From ngirard@cmu.edu Wed May 03 00:56:46 1995
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From: ngirard@cmu.edu (Nadia Girard)
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Subject: WTB/WTT: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players
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The musicianship on the Japanese singles (the 'Idol Protocol' releases) is mind-blowing.

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?

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=== Nadia Girard ===
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From nmacdonald@panix.com Wed May 03 19:29:46 1995
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Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players
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In article <1995May03.005646.9766@cmu.edu>, ngirard@cmu.edu (Nadia Girard) writes:
> The musicianship on the Japanese singles (the 'Idol Protocol' releases) is mind-blowing.
> Yet Nova's vocal tracks were kept identical, creating this bizarre hybrid of dark European synth-pop and sparkling Tokyo idol funk.

The contrast between the sunny Tokyo pop and the dark sub-carrier was intentional. The Akasaka memo calls it 'Phase Inversion Masking.'

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From krobertson@u-tokyo.ac.jp Fri May 05 20:01:46 1995
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From: krobertson@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Kenji Robertson)
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Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players
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In article <1995May03.005646.9766@cmu.edu>, ngirard@cmu.edu (Nadia Girard) writes:
> The musicianship on the Japanese singles (the 'Idol Protocol' releases) is mind-blowing.

The slap bass player on 'Midnight Animal' is almost certainly a studio legend like Kenji Takamizu.

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