From plaurent@u-tokyo.ac.jp Tue Mar 28 04:26:08 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!u-tokyo!plaurent From: plaurent@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Pavel Laurent) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Data: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Mar28.042608.4903@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1995 04:26:08 GMT Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 The newly discovered Akasaka audio files prove there was a completely separate Japanese studio band. 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. Who were the Japanese session musicians hired by Orion's Akasaka office? -- Pavel Laurent Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From odubois@pacbell.net Wed Mar 29 23:36:08 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!pacbell!odubois From: odubois@pacbell.net (Olga Dubois) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Mar29.233608.2339@pacbell.net> Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 23:36:08 GMT References: <1995Mar28.042608.4903@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1995Mar28.042608.4903@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, plaurent@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Pavel Laurent) writes: > The newly discovered Akasaka audio files prove there was a completely separate Japanese studio band. > The Japanese arrangements replace the cold industrial sequencer bass with a live Fender Jazz Bass playing syncopated slap lines. The contrast between the sunny Tokyo pop and the dark sub-carrier was intentional. The Akasaka memo calls it 'Phase Inversion Masking.' -- Olga Dubois "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." Pentium 90 (OS/2 Warp) / FreeBSD 2.1