PRMX

1st Remix Album / Stereo

Epic ESCB 2060
ESYB 7167 (Mini-Disc)

Released December 31, 1999

Highest Chart Ranking: #28
Weeks on Chart: 4

Puffy's first remix album. Not too much else to say; in general, those who did the remixing stuck to the popular singles, aside from the remix of "Always Dreamin' About You," which is a definite highlight of the record. Some of the remixes keep the basic structure of the song more-or-less intact ("Circuit no Musume/the readymade JBL mix '99," "Kore ga Watashi no Ikirumichi/the readymade;darlin'of discotheque track," "Asia no Junshin/Sgt. Tosh Mix"), while other songs are nearly unrecognizable ("Nehorina Hahorina/Bad Attitude Mix"). The rest fall somewhere in-between.

The disc, like most of Puffy's early work, is now out of print.

This was actually the first Japanese Puffy album I owned; it was given to me as a Christmas present by a friend. However, I'm not a fan of remixes in general, so this (and, by extentsion, PRMX Turbo) gets played the least by me.

Track Listing

1. Circuit no Musume / the readymade JBL mix '99 (words & music: Tamio Okuda/remixed by Yasuharu Konishi) (5:14)
2. Kore ga Watashi no Ikirumichi / the readymade;darlin'of discotheque track (words & music: Tamio Okuda/remixed by Yasuharu Konishi) (5:32)
3. Nagisa ni Matsuwaru EtCetera / Take Me To The Disco (words: Yosui Inoue/music: Tamio Okuda/remixed by Fantastic Plastic Machine) (7:21)
4. Ai no Shirushi / Captain Funk's Puffy de Samba Mix (words & music: Masamune Kusano/remix and additional production by Captain Funk [OE Tatsuya]) (5:39)
5. Talalan / Cubismo Grafico Obrigado Mix (words: Puffy & Tamio Okuda/music: Andy Sturmer/remix and additional production by Gakuji Matsuda [cubismo grafico]) (6:22)
6. Asia no Junshin / Malcolm McLaren CD Mix (words: Yosui Inoue/music: Tamio Okuda/remixed by Malcolm McLaren) (3:31)
7. Always Dreamin' About You / Prophets of Dream Mix (words: Linda Herrick/music: Tamio Okuda/remixed by Kan Takagi+K.U.D.O.) (7:11)
8. Asia no Junshin / Sgt. Tosh Mix (words: Inoue Yosui/music: Tamio Okuda/remixed by Toshi Nakanishi) (4:45)
9. Yume no Tameni / EJ's Pizza Man Mix (words & music: Tamio Okuda/remixed by Freddy Fresh) (5:39)
10. Mother / H.W. Mother Train Mix (words & music: Tamio Okuda/remixed by Hiroshi Watanabe) (5:33)
11. Nehorina Hahorina / Bad Attitude Mix (words & music: Tortoise Matsumoto/remixed by Bad Attitude [Nao+Ike Nakamura]) (7:12)
12. Puffy de Rumba / Watermelon Remix (words: Puffy/music: Yoriko Tamura/remixed by Watermelon) (5:23)

Notes:

• The subtitle of the album is "Puffy Re-Mix Project: Licensed to Skill."
• The promotional video for the album is available on Clips.
• "Circuit no Musume (the readymade JBL mix '99)" and "Ai no Shirushi (Captain Funk's Puffy de Samba Mix)" are the only two tracks from this album to have been released in the U.S. (to date): the former is a bonus track on the U.S. release of Spike, and the latter is on the An Illustrated History compilation.
• "Ai no Shirushi (Captain Funk's Puffy de Samba Mix)" contains a sample of Fatboy Slim's "Everybody Needs A Carnival." It also ends with a sample of "Puffy de Samba".
• "Talalan (Cubismo Grafico Obrigado Mix)" contains a sample of Yumi counting off "1, 2, 3, 4," as well as a sample of Ami and Yumi shouting. Both samples were taken from "Robot Proto-type Version 0.2."

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