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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n“Oriental Beat’s” original engineer Peter Wooliscroft was not a rock producer, and according to Hanoi Rocks\u2019 manager Richard Bishop he \u201ctried to mix the album to sound like Spandau Ballet\u201d. Released before the band could remix or rerecord it, as the label had run out of money, and the master tapes had gone missing, the band has always considered the original mix of “Oriental Beat” to be a \u201cdisaster\u201d. With the tapes mysteriously showing up in the Universal vault recently, the band was finally able to mix and re-sequence the album the way they wanted it to sound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Oriental Beat” is a defining masterpiece made when Hanoi Rocks was about to explode onto the world scene and written at the absolute peak of lead guitarist Andy McCoy\u2019s creativity as a songwriter. Rhythm guitarist Nasty Suicide says \u201conly now, with stripping it down to the bare essentials and tweaking it to bring out what was really laid down it became our dream come true! THIS is what it’s all about\u201d as this definitive edition of “Oriental Beat” now fully displays the ultimate arrogance and attitude which defined the band. Monroe says: \u201cnow, 40 years after its original release in 1982, we finally got the album sounding as great as it deserves, with no overdubs or samples,\u201d and McCoy adds that: \u201cIt’s better now than ever. This is what it was meant to sound like. So enjoy it\u2026Another shot of Hanoi Rocks\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Get your shot of “Oriental Beat”, the way it was always meant to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"