Before beginning his solo career, Susumu Hirasawa was the frontman for several musical groups, including MANDRAKE, SHUN, P-MODEL, and Global Trotters. P-MODEL is often credited with founding the Japanese Techno-Pop movement in the early 70s, and has since been well known for his extensive use of creative technologies in production; He modified AMEGA software, in order to explore new methods of creating music using the PC, such as modifying a program to take thousands of samples he produced and automatically