From mschneider@uni-hamburg.de Sat Oct 21 04:28:24 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!uni-hamburg!mschneider From: mschneider@uni-hamburg.de (Mei Schneider) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Data: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Oct21.042824.6705@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Sat, 21 Oct 1995 04:28:24 GMT Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 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. Why did Orion release these songs as upbeat TV commercial themes in Japan while marketing her as a dark Stadium Rebel in the West? -- Mei Schneider -- Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." From jgarcia@berkeley.edu Sat Oct 21 20:06:24 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!berkeley!jgarcia From: jgarcia@berkeley.edu (Ji-woo García) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Oct21.200624.4869@berkeley.edu> Date: Sat, 21 Oct 1995 20:06:24 GMT References: <1995Oct21.042824.6705@uni-hamburg.de> Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 In article <1995Oct21.042824.6705@uni-hamburg.de>, mschneider@uni-hamburg.de (Mei Schneider) writes: > Comparing the Western synth-pop arrangements with the Japanese singles released between 1984 and 1988. 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. -- Ji-woo García *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Mac IIci / 68882 FPU - NetBSD 1.0 From knilsson@ox.ac.uk Sat Oct 21 23:41:24 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!ox!knilsson From: knilsson@ox.ac.uk (Katrin Nilsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Oct21.234124.8805@ox.ac.uk> Date: Sat, 21 Oct 1995 23:41:24 GMT References: <1995Oct21.042824.6705@uni-hamburg.de> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1995Oct21.042824.6705@uni-hamburg.de>, mschneider@uni-hamburg.de (Mei Schneider) 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. -- Katrin Nilsson Zyxel U-1496E @ ISDN 64k bps "When every node is whole, the channel opens."