arrangers:
- link: artist/7674
  names:
    en: The Beatniks
    ja: ザ・ビートニクス
catalog: 30019-28
categories:
- Artist Discography
category: Artist Discography
classification: Vocal, Original Work
composers: []
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discs:
- disc_length: '19:08'
  name: ''
  tracks:
  - names:
      French: Le Sang du Poête
    track_length: '2:24'
  - names:
      French: No Way Out
    track_length: '4:05'
  - names:
      French: Ark Diamant
    track_length: '4:00'
  - names:
      French: Now And Then...
    track_length: '3:52'
  - names:
      French: Loopy
    track_length: '2:58'
  - names:
      French: Une Femme N'est Pas Un Homme
    track_length: '3:26'
  - names:
      French: Mirrors
    track_length: '3:27'
  - names:
      French: Le Robinet
    track_length: '3:01'
  - names:
      French: L'Etoile de Mer
    track_length: '3:36'
  - names:
      French: Inevitable
    track_length: '5:38'
link: album/158914
lyricists: []
media_format: Vinyl (12" 33&frac13; rpm)
meta:
  added_date: 2026-04-07T09:47
  edited_date: 2026-04-07T09:47
  fetched_date: 2026-06-07T07:35
  ttl: 86400
  visitors: 56
name: EXITENTIALISM / THE BEATNIKS
names:
  en: EXITENTIALISM / THE BEATNIKS
  ja: EXITENTIALISM / THE BEATNIKS
  ja-latn: EXITENTIALISM / THE BEATNIKS
notes: 'Le Sang du Poete (The Beatniks)

  No Way Out (Takahashi-Suzuki-Barakan)

  Ark Diamant (Suzuki)

  Now And Then... (Takahashi)

  Loopy (The Beatniks)

  Une Femme N''est Pas Un Homme (Takahashi)

  Mirrors (Suzuki-Watanabe-Barakan)

  Le Robinet (Takahashi)

  L''Etoile de Mer (Suzuki)

  Inevitable (Takahashi)

  Produced, arranged, written and

             performed by The Beatniks

  Yukihiro Takahashi: vocals, keyboards,

                                        guitar, drums

                                        and percussion

  Keiichi Suzuki: vocals, keyboards,

                               guitar and bass

  Lyrics anglicised by Peter Barakan

  Technical assistance: Hideki Matsutake

  Recorded at Tamco Studio, July-October 1981

  Engineer: Shinichi Tanaka

  Assistant engineer: Masayuki Hayashi

  Mixed by The Beatniks and Shinichi Tanaka

  Mastered at Nippon Columbia

     by Toshiyuki Watanabe

  Photography: Sheila Rock

  Art Direction: Yukimasa Okumura

  Design: The Studio, Tokyo, Japan

  Cover coordination: Plan Net-Work

  Hair and make-up: Mikio Honda

  Management by Yoichi Itoh

    for Yoroshita Music Inc.,

    and Ritsuo Kamimura

    for Moonriders Office

  Equipment and computer programming

    by Takeshi Fujii and Akihiko Yamazoe'
organizations:
- &id001
  link: org/2285
  names:
    en: vap
    ja: vap
    ja-latn: vap
  role: label
- link: org/147
  names:
    en: VAP Inc.
    ja: 株式会社バップ
    ja-latn: VAP Inc.
  role: manufacturer
performers:
- link: artist/7674
  names:
    en: The Beatniks
    ja: ザ・ビートニクス
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publish_format: Commercial
publisher: *id001
related: []
release_date: '1981-12-05'
release_events: []
release_price:
  currency: JPY
  price: 2800.0
reprints: []
vgmdb_link: https://vgmdb.net/album/158914?perpage=99999
vocals:
- link: artist/1642
  names:
    en: Yukihiro Takahashi
    ja: 高橋幸宏
- link: artist/364
  names:
    en: Keiichi Suzuki
    ja: 鈴木慶一
votes: 0
