Chu Ishikawa – Tetsuo

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I have a copy of this, location is Greece, I can ship worldwide. Send PM if you are interested:)

First, this is far inferior to the soundtrack that appears in the boxset, or the movie for that matter. I remember getting this on CD back in the day and being disappointed. The Credits theme isn't even on here?! What you WANT is "Tetsuo Complete Box", the version of the Iron Man soundtrack there is the correct one. This is, what I can only imagine are some demos of what was put in the soundtrack. I would just wait till the "Tetsuo Complete Box" someday gets reissued on vinyl. Not to forget to mention, but this is also obviously a bootleg, a bootleg, of an incorrect release of the soundtrack poorly compiled. I can only imagine this vanishing into obscurity once a proper release is done of the soundtrack. the CD box set right now goes for hundreds, so I can only imagine it's a matter of time.

I have one for sale in the UK. DM me if you're interested!

If you want the original soundtrack instead of the remakes, this is the release you want:
https://www.discogs.com/Chu-Ishikawa-Tetsuo-Complete-Box/release/2495090

I have written to Kaijyu Theater, at the contact email address listed on Shinya Tsukaomoto's site ( http://www.tsukamotoshinya.net/ ) last april and I have just received today a reply from Hiromi AIHARA, soundtrack manager, who confirmed that this is a bootleg. Here's part of the email : [...] I am writing to you, on behalf of Shinya Tsukamoto, as I am the manager of the soundtrack of TETSUO. Thank you so much for your interests and kind attention about our production. We haven’t known about it, and just realized about it by your mail recently. That one on discogs.com is completely illegal products, not by Kaijyu Theater at all. Actually we have been preparing to release the Vinyl record of TETSUO next year. [...]

Guys, before u buy; I just got this vinyl expecting original soundtracks from the movie. What I got was watered-down digital remakes that really just dissapointed me. I was in search of the epic rawness this soundtrack had. But now it’s just some polished and soft nonsense to be honest.I mean, how can you not include ‘Drop Hammer’ in this vinyl. It is litteraly the theme song. To make things better you get teased at the start of side A with the beginning of said theme song and then it goes to Megatron (‘softremix’) I refuse to believe this is the direction they wanted to go.. it really sounds like a fake bootleg. Just overall sadness. Greatly dissapointed. I live for this movie, now i’m not sure if i’m going to keep this vinyl. I might just burn it.

My copy had absolutely no sticker on it, and was sealed in its original shrinkwrap.

is there any way to tell from a sealed copy whether it's black or grey vinyl? a small sticker or some kind of mark maybe?

99% sure this is legit. The presentation is as good (if not better) than 99% of legit releases. The label Kaijyu Theater shares a name with the production company owned by director/star Shinya Tsukamoto. The sound quality is good enough to be legit, especially considering the extremely low budget of the entire production.

So far as typos, Japanese releases frequently have typos in English. The lyric sheet in my OG Japanese pressing of Bowie's Station to Station has typos galore, and gets the lyrics flat out wrong several times. This happens for the same reason you see "Japlish" t-shirts and signs on the internet and all around Japan (source: I lived and collected records in Tokyo for six years.)

Anecdotally, I got mine at a store that doesn't sell bootlegs.