With the tapes mysteriously showing up in the Universal vault recently, the band was finally able to mix and resequence 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' manager Richard Bishop he "tried to mix the album to sound like Spandau Ballet". Hanoi Rocks' original drummer Gyp Casino says of Oriental Beat that: "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.īassist Sami Yaffa called it "the worst sounding album of our career" and Michael 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".
Recorded in London, UK in 1981, for 200 pounds a day, Oriental Beat was made during the height of the British punk + 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 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". The CD and vinyl come with the song lyrics, checked and approved by Michael Monroe.ĭubbed the "re(al) mix", this 40th anniversary edition was mixed by Petri Majuri at E-Studios in Finland in collaboration with the band. Oriental Beat by Hanoi Rocks gets the redux treatment, officially mixed and revived from the original sessions, and released on March 17th on deluxe vinyl, CD and digital formats.
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