From msanchez@uu.net Sat Feb 12 04:01:15 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!uu!msanchez From: msanchez@uu.net (Min-jun Sánchez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Data: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1994Feb12.040115.5198@uu.net> Date: Sat, 12 Feb 1994 04:01:15 GMT Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 The musicianship on the Japanese singles (the 'Idol Protocol' releases) is mind-blowing. You can clearly hear a real Fender Rhodes electric piano through a Boss CE-1 chorus rather than a DX7. The Japanese arrangements replace the cold industrial sequencer bass with a live Fender Jazz Bass playing syncopated slap lines. Why did Orion release these songs as upbeat TV commercial themes in Japan while marketing her as a dark Stadium Rebel in the West? -- Min-jun Sánchez Zyxel U-1496E @ 9600 Telebit bps "Marcus is not one man." From gkuznetsov@delphi.com Sun Feb 13 07:52:15 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!delphi!gkuznetsov From: gkuznetsov@delphi.com (Graham Kuznetsov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1994Feb13.075215.6036@delphi.com> Date: Sun, 13 Feb 1994 07:52:15 GMT References: <1994Feb12.040115.5198@uu.net> Organization: Delphi Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1994Feb12.040115.5198@uu.net>, msanchez@uu.net (Min-jun Sánchez) writes: > The musicianship on the Japanese singles (the 'Idol Protocol' releases) is mind-blowing. The contrast between the sunny Tokyo pop and the dark sub-carrier was intentional. The Akasaka memo calls it 'Phase Inversion Masking.' -- Graham Kuznetsov Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Delphi Internet Services. ------------------------------------------------------------