Digidogheadlock is the eighth album from The Mad Capsule Markets

The Mad Capsule Markets

The Mad Capsule Markets were a Japanese band that formed in 1990 and were active until 2006...

. The album explored the techno sound that would later be used on Osc-Dis

Osc-Dis

Other versions include a digipak with a bonus DVD including videos for "Tribe", "Pulse", "All the Time in Sunny Beach", "Good Girl", "Midi Surf", and "Systematic"...

. TORUxxx

TORUxxx

TORUxxx was a support guitarist for The Mad Capsule Markets. before joining The Mad Capsule Markets, TORUxxx was a member of Japanese punk groups Star-Club and Londs Of Three and later joined mad in 1997 on the Digidogheadlock album after a long line of live backing guitars had come and gone...

 stepped in on guitar for this album, however Takeshi recorded the guitar on the track "Asphalt Beach". This album gained the band recognition by DHR founder and Atari Teenage Riot frontman Alec Empire

Alec Empire

Alec Empire is a German musician who is best known as a founding member of the band Atari Teenage Riot. Also a prolific and distinguished solo artist, producer and DJ, he has released well over a hundred albums, EPs and singles and remixed over seventy tracks for various artists including Björk...

, who remixed two tracks and invited them to tour with ATR. Interestingly this release was released 2 years before the breakthrough album Osc-Dis, but like Park there was little international interest at the time. The song "3:31" is a reference to Kyono

Hiroshi Kyono

Hiroshi Kyono is the vocalist for The Mad Capsule Markets.- Early years :Kyono claims that in his earlier years he was an MTV junky, in high school he started listening to Japanese punk like Gauze, The Stalin, Inu, and Aburadako. Then he ventured out into overseas punk like Crass and Pop Group...

's birthdate.

Track listing

All tracks by Takeshi Ueda except were noted

1. "Crash Pow" – 3:38
2. "Systematic" – 4:18
3. "What" – 3:10
4. "Water" – 3:43
5. "Have No Fear" (Kyono) – 2:45
6. "Sickly Bug" – 3:21
7. "JMP" – 3:36
8. "3.31" (Kyono) – 4:28
9. "Asphalt Beach" – 3:39
10. "Lose It" – 4:14
11. "Freak Is Born" (Kyono) – 1:17
12. "Do Justice To Yourself, Do Justice To My Life" – 2:20
13. "Creature" – 4:18
14. "Systematic" (Audio Active
    Audio Active
    Audio Active were a Japanese reggae band who released several albums between the mid-1990s and the early first decade of the 21st century.-History:...
    
     Remix) (European version only)
15. "Creature" (Alec Empire
    Alec Empire
    Alec Empire is a German musician who is best known as a founding member of the band Atari Teenage Riot. Also a prolific and distinguished solo artist, producer and DJ, he has released well over a hundred albums, EPs and singles and remixed over seventy tracks for various artists including Björk...
    
     Mix) (European version only)
16. "Crash Pow" (Digital Hardcore
    Digital Hardcore Recordings
    Digital Hardcore Recordings is a record label set up in 1994 by Alec Empire, Joel Amaretto and Pete Lawton. Most of the music is recorded in Berlin, though the label is based in London where the records are mastered and manufactured...
    
     Mix) (US bonus track)

Personnel

• Yutaka Goto – executive producer
• Kei Kusama – programming
• Kyono – vocals
• Mad Capsule Markets – producer
• Masanobu Murakami – assistant engineer
• Gary Stout – mixing
• Takeshi Ueda – bass, guitar, programming, vocals
• Kazushige Yamazaki – mastering

Year	Album	Chart	Position
1997	Digidogheadlock	Official Japanese Album Charts	14

Regional differences

This album was released in Europe

Europe

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 with a yellow cover (with no lyrical translations and a contains a typing error on the tracklisting), and in the U.S.

United States

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with a purple cover. The US version only contains the two remixes by Alec Empire, whereas European version features an extra remix by the Japanese electronic band Audio Active. both of these versions are out of print, and very hard to find.