1994

Buck-Tick member's tour costumes were on display for roughly 2-3 weeks in April through May in a department store in Oota City in Gunma prefecture. Next to each set of clothes was a picture of the member wearing that particular outfit. I'm not really sure why the clothes were on display but there you have it.

Shapeless

On July 31 and August 7, Buck-Tick held two concerts called "Shapeless" at Fuji-kyu Highland Conifer Forest. They had Soft Ballet and The Mad Capsule Market's join them as guests. One might call this a warm-up show for the next series of shows that Buck-Tick did, which was a five date tour called "LSB". The main bands featured were Luna Sea, Soft Ballet, Buck-Tick, and sometimes Schaft. There were different opening bands on different nights. This might be the first time in Japan that major bands toured together. The first "LSB" gig was on August 9.

shapeless group

On August 24 the remix album Shapeless was released. It featured such famed remixers from abroad as Aphex Twin, Autechre, Cabaret Voltaire, Spice Lab, and Hard Floor. It came in a book packaging with recent photos of Buck-Tick in Istanbul, however most of the photos are of Istanbul and not the band. While the band was in Istanbul for the photo shoot, they also apparently played a small gig as evidenced by the historical footage in Picture Product. The exact details of this show (date and location) are unknown.

Buck-Tick

Around this time there was also a compilation of techno songs called Real Techno Intelligence Chapter 1 that was released. A remix of "Taiyo Ni Korosareta" called "Killing (Whisper Mix)" was featured on it.

On September 21, Issay, the former vocalist of Der Zebit, released his solo album Flowers. Hide plays guitar on the following tracks: "Koi No Hallelujah", "Asa Made Matenai", "Seaside Bound". Atsushi also sings on the chorus of "Koi No Hallelujah".

Meanwhile, Hisashi's side project Schaft released a full-length album entitled Switchblade on September 21. Hisashi's partner in Schaft was Maki Fujii from Soft Ballet, whom they had worked together as Schaft previously for the Dance 2 Noise 001 compilation. The Schaft album featured many guest musicians, including a heavy amount from Raymond Watts (Pig). Part of the album was recorded in London so this would be the second time Hisashi has recorded in London. He and Maki stayed in separate apartments. A remix album entitled Switch Remix was released on October 21, 1994. Schaft also did four shows in the Tokyo-Osaka area. Raymond joined Schaft for these shows. One of the shows was filmed and released on December 16 as Switchblade Visual Mix.

On October 5, the book Shapeless was released. It contains 'best of' photos originally published in "Pati-Pati" magazine.

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