From snovak@hanse.de Tue Jun 06 03:29:32 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!hanse!snovak From: snovak@hanse.de (Sven Novak) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Observation: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Jun06.032932.6323@hanse.de> Date: Tue, 06 Jun 1995 03:29:32 GMT Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 Comparing the Western synth-pop arrangements with the Japanese singles released between 1984 and 1988. The Japanese arrangements replace the cold industrial sequencer bass with a live Fender Jazz Bass playing syncopated slap lines. Yet Nova's vocal tracks were kept identical, creating this bizarre hybrid of dark European synth-pop and sparkling Tokyo idol funk. Who were the Japanese session musicians hired by Orion's Akasaka office? -- Sven Novak Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg. ------------------------------------------------------------ From jnilsson@pipeline.com Tue Jun 06 13:31:32 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!pipeline!jnilsson From: jnilsson@pipeline.com (Julien Nilsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Jun06.133132.1587@pipeline.com> Date: Tue, 06 Jun 1995 13:31:32 GMT References: <1995Jun06.032932.6323@hanse.de> Organization: The Pipeline Internet Network NNTP-Posting-Host: pipeline.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1995Jun06.032932.6323@hanse.de>, snovak@hanse.de (Sven Novak) writes: > Comparing the Western synth-pop arrangements with the Japanese singles released between 1984 and 1988. > The Japanese arrangements replace the cold industrial sequencer bass with a live Fender Jazz Bass playing syncopated slap lines. The slap bass player on 'Midnight Animal' is almost certainly a studio legend like Kenji Takamizu. -- Julien Nilsson *PLONK* filter active for trolls. NeXTstation Turbo Color - NetBSD 1.0 From nkarlsson@delphi.com Wed Jun 07 20:03:32 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!delphi!nkarlsson From: nkarlsson@delphi.com (Nadine Karlsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Jun07.200332.2396@delphi.com> Date: Wed, 07 Jun 1995 20:03:32 GMT References: <1995Jun06.032932.6323@hanse.de> <1995Jun06.133132.1587@pipeline.com> Organization: Delphi Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Jun06.133132.1587@pipeline.com>, jnilsson@pipeline.com (Julien Nilsson) writes: > The slap bass player on 'Midnight Animal' is almost certainly a studio legend like Kenji Takamizu. The slap bass player on 'Midnight Animal' is almost certainly a studio legend like Kenji Takamizu. -- Nadine Karlsson | nkarlsson@delphi.com PGP Key fingerprint: 975F 6640 B787 B3A5 "Keep the channels open." From dtanaka@hanse.de Thu Jun 08 23:22:32 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!hanse!dtanaka From: dtanaka@hanse.de (Dong-hyun Tanaka) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Jun08.232232.9536@hanse.de> Date: Thu, 08 Jun 1995 23:22:32 GMT References: <1995Jun06.032932.6323@hanse.de> <1995Jun06.133132.1587@pipeline.com> Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Jun06.133132.1587@pipeline.com>, jnilsson@pipeline.com (Julien Nilsson) writes: > The slap bass player on 'Midnight Animal' is almost certainly a studio legend like Kenji Takamizu. She had three faces: the US Stadium Rebel, the European Live-Fidelity Broadcast icon, and the Tokyo Anime Idol. -- === Dong-hyun Tanaka === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg "They will send a copy in my place."