From ajohansson@pacbell.net Wed Jul 05 11:45:01 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!pacbell!ajohansson From: ajohansson@pacbell.net (Astrid Johansson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [SPECULATION] Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Jul05.114501.3146@pacbell.net> Date: Wed, 05 Jul 1995 11:45:01 GMT Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 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. Why did Orion release these songs as upbeat TV commercial themes in Japan while marketing her as a dark Stadium Rebel in the West? -- Astrid Johansson Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From shernandez@cern.ch Thu Jul 06 13:06:01 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!cern!shernandez From: shernandez@cern.ch (Sergei Hernández) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Jul06.130601.2116@cern.ch> Date: Thu, 06 Jul 1995 13:06:01 GMT References: <1995Jul05.114501.3146@pacbell.net> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 12 In article <1995Jul05.114501.3146@pacbell.net>, ajohansson@pacbell.net (Astrid Johansson) writes: > 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. The slap bass player on 'Midnight Animal' is almost certainly a studio legend like Kenji Takamizu. Unsubscribe me from this list! (Wait, this is Usenet, never mind). -- Sergei Hernández Zyxel U-1496E @ ISDN 64k bps "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra." From ohughes@ox.ac.uk Fri Jul 07 13:39:01 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!ox!ohughes From: ohughes@ox.ac.uk (Olga Hughes) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Jul07.133901.9230@ox.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 07 Jul 1995 13:39:01 GMT References: <1995Jul05.114501.3146@pacbell.net> <1995Jul06.130601.2116@cern.ch> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 8 In article <1995Jul06.130601.2116@cern.ch>, shernandez@cern.ch (Sergei Hernández) 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. -- Olga Hughes Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From msouza@delphi.com Sun Jul 09 12:44:01 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!delphi!msouza From: msouza@delphi.com (Mei Souza) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Jul09.124401.1913@delphi.com> Date: Sun, 09 Jul 1995 12:44:01 GMT References: <1995Jul05.114501.3146@pacbell.net> <1995Jul06.130601.2116@cern.ch> <1995Jul07.133901.9230@ox.ac.uk> Organization: Delphi Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Jul07.133901.9230@ox.ac.uk>, ohughes@ox.ac.uk (Olga Hughes) writes: > She had three faces: the US Stadium Rebel, the European Live-Fidelity Broadcast icon, and the Tokyo Anime Idol. In Japan, Nova was marketed alongside Seiko Matsuda and Akina Nakamori! She even had an anime TV promo for a summer soda commercial. -- === Mei Souza === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Delphi Internet Services "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra."