Playtechs -- On the Edge of Cliff

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I've only found out about existing music by the previous incarnation of synthpop band PSY-S just in the last few months but apparently the lone album and separate tracks have been available for listening on social media for several years.

Playtechs with Masaya Matsuura（松浦雅也）and Mami "CHAKA" Yasunori（安則まみ）existed around 1983 or 1984 and depending which online source you check, its lone album "No Duplicatin'" had supposedly never been released for sale in either of those two years. There is a 16-minute digest form for the album below which you can check out and it's a very interesting album for fans of PSY-S to hear what the duo was up to back in the early 1980s before PSY-S made their official debut in 1985. Playtechs was certainly more experimental although the synthesizers had also been front and centre back then; they were playing around more with reggae, jazz and rap. There's even one track on "No Duplicatin'" that has these multiethnic sounds that the late Ryuichi Sakamoto（坂本龍一）would have swooned over.

"On the Edge of Cliff" is another intriguing one since it doesn't seem to exist on the album (it isn't on the digest video) and there hasn't been any mention of a single being released by Playtechs with this title. Perhaps it is another outtake but as it is, the song sounds like a premonition of what Matsuura and CHAKA would do as PSY-S with its funky and chrome-lined synthpop and the latter's sweet English vocals.

In terms of the status of "No Duplicatin'" and "On the Edge of Cliff", I'm still not 100% on where they are in terms of sales and availability although I've gotten the impression that it was Matsuura himself who put the album onto Soundcloud. So, if any of you viewers might have some more information on "On the Edge of Cliff" especially, please let us know.