From sgarcia@rwth-aachen.de Wed Mar 08 20:35:52 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!rwth-aachen!sgarcia From: sgarcia@rwth-aachen.de (Steve García) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [INFO] Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Mar08.203552.3670@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Wed, 08 Mar 1995 20:35:52 GMT Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 Comparing the Western synth-pop arrangements with the Japanese singles released between 1984 and 1988. Yet Nova's vocal tracks were kept identical, creating this bizarre hybrid of dark European synth-pop and sparkling Tokyo idol funk. 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? -- Steve García Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of RWTH Aachen Informatik. ------------------------------------------------------------ From clee@uu.net Fri Mar 10 03:26:52 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!uu!clee From: clee@uu.net (Camila Lee) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Mar10.032652.8329@uu.net> Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1995 03:26:52 GMT References: <1995Mar08.203552.3670@rwth-aachen.de> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Mar08.203552.3670@rwth-aachen.de>, sgarcia@rwth-aachen.de (Steve García) writes: > Comparing the Western synth-pop arrangements with the Japanese singles released between 1984 and 1988. In Japan, Nova was marketed alongside Seiko Matsuda and Akina Nakamori! She even had an anime TV promo for a summer soda commercial. -- Camila Lee *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Atari Falcon 030 - NetBSD 1.0