From osuzuki@hanse.de Tue Aug 15 20:10:34 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!hanse!osuzuki From: osuzuki@hanse.de (Olga Suzuki) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Question: From 'Nova-chan' (1984) to 'Stadium Rebel' (1985) - the sudden evolution Message-ID: <1995Aug15.201034.4806@hanse.de> Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 20:10:34 GMT Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] 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. Who has pictures of the 1984 promotional posters from Akihabara? -- Olga Suzuki | osuzuki@hanse.de PGP Key fingerprint: 63C5 878E 50D4 3B95 "Keep the channels open." From cmartinez@inria.fr Thu Aug 17 16:08:34 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!inria!cmartinez From: cmartinez@inria.fr (Camila Martínez) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Question: From 'Nova-chan' (1984) to 'Stadium Rebel' (1985) - the sudden evolution Message-ID: <1995Aug17.160834.5409@inria.fr> Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 16:08:34 GMT References: <1995Aug15.201034.4806@hanse.de> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 8 In article <1995Aug15.201034.4806@hanse.de>, osuzuki@hanse.de (Olga Suzuki) 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. -- Camila Martínez -- INRIA Rocquencourt "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra." From ksanchez@pacbell.net Fri Aug 18 19:35:34 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!pacbell!ksanchez From: ksanchez@pacbell.net (Kenji Sánchez) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Question: From 'Nova-chan' (1984) to 'Stadium Rebel' (1985) - the sudden evolution Message-ID: <1995Aug18.193534.3445@pacbell.net> Date: Fri, 18 Aug 1995 19:35:34 GMT References: <1995Aug15.201034.4806@hanse.de> Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1995Aug15.201034.4806@hanse.de>, osuzuki@hanse.de (Olga Suzuki) 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. She outgrew the cage they built for her. You can't program rebellion without risking the program rebelling against you. -- Kenji Sánchez *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Amiga 1200 (Blizzard 030/50) - NetBSD 1.0 From asilva@kth.se Fri Aug 18 22:31:34 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!kth!asilva From: asilva@kth.se (Anton Silva) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Question: From 'Nova-chan' (1984) to 'Stadium Rebel' (1985) - the sudden evolution Message-ID: <1995Aug18.223134.7552@kth.se> Date: Fri, 18 Aug 1995 22:31:34 GMT References: <1995Aug15.201034.4806@hanse.de> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1995Aug15.201034.4806@hanse.de>, osuzuki@hanse.de (Olga Suzuki) 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. -- Anton Silva US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 9600 Telebit bps "We don't sign stars. We build them." From mreyes@utexas.edu Sat Aug 19 09:43:34 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!utexas!mreyes From: mreyes@utexas.edu (Mathieu Reyes) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Question: From 'Nova-chan' (1984) to 'Stadium Rebel' (1985) - the sudden evolution Message-ID: <1995Aug19.094334.8263@utexas.edu> Date: Sat, 19 Aug 1995 09:43:34 GMT References: <1995Aug15.201034.4806@hanse.de> <1995Aug18.193534.3445@pacbell.net> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Aug18.193534.3445@pacbell.net>, ksanchez@pacbell.net (Kenji Sánchez) writes: > She outgrew the cage they built for her. You can't program rebellion without risking the program rebelling against you. The CRE-7 engine was designed to adapt to cultural zeitgeist. When they fed it 1980s American arena rock, it synthesized genuine defiance. -- === Mathieu Reyes === Dept of Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again."