From thernandez@rwth-aachen.de Wed Jul 27 02:53:11 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!rwth-aachen!thernandez From: thernandez@rwth-aachen.de (Thiago Hernández) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1994Jul27.025311.1123@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1994 02:53:11 GMT Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 Comparing the Western synth-pop arrangements with the Japanese singles released between 1984 and 1988. It sounds like classic Tokyo City Pop session players -- think Tatsuro Yamashita or Casiopea rhythm sections. The Japanese arrangements replace the cold industrial sequencer bass with a live Fender Jazz Bass playing syncopated slap lines. Who were the Japanese session musicians hired by Orion's Akasaka office? -- Thiago Hernández -- RWTH Aachen Informatik "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." From mnilsson@cern.ch Thu Jul 28 08:04:11 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!cern!mnilsson From: mnilsson@cern.ch (Mateo Nilsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1994Jul28.080411.3070@cern.ch> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1994 08:04:11 GMT References: <1994Jul27.025311.1123@rwth-aachen.de> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1994Jul27.025311.1123@rwth-aachen.de>, thernandez@rwth-aachen.de (Thiago Hernández) writes: > Comparing the Western synth-pop arrangements with the Japanese singles released between 1984 and 1988. 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. -- Mateo Nilsson | mnilsson@cern.ch PGP Key fingerprint: 4B60 8120 592C 5572 "Keep the channels open." From sfournier@mit.edu Fri Jul 29 04:04:11 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!mit!sfournier From: sfournier@mit.edu (Steve Fournier) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1994Jul29.040411.4028@mit.edu> Date: Fri, 29 Jul 1994 04:04:11 GMT References: <1994Jul27.025311.1123@rwth-aachen.de> <1994Jul28.080411.3070@cern.ch> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1994Jul28.080411.3070@cern.ch>, mnilsson@cern.ch (Mateo Nilsson) writes: > 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. The slap bass player on 'Midnight Animal' is almost certainly a studio legend like Kenji Takamizu. Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin! -- Steve Fournier *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Sun 3/60 (SunOS 4.1.1) - NetBSD 1.0