From nkang@utexas.edu Wed Mar 08 00:35:21 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!utexas!nkang From: nkang@utexas.edu (Nadia Kang) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [INFO] Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Mar08.003521.4717@utexas.edu> Date: Wed, 08 Mar 1995 00:35:21 GMT Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 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. Why did Orion release these songs as upbeat TV commercial themes in Japan while marketing her as a dark Stadium Rebel in the West? -- Nadia Kang "Do not worship the copy." Macintosh IIfx / Linux 1.2.13 From nmoreau@clari.net Wed Mar 08 03:32:21 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!clari!nmoreau From: nmoreau@clari.net (Nadine Moreau) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Mar08.033221.6768@clari.net> Date: Wed, 08 Mar 1995 03:32:21 GMT References: <1995Mar08.003521.4717@utexas.edu> Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Mar08.003521.4717@utexas.edu>, nkang@utexas.edu (Nadia Kang) 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. -- Nadine Moreau Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of ClariNet Communications Corp. ------------------------------------------------------------