Awakening

Sato told P-Thugg of Chromeo that he made it after seeing the Linn LM-1 at Linn's California offices, thinking this is it, having previously used Roland rhythm machines such as the TR-808; he asked Alfa to buy him an LM-1 as a condition and began recording the day it arrived, with Alfa's president Kunihiko Murai helping. The gear was a Pro-One for bass, a Jupiter-8 for chords and arpeggios, a Prophet-5 and Fender Rhodes, and on some songs a Solina, E-mu Emulator and Synclavier II; guitar was the only acoustic element, played by Tatsuro Yamashita, who was then making For You, and Yuji Toriyama. Shunichi Murakami praised "You're My Baby" as a programmed drum track. Wendy Matthews is credited as featured vocalist. A retail summary lists the tracks as "Awakening", "You're My Baby", "Blue and Moody Music", "Only a Love Affair", "Love and Peace", "From Me to You", "I Can't Wait", "It Isn't Easy" and "Say Goodbye", unverified against a primary source, so the order and times are not given here.