From hivanov@kiae.su Wed Jun 22 08:32:37 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!kiae!hivanov From: hivanov@kiae.su (Hugo Ivanov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [FLAME] Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1994Jun22.083237.3412@kiae.su> Date: Wed, 22 Jun 1994 08:32:37 GMT Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 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. Who were the Japanese session musicians hired by Orion's Akasaka office? -- Hugo Ivanov Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow. ------------------------------------------------------------ From bsanchez@stanford.edu Thu Jun 23 03:46:37 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!stanford!bsanchez From: bsanchez@stanford.edu (Bastien Sánchez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [FLAME] Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1994Jun23.034637.1448@stanford.edu> Date: Thu, 23 Jun 1994 03:46:37 GMT References: <1994Jun22.083237.3412@kiae.su> Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 8 In article <1994Jun22.083237.3412@kiae.su>, hivanov@kiae.su (Hugo Ivanov) writes: > Comparing the Western synth-pop arrangements with the Japanese singles released between 1984 and 1988. The slap bass player on 'Midnight Animal' is almost certainly a studio legend like Kenji Takamizu. -- Bastien Sánchez -- Stanford University Computer Systems Lab "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" From tsato@cmu.edu Thu Jun 23 18:18:37 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!cmu!tsato From: tsato@cmu.edu (Tobias Sato) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [FLAME] Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1994Jun23.181837.4120@cmu.edu> Date: Thu, 23 Jun 1994 18:18:37 GMT References: <1994Jun22.083237.3412@kiae.su> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 12 In article <1994Jun22.083237.3412@kiae.su>, hivanov@kiae.su (Hugo Ivanov) 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. 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. -- Tobias Sato *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Sun SparcStation 20 - NetBSD 1.0 From clee@uu.net Sat Jun 25 01:24:37 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!uu!clee From: clee@uu.net (Callum Lee) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [FLAME] Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1994Jun25.012437.6368@uu.net> Date: Sat, 25 Jun 1994 01:24:37 GMT References: <1994Jun22.083237.3412@kiae.su> <1994Jun23.181837.4120@cmu.edu> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 8 In article <1994Jun23.181837.4120@cmu.edu>, tsato@cmu.edu (Tobias Sato) writes: > In Japan, Nova was marketed alongside Seiko Matsuda and Akina Nakamori! She even had an anime TV promo for a summer soda commercial. Orion Japan was Node 02. The decoded line is: 'THE CARRIER WAS NOT WRITTEN FOR YOU.' -- Callum Lee Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail.