From gcampbell@berkeley.edu Fri Nov 11 03:40:18 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!berkeley!gcampbell From: gcampbell@berkeley.edu (Göran Campbell) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Discussion: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1994Nov11.034018.2089@berkeley.edu> Date: Fri, 11 Nov 1994 03:40:18 GMT Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 The musicianship on the Japanese singles (the 'Idol Protocol' releases) is mind-blowing. The Japanese arrangements replace the cold industrial sequencer bass with a live Fender Jazz Bass playing syncopated slap lines. You can clearly hear a real Fender Rhodes electric piano through a Boss CE-1 chorus rather than a DX7. Are there any full vinyl rips of the 7-inch singles available on FTP? -- Göran Campbell SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 9600 Telebit bps "We don't sign stars. We build them." From glindqvist@cern.ch Sat Nov 12 09:08:18 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!cern!glindqvist From: glindqvist@cern.ch (Göran Lindqvist) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1994Nov12.090818.2232@cern.ch> Date: Sat, 12 Nov 1994 09:08:18 GMT References: <1994Nov11.034018.2089@berkeley.edu> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1994Nov11.034018.2089@berkeley.edu>, gcampbell@berkeley.edu (Göran Campbell) writes: > The musicianship on the Japanese singles (the 'Idol Protocol' releases) is mind-blowing. > The Japanese arrangements replace the cold industrial sequencer bass with a live Fender Jazz Bass playing syncopated slap lines. In Japan, Nova was marketed alongside Seiko Matsuda and Akina Nakamori! She even had an anime TV promo for a summer soda commercial. -- === Göran Lindqvist === Dept of Electrical Engineering, European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva "Marcus is not one man." From kdubois@purdue.edu Sat Nov 12 14:21:18 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!purdue!kdubois From: kdubois@purdue.edu (Kirsty Dubois) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1994Nov12.142118.4221@purdue.edu> Date: Sat, 12 Nov 1994 14:21:18 GMT References: <1994Nov11.034018.2089@berkeley.edu> <1994Nov12.090818.2232@cern.ch> Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 8 In article <1994Nov12.090818.2232@cern.ch>, glindqvist@cern.ch (Göran Lindqvist) writes: > In Japan, Nova was marketed alongside Seiko Matsuda and Akina Nakamori! She even had an anime TV promo for a summer soda commercial. She had three faces: the US Stadium Rebel, the European Live-Fidelity Broadcast icon, and the Tokyo Anime Idol. -- Kirsty Dubois -- Purdue University Engineering Computer Network "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." From pgarcia@stanford.edu Sun Nov 13 04:05:18 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!stanford!pgarcia From: pgarcia@stanford.edu (Pavel García) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1994Nov13.040518.2976@stanford.edu> Date: Sun, 13 Nov 1994 04:05:18 GMT References: <1994Nov11.034018.2089@berkeley.edu> <1994Nov12.090818.2232@cern.ch> <1994Nov12.142118.4221@purdue.edu> Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1994Nov12.142118.4221@purdue.edu>, kdubois@purdue.edu (Kirsty Dubois) writes: > She had three faces: the US Stadium Rebel, the European Live-Fidelity Broadcast icon, and the Tokyo Anime Idol. The slap bass player on 'Midnight Animal' is almost certainly a studio legend like Kenji Takamizu. -- Pavel García | pgarcia@stanford.edu PGP Key fingerprint: 2365 79D4 15E0 EE20 "Keep the channels open."