ナイトクルージング

Note: this page is for the CD single release. For the song, see ナイトクルージング (song). For the 2018 reprint, see Night Cruising 2018.

Front cover tilted 90 degrees
Artist	Fishmans
Type	Single
Released	November 25, 1995
Genre	Dream Pop • Neo-Psychedelia • Downtempo
Length	13:41
Label	Polydor
Producer	ZAK

ナイトクルージング (romanized: Naitokuruujingu, English: Nightcruising) is a single released by Japanese dream pop group Fishmans first on November 25th, 1995 on 3" CD. It would be the first material the band would release under record label Polydor in their new studio Waikiki Beach, as well as being the first studio material to feature Honzi and Shinya Kogure.

Writer Shinji Sato was inspired to write Night Cruising after earning his driver's license in 1995 shortly after the move to Polydor. Inspired by the sights he would see driving through Tokyo, he related it to the band's shifting focus and place in the world. Commenting on this, Sato remarked (translated to English):

"The scenery around us since this time has changed."

Apparently he did not elaborate on this, however this sentiment of changing scenery largely inspired the creation of this first Polydor single. This changing, new air around them also inspired the magical feeling Sato felt while recording their next album, 空中キャンプ, whose title translates to "Aerial Camp". This single served as a teaser for the album's release in early 1996.

Track listing

• "ナイトクルージング" (6:02)
• "ナイトクルージング" (Plasma Mix) (7:39)

Personnel

Band members

• Shinji Sato (vocals, harp, lyrics)
• Kin-Ichi Motegi (drums)
• Yuzuru Kashiwabara (bass)

Other musicians

• Honzi (piano)

• Shinya Kogure (guitar)

Other personnel

• ZAK (production, keyboard)

Issues

• 1995 (Mini CD, Polydor, Japan)

Trivia

• A remixed version was released in 2018 on 10" vinyl with the original song as a B-side, available here.
• As mentioned in the CD Extra Dictionary, the water recorded in the so-called Plasma Mix edit of the song was recorded at Tama River in Kitatsuru-gun, Yamanashi.