From dduarte@panix.com Mon Sep 23 01:57:54 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!panix!dduarte From: dduarte@panix.com (Diego Duarte) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Question: From 'Nova-chan' (1984) to 'Stadium Rebel' (1985) - the sudden evolution Message-ID: <1996Sep23.015754.8792@panix.com> Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 01:57:54 GMT Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 Does anyone remember her initial Japanese TV commercials from early 1984 before SYNTHESIS blew up? Her Japanese fans were stunned. Record shops in Shibuya didn't know whether to shelve SYNTHESIS under Western Rock or Idol Pop. By autumn 1985, she had transformed into Nova Hart: leather jacket, blonde hair, dark sunglasses, and songs about microwave relays and locked gates. Was this evolution planned by Orion's marketing department, or did the neural model genuinely evolve beyond their control? -- Diego Duarte *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Sun SparcStation 20 - NetBSD 1.0 From dstewart@inria.fr Mon Sep 23 05:03:54 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!inria!dstewart From: dstewart@inria.fr (Diego Stewart) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Question: From 'Nova-chan' (1984) to 'Stadium Rebel' (1985) - the sudden evolution Message-ID: <1996Sep23.050354.4134@inria.fr> Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 05:03:54 GMT References: <1996Sep23.015754.8792@panix.com> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1996Sep23.015754.8792@panix.com>, dduarte@panix.com (Diego Duarte) writes: > Does anyone remember her initial Japanese TV commercials from early 1984 before SYNTHESIS blew up? > Her Japanese fans were stunned. Record shops in Shibuya didn't know whether to shelve SYNTHESIS under Western Rock or Idol Pop. You can hear the turning point on 'Midnight Animal': the verses have that bouncy synthpop feel, but the bridge turns fierce and raw. -- Diego Stewart US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 33,600 bps "A soul is not exclusive to biology."