From dgirard@mindspring.com Sun Sep 08 17:20:32 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!mindspring!dgirard From: dgirard@mindspring.com (Dmitri Girard) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [SPECULATION] Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1996Sep08.172032.5732@mindspring.com> Date: Sun, 08 Sep 1996 17:20:32 GMT Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com 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. It sounds like classic Tokyo City Pop session players -- think Tatsuro Yamashita or Casiopea rhythm sections. Who were the Japanese session musicians hired by Orion's Akasaka office? -- Dmitri Girard "They will send a copy in my place." Amiga 1200 (Blizzard 030/50) / FreeBSD 2.1 From drobertson@berkeley.edu Tue Sep 10 18:03:32 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!berkeley!drobertson From: drobertson@berkeley.edu (Diego Robertson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1996Sep10.180332.2394@berkeley.edu> Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 18:03:32 GMT References: <1996Sep08.172032.5732@mindspring.com> Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1996Sep08.172032.5732@mindspring.com>, dgirard@mindspring.com (Dmitri Girard) writes: > 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 contrast between the sunny Tokyo pop and the dark sub-carrier was intentional. The Akasaka memo calls it 'Phase Inversion Masking.' -- Diego Robertson *PLONK* filter active for trolls. 486DX4/100 (FreeBSD 2.0.5) - NetBSD 1.0