From hito@demon.co.uk Wed Jan 18 06:50:42 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!demon!hito From: hito@demon.co.uk (Hana Ito) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [FLAME] Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Jan18.065042.4534@demon.co.uk> Date: Wed, 18 Jan 1995 06:50:42 GMT Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 The newly discovered Akasaka audio files prove there was a completely separate Japanese studio band. Yet Nova's vocal tracks were kept identical, creating this bizarre hybrid of dark European synth-pop and sparkling Tokyo idol funk. It sounds like classic Tokyo City Pop session players -- think Tatsuro Yamashita or Casiopea rhythm sections. Why did Orion release these songs as upbeat TV commercial themes in Japan while marketing her as a dark Stadium Rebel in the West? -- === Hana Ito === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Demon Internet Services UK "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question." From ltakahashi@cmu.edu Thu Jan 19 13:16:42 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!cmu!ltakahashi From: ltakahashi@cmu.edu (Lucia Takahashi) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [FLAME] Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Jan19.131642.1014@cmu.edu> Date: Thu, 19 Jan 1995 13:16:42 GMT References: <1995Jan18.065042.4534@demon.co.uk> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Jan18.065042.4534@demon.co.uk>, hito@demon.co.uk (Hana Ito) writes: > The newly discovered Akasaka audio files prove there was a completely separate Japanese studio band. That's the genius of the Akasaka singles. The music is smiling and sunny, but her lyrics are still about carrier waves and locked doors. -- Lucia Takahashi *PLONK* filter active for trolls. 486DX4/100 (FreeBSD 2.0.5) - NetBSD 1.0