SYUN
SYUN was a Japanese record label founded by Susumu Hirasawa in 1994. Hirasawa created the label to be able to have freedom to release some of his less commercial works (which later expanded to works by his associates, mostly members of P-MODEL, with most of the albums having Hirasawa involved in some way); the label was named after Syun, Hirasawa's experimental sampler unit, the label's logo is the cover of the Syun album SHUN・4, which was designed by Quiyoshi Inagaki. Distribution was handled by DIW Records, an independent label owned by the music store chain disk UNION. It released music sparsely, always in a pair of two (although the first release had a bonus third product if one were to order both first and second products; the third release was a similar case, although the bonus offer was two booklets; the sixth release had a bonus P-MODEL product for those who had purchased all 6 previous P-MODEL products), which were sold in record stores and through mail order. Hirasawa's direct releases were mostly material that was created years before it was released (the oldest one being from 1978). The label eventually stopped after Hirasawa/P-MODEL signed with Nippon Columbia and later on formed the Chaos Union company, giving himself more freedom to release what he wants. Hirasawa eventually released the Ashu-on [Sound Subspecies] in the solar system and HALDYN DOME box sets (alongside reissuing the P-MODEL video), reissuing most of the SYUN catalog, with most of the remaining releases being out of print since their release under the SYUN label.
| SYUN | |
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| Parent company | disk UNION |
| Founded | 1994 |
| Founder | Susumu Hirasawa |
| Status | Defunct |
| Distributor(s) | DIW Records Chaos Union (Pre P-MODEL/P-MODEL/SYUN/Fukō Project reissues) IRQ, inc. (Kotobuki reissues) MECANO (PEVO reissues) |
| Genre | Various |
| Country of origin | Japan |
Discography
| Cat. No. | Artist | Title | Format | Release Date YYYY-MM-DD |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SYUN-001 | SYUN | OOPARTS | CD | 1994-05-25 |
| SYUN-002 | P-MODEL | Pause | CD | 1994-05-25 |
| DSS-001 | P-MODEL | demo | Mini CD single | 1994-05-25 |
| SYUN-003 | P-MODEL | The Way of LIVE (LIVEの方法, LIVE no Hōhō) | CD | 1994-07-25 |
| SYUN-004 | Kotobuki Hikaru with Phnonpenh MODEL | Desk Top Hard Lock | CD | 1994-07-25 |
| SYUN-005 | Pre P-MODEL | Air On The Wiring (配線上のアリア, Haisenjō no Aria) | CD | 1994-10-22 |
| SYUN-006 | SYUN | Landscapes | CD | 1994-10-22 |
| SYUN-007 | P-MODEL | Corrective Errors〜re-mix of Fune (Corrective Errors〜re-mix of 舟) | CD | 1995-09-30 |
| SYUN-008 | Tadahiko Yokogawa | DIVE | CD | 1995-09-30 |
| SYUN-009 | P-MODEL | SCUBA RECYCLE | CD | 1995-11-30 |
| SYUN-010 | SYUN | SHUN・4 VISION (旬IV VISION) | VHS | 1995-11-30 |
| S-32580 S-32581 |
P-MODEL | SAKSIT North Passage MIX | Vinyl | 1996-02-29 |
| SYUN-011 | SYUN | Kun Mae on a Calculation (計算上のKun Mae, Keisanjō no Kun Mae) | CD | 1996-02-29 |
| SYUN-012 | Shifukudan | Chiputan (致富譚) | CD | 1996-02-29 |
| SYUN-013 | Fukō Project | How about FUKO? (不幸はいかが?, Fukō wa ika ga?) | CD | 1996-10-05 |
| SYUN-014 | PEVO | CONVEX AND CONCAVE | CD | 1996-10-05 |
| SYUN-015 | Teruo Nakano | User Unknown | CD | 1996-12-10 |
| SYUN-016 | P-MODEL | Sankai no Jintai Chizu (三界の人体地図) | VHS | 1996-12-10 |
| SYUN-017 | Tadahiko Yokogawa | solecism | CD | 1997-10-24 |