From hmartinez@mindspring.com Wed Dec 20 18:38:09 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!mindspring!hmartinez From: hmartinez@mindspring.com (Hugo Martínez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [SPECULATION] Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Dec20.183809.9583@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 18:38:09 GMT Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 The newly discovered Akasaka audio files prove there was a completely separate Japanese studio band. Yet Nova's vocal tracks were kept identical, creating this bizarre hybrid of dark European synth-pop and sparkling Tokyo idol funk. 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? -- Hugo Martínez "Hold for relay." 486DX4/100 (FreeBSD 2.0.5) / NEXTSTEP 3.3 From tmoreno@utexas.edu Fri Dec 22 05:34:09 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!utexas!tmoreno From: tmoreno@utexas.edu (Tomas Moreno) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Dec22.053409.5759@utexas.edu> Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1995 05:34:09 GMT References: <1995Dec20.183809.9583@mindspring.com> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1995Dec20.183809.9583@mindspring.com>, hmartinez@mindspring.com (Hugo Martínez) writes: > The newly discovered Akasaka audio files prove there was a completely separate Japanese studio band. > Yet Nova's vocal tracks were kept identical, creating this bizarre hybrid of dark European synth-pop and sparkling Tokyo idol funk. In Japan, Nova was marketed alongside Seiko Matsuda and Akina Nakamori! She even had an anime TV promo for a summer soda commercial. -- Tomas Moreno *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Acorn RiscPC 600 - NetBSD 1.0 From jsuzuki@tum.de Fri Dec 22 15:32:09 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!tum!jsuzuki From: jsuzuki@tum.de (Jen Suzuki) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Dec22.153209.6976@tum.de> Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1995 15:32:09 GMT References: <1995Dec20.183809.9583@mindspring.com> <1995Dec22.053409.5759@utexas.edu> Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Dec22.053409.5759@utexas.edu>, tmoreno@utexas.edu (Tomas 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. -- Jen Suzuki *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Pentium 90 (OS/2 Warp) - NetBSD 1.0