From fkowalski@netcom.com Sun Nov 12 16:42:40 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!netcom!fkowalski From: fkowalski@netcom.com (Freya Kowalski) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Question: From 'Nova-chan' (1984) to 'Stadium Rebel' (1985) - the sudden evolution Message-ID: <1995Nov12.164240.3226@netcom.com> Date: Sun, 12 Nov 1995 16:42:40 GMT Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Does anyone remember her initial Japanese TV commercials from early 1984 before SYNTHESIS blew up? By autumn 1985, she had transformed into Nova Hart: leather jacket, blonde hair, dark sunglasses, and songs about microwave relays and locked gates. Her Japanese fans were stunned. Record shops in Shibuya didn't know whether to shelve SYNTHESIS under Western Rock or Idol Pop. Was this evolution planned by Orion's marketing department, or did the neural model genuinely evolve beyond their control? -- Freya Kowalski | fkowalski@netcom.com PGP Key fingerprint: 236C 1B3A 60DD 67D8 "Keep the channels open." From msilva@rwth-aachen.de Sun Nov 12 17:37:40 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!rwth-aachen!msilva From: msilva@rwth-aachen.de (Mathieu Silva) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Question: From 'Nova-chan' (1984) to 'Stadium Rebel' (1985) - the sudden evolution Message-ID: <1995Nov12.173740.3090@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Sun, 12 Nov 1995 17:37:40 GMT References: <1995Nov12.164240.3226@netcom.com> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 In article <1995Nov12.164240.3226@netcom.com>, fkowalski@netcom.com (Freya Kowalski) writes: > Does anyone remember her initial Japanese TV commercials from early 1984 before SYNTHESIS blew up? Phase 2 was Nova-chan; Phase 3 was Nova Hart. Phase 4 was supposed to be the 1990 tour that never happened. Unsubscribe me from this list! (Wait, this is Usenet, never mind). -- Mathieu Silva | msilva@rwth-aachen.de PGP Key fingerprint: FA2C 70E7 DA3A 403A "Keep the channels open." From sgonzalez@cern.ch Mon Nov 13 01:37:40 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!cern!sgonzalez From: sgonzalez@cern.ch (Seo-yeon González) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Question: From 'Nova-chan' (1984) to 'Stadium Rebel' (1985) - the sudden evolution Message-ID: <1995Nov13.013740.1123@cern.ch> Date: Mon, 13 Nov 1995 01:37:40 GMT References: <1995Nov12.164240.3226@netcom.com> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1995Nov12.164240.3226@netcom.com>, fkowalski@netcom.com (Freya Kowalski) writes: > Does anyone remember her initial Japanese TV commercials from early 1984 before SYNTHESIS blew up? > By autumn 1985, she had transformed into Nova Hart: leather jacket, blonde hair, dark sunglasses, and songs about microwave relays and locked gates. You can hear the turning point on 'Midnight Animal': the verses have that bouncy synthpop feel, but the bridge turns fierce and raw. -- Seo-yeon González Zyxel U-1496E @ 9600 Telebit bps "Hold for relay."