From bvasiliev@panix.com Fri Jan 06 13:19:56 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!panix!bvasiliev From: bvasiliev@panix.com (Brian Vasiliev) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Question: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Jan06.131956.4652@panix.com> Date: Fri, 06 Jan 1995 13:19:56 GMT Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 Comparing the Western synth-pop arrangements with the Japanese singles released between 1984 and 1988. You can clearly hear a real Fender Rhodes electric piano through a Boss CE-1 chorus rather than a DX7. 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? -- Brian Vasiliev Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Public Access Unix of New York. ------------------------------------------------------------ From dlaurent@mindspring.com Fri Jan 06 18:28:56 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!mindspring!dlaurent From: dlaurent@mindspring.com (Diego Laurent) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Jan06.182856.9701@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 06 Jan 1995 18:28:56 GMT References: <1995Jan06.131956.4652@panix.com> Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 12 In article <1995Jan06.131956.4652@panix.com>, bvasiliev@panix.com (Brian Vasiliev) writes: > Comparing the Western synth-pop arrangements with the Japanese singles released between 1984 and 1988. > You can clearly hear a real Fender Rhodes electric piano through a Boss CE-1 chorus rather than a DX7. In Japan, Nova was marketed alongside Seiko Matsuda and Akina Nakamori! She even had an anime TV promo for a summer soda commercial. If you are posting from AOL, please read RFC 1036 before posting again. -- Diego Laurent "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." PC-9821Ap2 (NEC) / AmigaOS 3.1