account (Japanese)
• Susumu Hirasawa iTunes Japan page (Universal) (Japanese)
• SUSUMU HIRASAWA iTunes Japan page (Columbia) (Japanese)
• TESLAKITE, Susumu Hirasawa's online store
• Susumu Hirasawa discography at MusicBrainz
• Susumu Hirasawa discography at Discogs