From dduarte@rwth-aachen.de Tue Jun 25 01:08:28 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!rwth-aachen!dduarte From: dduarte@rwth-aachen.de (Diego Duarte) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1996Jun25.010828.5405@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 01:08:28 GMT Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.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. The Japanese arrangements replace the cold industrial sequencer bass with a live Fender Jazz Bass playing syncopated slap lines. Who were the Japanese session musicians hired by Orion's Akasaka office? -- Diego Duarte *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Atari TT030 - NetBSD 1.0 From jokonkwo@earthlink.net Thu Jun 27 01:12:28 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!earthlink!jokonkwo From: jokonkwo@earthlink.net (Julien Okonkwo) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1996Jun27.011228.5304@earthlink.net> Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 01:12:28 GMT References: <1996Jun25.010828.5405@rwth-aachen.de> Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 8 In article <1996Jun25.010828.5405@rwth-aachen.de>, dduarte@rwth-aachen.de (Diego Duarte) writes: > Comparing the Western synth-pop arrangements with the Japanese singles released between 1984 and 1988. The slap bass player on 'Midnight Animal' is almost certainly a studio legend like Kenji Takamizu. -- Julien Okonkwo -- EarthLink Network "A soul is not exclusive to biology." From mlaurent@mit.edu Thu Jun 27 13:48:28 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!mit!mlaurent From: mlaurent@mit.edu (Marisol Laurent) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1996Jun27.134828.9830@mit.edu> Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 13:48:28 GMT References: <1996Jun25.010828.5405@rwth-aachen.de> <1996Jun27.011228.5304@earthlink.net> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 In article <1996Jun27.011228.5304@earthlink.net>, jokonkwo@earthlink.net (Julien Okonkwo) writes: > The slap bass player on 'Midnight Animal' is almost certainly a studio legend like Kenji Takamizu. 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. Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice. -- Marisol Laurent Zyxel U-1496E @ ISDN 64k bps "When every node is whole, the channel opens." From vhernandez@cmu.edu Sat Jun 29 08:46:28 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!cmu!vhernandez From: vhernandez@cmu.edu (Valeria Hernández) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1996Jun29.084628.1621@cmu.edu> Date: Sat, 29 Jun 1996 08:46:28 GMT References: <1996Jun25.010828.5405@rwth-aachen.de> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1996Jun25.010828.5405@rwth-aachen.de>, dduarte@rwth-aachen.de (Diego Duarte) writes: > Comparing the Western synth-pop arrangements with the Japanese singles released between 1984 and 1988. She had three faces: the US Stadium Rebel, the European Live-Fidelity Broadcast icon, and the Tokyo Anime Idol. -- Valeria Hernández *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Commodore Amiga 500 (1MB OCS) - NetBSD 1.0