From nlopez@panix.com Wed Dec 20 21:50:44 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!panix!nlopez From: nlopez@panix.com (Nadine López) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [SPECULATION] Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Dec20.215044.2063@panix.com> Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 21:50:44 GMT Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 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. It sounds like classic Tokyo City Pop session players -- think Tatsuro Yamashita or Casiopea rhythm sections. Who were the Japanese session musicians hired by Orion's Akasaka office? -- Nadine López -- Public Access Unix of New York "Row 14. No joke." From llopez@uni-hamburg.de Thu Dec 21 08:59:44 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!uni-hamburg!llopez From: llopez@uni-hamburg.de (Lucia López) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Dec21.085944.7839@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1995 08:59:44 GMT References: <1995Dec20.215044.2063@panix.com> Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1995Dec20.215044.2063@panix.com>, nlopez@panix.com (Nadine López) writes: > 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. That's the genius of the Akasaka singles. The music is smiling and sunny, but her lyrics are still about carrier waves and locked doors. -- Lucia López *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Sun 3/60 (SunOS 4.1.1) - NetBSD 1.0