![]() 4 days ago Gig Review : Daughtry with support from Ayron Jones, Rock City, Nottingham.4 days ago Album Review : Last In Line – Jericho.4 days ago Australian pop-punks Between You & Me release new single ‘Nevermind’.3 days ago Pink Floyd Announce Activity around 50th Anniversary of The Dark Side of The Moon album release.3 days ago ELECTRIC BOYS release new single and video “I’ve Got A Feelin'”.3 days ago Grande Royale launch sixth studio album ‘Welcome to Grime Town.3 days ago Gig Review : Blaze Bayley with Absolva Unstoppable UK Tour 2023 Patriot, Crumlin.3 days ago HOST – release sprawling ambient remix of ‘Hiding By Tomorrow’ by Lustmord.3 days ago Gig Review : Black Spiders UK Tour 2023 With support from King Kraken The Patriot, Crumlin.3 days ago THY ART IS MURDER – release the second single from ‘The Aggression Sessions’ ‘Until There Is No Longer.2 days ago ELEINE – unleash new anthem ‘We Are Legion’ alongside music video details for now-pre-orderable 4th studio album »We Shall Remain.2 days ago Texas Hippie Coalition release video for ‘Hell Hounds.Get your shot of Oriental Beat as it was always meant to be. So enjoy it…Another shot of Hanoi Rocks”. Monroe says: “now, 40 years after its original release in 1982, we finally got the album sounding as great as it deserves, with no overdubs or samples,” and McCoy adds that: “It’s better now than ever. Rhythm guitarist Nasty Suicide says “only now, with stripping it down to the bare essentials and tweaking it to bring out what was really laid down it became our dream come true! THIS is what it’s all about” as this definitive edition of Oriental Beat now fully displays the ultimate arrogance and attitude which defined the band. Oriental Beat is a defining masterpiece made when Hanoi Rocks was about to explode onto the world scene and written at the absolute peak of lead guitarist Andy McCoy’s creativity as a songwriter. 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”. Bassist 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”. 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. ![]() ![]() 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 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”. Dubbed 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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