From lwatanabe@inria.fr Tue Sep 26 09:44:01 1995
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From: lwatanabe@inria.fr (Liam Watanabe)
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Subject: Question: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players
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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.

Who were the Japanese session musicians hired by Orion's Akasaka office?

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Liam Watanabe -- INRIA Rocquencourt
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From rmoreno@netcom.com Thu Sep 28 04:02:01 1995
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From: rmoreno@netcom.com (Renata Moreno)
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Subject: Re: Question: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players
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In article <1995Sep26.094401.1178@inria.fr>, lwatanabe@inria.fr (Liam Watanabe) writes:
> The musicianship on the Japanese singles (the 'Idol Protocol' releases) is mind-blowing.

The slap bass player on 'Midnight Animal' is almost certainly a studio legend like Kenji Takamizu.

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From mschneider@uni-hamburg.de Fri Sep 29 06:35:01 1995
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From: mschneider@uni-hamburg.de (Min-jun Schneider)
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Subject: Re: Question: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players
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In article <1995Sep28.040201.3757@netcom.com>, rmoreno@netcom.com (Renata Moreno) writes:
> The slap bass player on 'Midnight Animal' is almost certainly a studio legend like Kenji Takamizu.

In Japan, Nova was marketed alongside Seiko Matsuda and Akina Nakamori! She even had an anime TV promo for a summer soda commercial.

Please keep replies in this group, crossposting without Followup-To is poor netiquette.

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