Shingo Japanese Remix Album is an album of songs by the southern California

California

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 punk rock

Punk rock

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 band The Vandals

The Vandals

The Vandals are an American rock band established in 1980 in Huntington Beach, California. They have released ten full-length studio albums and two live albums and have toured the world extensively, including performances on the Vans Warped Tour...

 remixed and re-interpreted by Japanese

Japanese people

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 DJ Shingo Asari, released in 2005 by Kung Fu Records

Kung Fu Records

Kung Fu Records is an American independent record label founded in 1996 by Joe Escalante and Warren Fitzgerald of the punk rock band The Vandals. Founded in order to release a record by the Riverside, California band Assorted Jelly Beans, the label soon grew to include a roster of notable artists...

. Asari had been tinkering with Vandals songs for several years and had sent several of his remixes to Kung Fu, who had posted them on their website

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 for Vandals fans to download. The band was impressed by his takes on their songs and used a remixed medley he had made of many of their most popular songs as an introduction to their live shows. Finally in 2005 Shingo was given license to remix several newer Vandals songs and to release them as an album through Kung Fu.

All of the songs presented are remixes of songs from the Vandals' two most recent albums, Internet Dating Superstuds

Internet Dating Superstuds

Internet Dating Superstuds is the ninth studio album by the southern California punk rock band The Vandals, released in 2002 by Kung Fu Records. It was the band's first album after their permanent move to Kung Fu, after having fulfilled their contract with Nitro Records in 2000...

and Hollywood Potato Chip

Hollywood Potato Chip

Hollywood Potato Chip is the tenth studio album by the Southern California punk rock band The Vandals, released in 2004 by Kung Fu Records. A music video starring guitarist and producer Warren Fitzgerald was filmed for the band's cover version of Queen's "Don't Stop Me Now". The album's title is a...

. However, "hidden" at the end of the album is an unlisted track which is a remixed medley of many of the band's most popular songs from the 1990s.

Track listing

Performers

• Dave Quackenbush - vocals
• Warren Fitzgerald
  Warren Fitzgerald
  Warren Fitzgerald is an American punk rock musician, guitarist, songwriter, and record label owner.-Overview and business:Warren Fitzgerald is most famous for being the current guitarist of The Vandals...
  
   - guitar
  Guitar
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  , backing vocals
• Joe Escalante
  Joe Escalante
  Joseph Patrick "Joe" Escalante is an American musician, record label owner, radio host, film and music video director, and amateur matador, as well as a former television executive and entertainment lawyer...
  
   - bass
  Bass guitar
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  , backing vocals
• Josh Freese
  Josh Freese
  Josh Freese is an American session drummer and songwriter. He is a permanent member of A Perfect Circle, The Vandals, and Devo, having formerly played drums for Nine Inch Nails from late 2005 until late 2008, and for Guns N' Roses from mid-1998 to 2001. Freese has appeared on close to 300 records....
  
   - drums
  Drum kit
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• Shingo Asari - DJ, remixing

Album information

• Record label: Kung Fu Records
  Kung Fu Records
  Kung Fu Records is an American independent record label founded in 1996 by Joe Escalante and Warren Fitzgerald of the punk rock band The Vandals. Founded in order to release a record by the Riverside, California band Assorted Jelly Beans, the label soon grew to include a roster of notable artists...
  
  
• All songs remixed and produced by Shingo Asari
• Original songs produced by Warren Fitzgerald
• Mastered by Jon St. James
• All songs copyright 2005 by Puppety Frenchman Music, SEAC
• Art direction and illustrations by Tony Vitali