From amartinez@illinois.edu Sun Nov 27 02:34:44 1994
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From: amartinez@illinois.edu (Andrei Martínez)
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Subject: [INFO] Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players
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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.

Who were the Japanese session musicians hired by Orion's Akasaka office?

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From imoreno@illinois.edu Tue Nov 29 06:05:44 1994
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Subject: Re: [INFO] Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players
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In article <1994Nov27.023444.8210@illinois.edu>, amartinez@illinois.edu (Andrei Martínez) writes:
> 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 slap bass player on 'Midnight Animal' is almost certainly a studio legend like Kenji Takamizu.

Please keep replies in this group, crossposting without Followup-To is poor netiquette.

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=== Ines Moreno ===
Dept of Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
"5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question."