With the tapes mysteriously showing up in the Universal vault recently, the band was finally able to mix and re-sequence the album the way they wanted it to sound. Released before the band could remix or rerecord it, as the label had run out of money, and the master tapes had gone missing, the band has always considered the original mix of "Oriental Beat" to be a "disaster". "Oriental Beat"'s original engineer Peter Wooliscroft was not a rock producer, and according to HANOI ROCKS's manager Richard Bishop, he "tried to mix the album to sound like SPANDAU BALLET". Bassist Sami Yaffa called it "the worst-sounding album of our career" and Monroe said that "the producer of the album didn't have a clue what the band was about, and his mix of the album was horribly wrong". HANOI ROCKS drummer Gyp Casino says of "Oriental Beat": "Back in the days we gave heart, soul and a bit of pain to make this record something else" but the sound of the album, originally released in 1982, did not match their efforts at the time. in 1981, for 200 pounds a day, "Oriental Beat" was made during the height of the British punk and new wave movement, when the band was hanging out with everyone from Phil Lynott to THE DAMNED. Vocalist Michael Monroe calls this release "the longest and slowest album recording project ever," stating that "40 years in the making, it's not just a remix, but the REAL MIX supervised and approved by HANOI ROCKS".
"Oriental Beat" by HANOI ROCKS gets the redux treatment, officially mixed and revived from the original sessions, and released on March 17 on deluxe vinyl and CD.ĭubbed the "re(al)mix", this 40th anniversary edition was mixed by Petri Majuri at E-Studios in Finland in collaboration with the band.
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