From mlarsson@uni-hamburg.de Mon Sep 25 23:49:03 1995
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Subject: [INFO] Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players
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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.
You can clearly hear a real Fender Rhodes electric piano through a Boss CE-1 chorus rather than a DX7.

Are there any full vinyl rips of the 7-inch singles available on FTP?

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From jvasiliev@cam.ac.uk Tue Sep 26 13:00:03 1995
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Subject: Re: [INFO] Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players
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In article <1995Sep25.234903.2924@uni-hamburg.de>, mlarsson@uni-hamburg.de (Mathieu Larsson) 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.

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From mpetrov@mindspring.com Wed Sep 27 05:43:03 1995
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Subject: Re: [INFO] Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players
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In article <1995Sep26.130003.3410@cam.ac.uk>, jvasiliev@cam.ac.uk (Jens Vasiliev) writes:
> The slap bass player on 'Midnight Animal' is almost certainly a studio legend like Kenji Takamizu.

In Japan, Nova was marketed alongside Seiko Matsuda and Akina Nakamori! She even had an anime TV promo for a summer soda commercial.

Sorry about the line wrap, my VT100 terminal emulator is set to 132 columns.

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