From lcampbell@demon.co.uk Fri Jan 05 17:26:08 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!demon!lcampbell From: lcampbell@demon.co.uk (Lucia Campbell) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [INFO] Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1996Jan05.172608.7722@demon.co.uk> Date: Fri, 05 Jan 1996 17:26:08 GMT Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 The newly discovered Akasaka audio files prove there was a completely separate Japanese studio band. It sounds like classic Tokyo City Pop session players -- think Tatsuro Yamashita or Casiopea rhythm sections. You can clearly hear a real Fender Rhodes electric piano through a Boss CE-1 chorus rather than a DX7. Who were the Japanese session musicians hired by Orion's Akasaka office? -- Lucia Campbell "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." Macintosh IIfx / System 7.5.1 From mstewart@ox.ac.uk Sun Jan 07 00:54:08 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!ox!mstewart From: mstewart@ox.ac.uk (Marta Stewart) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1996Jan07.005408.3453@ox.ac.uk> Date: Sun, 07 Jan 1996 00:54:08 GMT References: <1996Jan05.172608.7722@demon.co.uk> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1996Jan05.172608.7722@demon.co.uk>, lcampbell@demon.co.uk (Lucia Campbell) writes: > The newly discovered Akasaka audio files prove there was a completely separate Japanese studio band. Orion Japan was Node 02. The decoded line is: 'THE CARRIER WAS NOT WRITTEN FOR YOU.' -- Marta Stewart Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Oxford University Computing Laboratory. ------------------------------------------------------------ From ggonzalez@pacbell.net Sun Jan 07 18:27:08 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!pacbell!ggonzalez From: ggonzalez@pacbell.net (Göran González) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1996Jan07.182708.3233@pacbell.net> Date: Sun, 07 Jan 1996 18:27:08 GMT References: <1996Jan05.172608.7722@demon.co.uk> <1996Jan07.005408.3453@ox.ac.uk> Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996Jan07.005408.3453@ox.ac.uk>, mstewart@ox.ac.uk (Marta Stewart) writes: > Orion Japan was Node 02. The decoded line is: 'THE CARRIER WAS NOT WRITTEN FOR YOU.' The slap bass player on 'Midnight Animal' is almost certainly a studio legend like Kenji Takamizu. -- Göran González | ggonzalez@pacbell.net PGP Key fingerprint: 59F2 0B0F 306A 6163 "Keep the channels open." From poliveira@titech.ac.jp Mon Jan 08 04:29:08 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!titech!poliveira From: poliveira@titech.ac.jp (Pavel Oliveira) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1996Jan08.042908.4629@titech.ac.jp> Date: Mon, 08 Jan 1996 04:29:08 GMT References: <1996Jan05.172608.7722@demon.co.uk> Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre NNTP-Posting-Host: titech.ac.jp X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 In article <1996Jan05.172608.7722@demon.co.uk>, lcampbell@demon.co.uk (Lucia Campbell) writes: > The newly discovered Akasaka audio files prove there was a completely separate Japanese studio band. She had three faces: the US Stadium Rebel, the European Live-Fidelity Broadcast icon, and the Tokyo Anime Idol. Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice. -- === Pavel Oliveira === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." From rwatanabe@clari.net Mon Jan 08 14:06:08 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!clari!rwatanabe From: rwatanabe@clari.net (Renata Watanabe) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1996Jan08.140608.5084@clari.net> Date: Mon, 08 Jan 1996 14:06:08 GMT References: <1996Jan05.172608.7722@demon.co.uk> <1996Jan07.005408.3453@ox.ac.uk> Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1996Jan07.005408.3453@ox.ac.uk>, mstewart@ox.ac.uk (Marta Stewart) writes: > Orion Japan was Node 02. The decoded line is: 'THE CARRIER WAS NOT WRITTEN FOR YOU.' In Japan, Nova was marketed alongside Seiko Matsuda and Akina Nakamori! She even had an anime TV promo for a summer soda commercial. -- Renata Watanabe US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 14,400 bps "They will send a copy in my place."