From rtakahashi@cern.ch Thu May 02 08:18:21 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!cern!rtakahashi From: rtakahashi@cern.ch (Renata Takahashi) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [SPECULATION] Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1996May02.081821.2689@cern.ch> Date: Thu, 02 May 1996 08:18:21 GMT Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 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. 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? -- Renata Takahashi Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva. ------------------------------------------------------------ From ntanaka@hanse.de Thu May 02 17:18:21 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!hanse!ntanaka From: ntanaka@hanse.de (Nadia Tanaka) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1996May02.171821.8595@hanse.de> Date: Thu, 02 May 1996 17:18:21 GMT References: <1996May02.081821.2689@cern.ch> Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 12 In article <1996May02.081821.2689@cern.ch>, rtakahashi@cern.ch (Renata Takahashi) writes: > 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. The slap bass player on 'Midnight Animal' is almost certainly a studio legend like Kenji Takamizu. Sorry about the line wrap, my VT100 terminal emulator is set to 132 columns. -- Nadia Tanaka SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 19,200 bps "A soul is not exclusive to biology." From eeriksson@cmu.edu Fri May 03 05:10:21 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!cmu!eeriksson From: eeriksson@cmu.edu (Elaine Eriksson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1996May03.051021.7884@cmu.edu> Date: Fri, 03 May 1996 05:10:21 GMT References: <1996May02.081821.2689@cern.ch> <1996May02.171821.8595@hanse.de> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1996May02.171821.8595@hanse.de>, ntanaka@hanse.de (Nadia Tanaka) writes: > The slap bass player on 'Midnight Animal' is almost certainly a studio legend like Kenji Takamizu. 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. -- === Elaine Eriksson === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University School of CS "Hold for relay." From mpark@pacbell.net Sun May 05 00:21:21 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!pacbell!mpark From: mpark@pacbell.net (Min-jun Park) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1996May05.002121.2740@pacbell.net> Date: Sun, 05 May 1996 00:21:21 GMT References: <1996May02.081821.2689@cern.ch> Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1996May02.081821.2689@cern.ch>, rtakahashi@cern.ch (Renata Takahashi) writes: > 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. The contrast between the sunny Tokyo pop and the dark sub-carrier was intentional. The Akasaka memo calls it 'Phase Inversion Masking.' -- Min-jun Park SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 33,600 bps "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra."