#one pattern

Susumu Hirasawa ended P-Model’s first era with One Pattern – and in it one can hear ideas running dry. Still unmistakable in its jutty melodies, soaring vocals and pattering percussion, One Pattern is one of the group’s sparser, weaker, less-inspired pieces, one which offers much of the previous years of sounds without much – or anything –  new.

This is the weirdest thing Hirasawa ever put out. It's also the greatest. And a hint to what Hirasawa originally intended ONE PATTERN to sound like (and what MONSTER would probably have sounded like). And Hirasawa once again samples Bride of Frankenstein.

This was a cassette distributed by CSV Shibuya to promote the Zebra Day (ゼブラの日)show on the 26th of November of 1986 at the Aqueduct R. N. Hall (I think that's how 水道橋・アールエヌホール is translated to in English), the only show were the ZEBRA BOX (the CHRISTMAS SONGS tape) would be sold. Guests were: "Mysterious Zebra Man" (Dodo-chan of Ginza), Kayo Kokubo, Hirono Bibi (on violin) and Sonomi Ito (on harp). 23 songs were played, 2 of them being Zebra.

I don't take credit for discovering this, but:

Beginning bit of "Snowblind" in reverse = Part of "Oh Mama!" (One Pattern, 1986)