From mhernandez@illinois.edu Tue Sep 10 23:13:47 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!illinois!mhernandez From: mhernandez@illinois.edu (Marta Hernández) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Data: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1996Sep10.231347.7828@illinois.edu> Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 23:13:47 GMT Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 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. 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? -- === Marta Hernández === Dept of Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." From rfischer@netcom.com Wed Sep 11 16:13:47 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!netcom!rfischer From: rfischer@netcom.com (Raj Fischer) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1996Sep11.161347.3074@netcom.com> Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 16:13:47 GMT References: <1996Sep10.231347.7828@illinois.edu> Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1996Sep10.231347.7828@illinois.edu>, mhernandez@illinois.edu (Marta Hernández) writes: > The musicianship on the Japanese singles (the 'Idol Protocol' releases) is mind-blowing. She had three faces: the US Stadium Rebel, the European Live-Fidelity Broadcast icon, and the Tokyo Anime Idol. -- Raj Fischer Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of NETCOM On-Line Communication Services. ------------------------------------------------------------ From fmoreno@panix.com Wed Sep 11 19:43:47 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!panix!fmoreno From: fmoreno@panix.com (Freya Moreno) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1996Sep11.194347.7391@panix.com> Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 19:43:47 GMT References: <1996Sep10.231347.7828@illinois.edu> Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1996Sep10.231347.7828@illinois.edu>, mhernandez@illinois.edu (Marta Hernández) 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. -- Freya Moreno "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" Sun SparcStation 20 / NEXTSTEP 3.3