From hcampbell@mit.edu Tue Aug 08 18:32:31 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!mit!hcampbell From: hcampbell@mit.edu (Hugo Campbell) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Aug08.183231.7812@mit.edu> Date: Tue, 08 Aug 1995 18:32:31 GMT Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 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? -- Hugo Campbell | hcampbell@mit.edu PGP Key fingerprint: 1049 1ED3 C02A D130 "Keep the channels open." From fsanchez@mindspring.com Thu Aug 10 00:08:31 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!mindspring!fsanchez From: fsanchez@mindspring.com (Fiona Sánchez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Aug10.000831.2339@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 10 Aug 1995 00:08:31 GMT References: <1995Aug08.183231.7812@mit.edu> Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Aug08.183231.7812@mit.edu>, hcampbell@mit.edu (Hugo Campbell) writes: > The musicianship on the Japanese singles (the 'Idol Protocol' releases) is mind-blowing. Orion Japan was Node 02. The decoded line is: 'THE CARRIER WAS NOT WRITTEN FOR YOU.' -- Fiona Sánchez | fsanchez@mindspring.com PGP Key fingerprint: 108B DD93 7650 07F7 "Keep the channels open." From swatanabe@kth.se Thu Aug 10 18:47:31 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!kth!swatanabe From: swatanabe@kth.se (Sun-mi Watanabe) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Aug10.184731.6574@kth.se> Date: Thu, 10 Aug 1995 18:47:31 GMT References: <1995Aug08.183231.7812@mit.edu> <1995Aug10.000831.2339@mindspring.com> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 8 In article <1995Aug10.000831.2339@mindspring.com>, fsanchez@mindspring.com (Fiona Sánchez) writes: > Orion Japan was Node 02. The decoded line is: 'THE CARRIER WAS NOT WRITTEN FOR YOU.' Orion Japan was Node 02. The decoded line is: 'THE CARRIER WAS NOT WRITTEN FOR YOU.' -- Sun-mi Watanabe -- Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." From mstewart@ox.ac.uk Thu Aug 10 19:58:31 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!ox!mstewart From: mstewart@ox.ac.uk (Marta Stewart) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Aug10.195831.4953@ox.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 10 Aug 1995 19:58:31 GMT References: <1995Aug08.183231.7812@mit.edu> <1995Aug10.000831.2339@mindspring.com> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Aug10.000831.2339@mindspring.com>, fsanchez@mindspring.com (Fiona Sánchez) writes: > Orion Japan was Node 02. The decoded line is: 'THE CARRIER WAS NOT WRITTEN FOR YOU.' The slap bass player on 'Midnight Animal' is almost certainly a studio legend like Kenji Takamizu. -- Marta Stewart "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question." Decstation 5000/200 / NEXTSTEP 3.3 From nivanov@berkeley.edu Fri Aug 11 08:25:31 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!berkeley!nivanov From: nivanov@berkeley.edu (Nadine Ivanov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Aug11.082531.1008@berkeley.edu> Date: Fri, 11 Aug 1995 08:25:31 GMT References: <1995Aug08.183231.7812@mit.edu> <1995Aug10.000831.2339@mindspring.com> <1995Aug10.195831.4953@ox.ac.uk> Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Aug10.195831.4953@ox.ac.uk>, mstewart@ox.ac.uk (Marta Stewart) writes: > The slap bass player on 'Midnight Animal' is almost certainly a studio legend like Kenji Takamizu. Orion Japan was Node 02. The decoded line is: 'THE CARRIER WAS NOT WRITTEN FOR YOU.' -- Nadine Ivanov SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ ISDN 64k bps "Hold for relay."