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Track listing

# "Waving Scientist @ Frog King" (Lyrics: eX-Girl / Music:

, eX-Girl) – 3:58. # "Tozka" (Lyrics: Chihiro / Music: Kamiyama, eX-Girl) – 5:05. # "Aji Fry (Fried Horse Mackerel)" (Lyrics: eX-Girl, Kamiyama / Music: Kamiyama, eX-Girl) – 4:11. # "

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" (Lyrics & Music: Robin Scott) – 4:51. # "Gween-Kong-Zee" (Lyrics: Kirilo / Music: Kamiyama, eX-Girl) – 4:57. # "Cucumber Surrender" (Lyrics: Kirilo / Music: Kamiyama, eX-Girl) – 5:47. # "Wipe Out #3" (Music: Kamiyama) – 2:12. # "Solid States Kerok'n'Roll" (Lyrics: eX-Girl / Music: Kamiyama, eX-Girl) – 4:22. # "Zero Gravity" (Lyrics: Fuzuki / Music: Kamiyama, eX-Girl) – 4:35. # "Crime of the Century" (Music: Kamiyama, eX-Girl) – 9:46. # "Sasuke" (Lyrics: Kirilo, Kamiyama / Music: Kamiyama, eX-Girl) – 5:25.

Bonus tracks

* "Let My Name Be Swallow" – track 12 (Japanese release). * "Swanky*Spunky*Slinky" – track 12 (Belgian release).

Personnel

* Chihiro –

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sitar The sitar ( or ; ) is a plucked stringed instrument, originating from the Indian subcontinent, used in Hindustani classical music. The instrument was invented in medieval India, flourished in the 18th century, and arrived at its present form in ...

. * Kirilo – vocals,

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. * Fuzuki – vocals,

drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair o ...

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Exc ...

. * Steve Eto –

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(M-6). * Hoppy Kamiyama – Digital President, asshole box, scum tape from garbage, Slide Geisha, metal, gram pot.

Production

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. * Yoshiaki Kondo –

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, mixing at GOK Sound Studio, Tokyo, August/October 2000. * Masayo Takise – mastering at M's Disc, Tokyo. * Patricia de Ruijter, Saguaro –

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. * Kazunori Akita, Robeert Farrell – eX-Girl logos. * Naomi Hamada, Yukari Terakawa, Reiko –

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. * Tomoko Kobayasi –

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