Darker Than Darkness: Style 93
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Released | June 23, 1993 September 19, 2002 (digital remaster) September 5, 2007 (remaster) | |||
Recorded | February 20Tokyo | -April 30, 1993 at Sound Sky Studio in|||
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Length | 61:56 | |||
Language | Japanese, English | |||
Label | Victor | |||
Producer | Hitoshi Hiruma and Buck-Tick | |||
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Darker Than Darkness -Style 93- is the seventh studio album by the Japanese rock band Buck-Tick. It was released on June 23, 1993, through Victor Entertainment.[1] The album peaked at number two on the Oricon chart,[2] became a certified gold seller by July 1993,[3] and subsequently sold 213,260 copies.[4] Darker Than Darkness -Style 93- was digitally remastered and re-released on September 19, 2002, with two bonus tracks. It was remastered and re-released again on September 5, 2007. "Dress" was remixed and used as the opening theme for the anime Trinity Blood (2005),[5] this version was also released as a single. The album was named one of the top albums from 1989 to 1998 in a 2004 issue of the music magazine Band Yarouze.[6]
Track listing
All lyrics are written by Atsushi Sakurai, except where noted; all music is composed by Hisashi Imai, except where noted
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Kirameki no Naka de..." (キラメキの中で...) | 4:41 |
2. | "Deep Slow" | 4:32 |
3. | "Yuuwaku" (誘惑; music written by Hidehiko Hoshino) | 5:58 |
4. | "Ao no Sekai" (青の世界) | 4:57 |
5. | "Kamikaze" (神風; lyrics written by Imai) | 4:45 |
6. | "Zero" | 4:05 |
7. | "Dress" (ドレス; music written by Hoshino) | 6:22 |
8. | "Lion" | 4:31 |
9. | "Madman Blues -Minashigo no Yuuutsu-" (Madman Blues -ミナシ児ノ憂鬱-; lyrics written by Imai) | 5:12 |
10. | "Die" | 4:34 |
93. | "D.T.D" (Hidden Track) | 6:42 |
Total length: | 61:56 |
No. | Title | Length |
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11. | "D.T.D" | 6:42 |
12. | "Dress" ("Aux Send Mix") | 7:41 |
13. | "Die" (live) | 5:25 |
Personnel
- Atsushi Sakurai - lead vocals
- Hisashi Imai - lead guitar, backing vocals, lead vocals on "Madman Blues"
- Hidehiko Hoshino - rhythm guitar, keyboards, synthesizers, backing vocals, piano
- Yutaka Higuchi - bass
- Toll Yagami - drums, percussion
Additional performers
- Rie Hamada - backing vocals on "Dress"
- Kazutoshi Yokoyama - backing vocals on "Dress" and "Kirameki No Naka De"
Production
- Hitoshi Hiruma - producer, recording, mixing
- Buck-Tick - producers
- Osamu Takagi; Takafumi Muraki - executive producers
- Shigetoshi Naitoh; Takahiro Uchida - engineer
- Hirohito Fujishima; Katsumi Moriya - assistant engineers
- Ken Sakaguchi - cover art, graphic design
- M. Hasui - photography
Notes
- On the originally released 1993 CD, after track ten it skips to track #75, titled "Not T Dise", after that the CD skips to track #84, titled "Kirameki no Naka de" and finally after that, it skips to track #93, titled "D-T-D". The names of these hidden bonus tracks were only given in a magazine published at the time. The digital remaster release includes "D-T-D" (credited; lyrics: Sakurai, music: Imai), but not "Not T Dise" or "Kirameki no Naka de".[7]
References
- ^ "Darker Than Darkness -style93-". jame-world.com. Retrieved 2011-04-13.
- ^ "BUCK-TICKのアルバム売り上げランキング". oricon.co.jp. Retrieved 2011-04-27.
- ^ "月次認定作品 認定年月:1993年 7月" (in Japanese). RIAJ. Retrieved 2017-11-04.
- ^ "1993年 アルバム年間TOP100" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2016-03-03.
- ^ "Buck-Tick". JAME World. April 26, 2013. Retrieved 2022-05-09.
- ^ "Top 44 Albums from 1989 - 1998". jame-world.com. 2004-05-09. Retrieved 2013-03-08.
- ^ "Darker Than Darkness -Style 93- review". Buck-Tick Zone.com. Archived from the original on 2012-02-26. Retrieved 2012-01-29.[unreliable source?]
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