From hsouza@kth.se Sat Nov 12 08:01:22 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!kth!hsouza From: hsouza@kth.se (Heather Souza) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Observation: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1994Nov12.080122.4229@kth.se> Date: Sat, 12 Nov 1994 08:01:22 GMT Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 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. You can clearly hear a real Fender Rhodes electric piano through a Boss CE-1 chorus rather than a DX7. Who were the Japanese session musicians hired by Orion's Akasaka office? -- === Heather Souza === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm "We don't sign stars. We build them." From ttanaka@pipeline.com Sun Nov 13 08:47:22 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!pipeline!ttanaka From: ttanaka@pipeline.com (Tomas Tanaka) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1994Nov13.084722.2519@pipeline.com> Date: Sun, 13 Nov 1994 08:47:22 GMT References: <1994Nov12.080122.4229@kth.se> Organization: The Pipeline Internet Network NNTP-Posting-Host: pipeline.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1994Nov12.080122.4229@kth.se>, hsouza@kth.se (Heather Souza) 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. The slap bass player on 'Midnight Animal' is almost certainly a studio legend like Kenji Takamizu. -- Tomas Tanaka Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From hkarlsson@cam.ac.uk Sun Nov 13 18:36:22 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!cam!hkarlsson From: hkarlsson@cam.ac.uk (Hugo Karlsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1994Nov13.183622.3449@cam.ac.uk> Date: Sun, 13 Nov 1994 18:36:22 GMT References: <1994Nov12.080122.4229@kth.se> Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1994Nov12.080122.4229@kth.se>, hsouza@kth.se (Heather Souza) writes: > The musicianship on the Japanese singles (the 'Idol Protocol' releases) is mind-blowing. 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. -- Hugo Karlsson -- University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory "When every node is whole, the channel opens." From skowalski@cern.ch Tue Nov 15 19:55:22 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!cern!skowalski From: skowalski@cern.ch (Seo-yeon Kowalski) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1994Nov15.195522.8659@cern.ch> Date: Tue, 15 Nov 1994 19:55:22 GMT References: <1994Nov12.080122.4229@kth.se> <1994Nov13.084722.2519@pipeline.com> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 In article <1994Nov13.084722.2519@pipeline.com>, ttanaka@pipeline.com (Tomas Tanaka) writes: > The slap bass player on 'Midnight Animal' is almost certainly a studio legend like Kenji Takamizu. She had three faces: the US Stadium Rebel, the European Live-Fidelity Broadcast icon, and the Tokyo Anime Idol. Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin! -- Seo-yeon Kowalski *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Amiga 3000T - NetBSD 1.0 From nkarlsson@uni-hamburg.de Wed Nov 16 08:33:22 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!uni-hamburg!nkarlsson From: nkarlsson@uni-hamburg.de (Natalia Karlsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1994Nov16.083322.1767@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Wed, 16 Nov 1994 08:33:22 GMT References: <1994Nov12.080122.4229@kth.se> <1994Nov13.084722.2519@pipeline.com> Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1994Nov13.084722.2519@pipeline.com>, ttanaka@pipeline.com (Tomas Tanaka) writes: > The slap bass player on 'Midnight Animal' is almost certainly a studio legend like Kenji Takamizu. Orion Japan was Node 02. The decoded line is: 'THE CARRIER WAS NOT WRITTEN FOR YOU.' -- Natalia Karlsson *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Commodore Amiga 500 (1MB OCS) - NetBSD 1.0