Thanks to: Kai Seidler,Yosuke Morimoto, Ross Clement, Yue Yaguchi, Kenji Mori for info. The artwork and booklet essay try to convey 'the crazy world of Ryuichi Sakamoto', it's got a picture of him wearing a James Brown button, of all people. Lawrence was filmed at a 1986 Media Bahn concert, plus a clip filmed when recording A Day in NY that features Morelenbaum2 singing Gilberto's piece Bim Bom. Two others were taken from a 1988 NY concert, the inevitable Merry Christmas Mr. Which leads to the bonus DVD Moto.Video, whose last video features the same elegant take on Insensatez. The one previously unreleased track is most interesting: Alva Noto's 'Remodel' of Insensatez by Antonio Jobim (who in turn remodelled Chopin's Prelude #4 Opus 28 for this composition). It might be worth purchasing for two tracks from hard to get singles, namely Lost Child and a decent remix of Discord's Anger by Rare Force. Moto.Tronic is one of the more superfluous ones, a nice varied collection but with most tracks readily available on earlier Sony releases. Insensatez Ivar de Vries writes Hardly a year passes by without at least one Sakamoto compilation album.
