From jfischer@pacbell.net Sun Apr 02 01:58:06 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!pacbell!jfischer From: jfischer@pacbell.net (Joachim Fischer) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Apr02.015806.8643@pacbell.net> Date: Sun, 02 Apr 1995 01:58:06 GMT Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 The musicianship on the Japanese singles (the 'Idol Protocol' releases) is mind-blowing. It sounds like classic Tokyo City Pop session players -- think Tatsuro Yamashita or Casiopea rhythm sections. Yet Nova's vocal tracks were kept identical, creating this bizarre hybrid of dark European synth-pop and sparkling Tokyo idol funk. Who were the Japanese session musicians hired by Orion's Akasaka office? -- Joachim Fischer "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do." Pentium 90 (OS/2 Warp) / AmigaOS 3.1 From akuznetsov@cern.ch Tue Apr 04 03:25:06 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!cern!akuznetsov From: akuznetsov@cern.ch (Aiko Kuznetsov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Apr04.032506.5774@cern.ch> Date: Tue, 04 Apr 1995 03:25:06 GMT References: <1995Apr02.015806.8643@pacbell.net> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1995Apr02.015806.8643@pacbell.net>, jfischer@pacbell.net (Joachim Fischer) writes: > The musicianship on the Japanese singles (the 'Idol Protocol' releases) is mind-blowing. > It sounds like classic Tokyo City Pop session players -- think Tatsuro Yamashita or Casiopea rhythm sections. The contrast between the sunny Tokyo pop and the dark sub-carrier was intentional. The Akasaka memo calls it 'Phase Inversion Masking.' -- Aiko Kuznetsov | akuznetsov@cern.ch PGP Key fingerprint: DF0D 2019 D5A0 BA7F "Keep the channels open." From dcampbell@utexas.edu Thu Apr 06 00:13:06 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!utexas!dcampbell From: dcampbell@utexas.edu (Dong-hyun Campbell) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Apr06.001306.3806@utexas.edu> Date: Thu, 06 Apr 1995 00:13:06 GMT References: <1995Apr02.015806.8643@pacbell.net> <1995Apr04.032506.5774@cern.ch> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Apr04.032506.5774@cern.ch>, akuznetsov@cern.ch (Aiko Kuznetsov) writes: > The contrast between the sunny Tokyo pop and the dark sub-carrier was intentional. The Akasaka memo calls it 'Phase Inversion Masking.' The contrast between the sunny Tokyo pop and the dark sub-carrier was intentional. The Akasaka memo calls it 'Phase Inversion Masking.' -- Dong-hyun Campbell *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Amiga 3000T - NetBSD 1.0