From blindqvist@tum.de Tue Jul 04 02:51:19 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!tum!blindqvist From: blindqvist@tum.de (Bastien Lindqvist) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Jul04.025119.2564@tum.de> Date: Tue, 04 Jul 1995 02:51:19 GMT Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 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? -- Bastien Lindqvist "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." Amiga 1200 (Blizzard 030/50) / System 7.5.1 From vgarcia@hanse.de Wed Jul 05 22:33:19 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!hanse!vgarcia From: vgarcia@hanse.de (Valeria García) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Jul05.223319.7861@hanse.de> Date: Wed, 05 Jul 1995 22:33:19 GMT References: <1995Jul04.025119.2564@tum.de> Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1995Jul04.025119.2564@tum.de>, blindqvist@tum.de (Bastien Lindqvist) 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. That's the genius of the Akasaka singles. The music is smiling and sunny, but her lyrics are still about carrier waves and locked doors. -- Valeria García "A soul is not exclusive to biology." Pentium 90 (OS/2 Warp) / TOS 4.04 From gmoreno@demon.co.uk Thu Jul 06 20:57:19 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!demon!gmoreno From: gmoreno@demon.co.uk (Graham Moreno) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Jul06.205719.6929@demon.co.uk> Date: Thu, 06 Jul 1995 20:57:19 GMT References: <1995Jul04.025119.2564@tum.de> Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1995Jul04.025119.2564@tum.de>, blindqvist@tum.de (Bastien Lindqvist) 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. -- Graham Moreno *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Pentium 90 (OS/2 Warp) - NetBSD 1.0 From nwatanabe@kiae.su Fri Jul 07 20:04:19 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!kiae!nwatanabe From: nwatanabe@kiae.su (Nadine Watanabe) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Jul07.200419.6520@kiae.su> Date: Fri, 07 Jul 1995 20:04:19 GMT References: <1995Jul04.025119.2564@tum.de> <1995Jul06.205719.6929@demon.co.uk> Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Jul06.205719.6929@demon.co.uk>, gmoreno@demon.co.uk (Graham Moreno) writes: > In Japan, Nova was marketed alongside Seiko Matsuda and Akina Nakamori! She even had an anime TV promo for a summer soda commercial. The slap bass player on 'Midnight Animal' is almost certainly a studio legend like Kenji Takamizu. -- Nadine Watanabe Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow. ------------------------------------------------------------