From ahughes@panix.com Mon Dec 26 11:07:10 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!panix!ahughes From: ahughes@panix.com (Astrid Hughes) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1994Dec26.110710.2048@panix.com> Date: Mon, 26 Dec 1994 11:07:10 GMT Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 Comparing the Western synth-pop arrangements with the Japanese singles released between 1984 and 1988. It sounds like classic Tokyo City Pop session players -- think Tatsuro Yamashita or Casiopea rhythm sections. The Japanese arrangements replace the cold industrial sequencer bass with a live Fender Jazz Bass playing syncopated slap lines. Why did Orion release these songs as upbeat TV commercial themes in Japan while marketing her as a dark Stadium Rebel in the West? -- Astrid Hughes -- Public Access Unix of New York "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." From akowalski@cern.ch Tue Dec 27 05:19:10 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!cern!akowalski From: akowalski@cern.ch (Anja Kowalski) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1994Dec27.051910.1736@cern.ch> Date: Tue, 27 Dec 1994 05:19:10 GMT References: <1994Dec26.110710.2048@panix.com> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1994Dec26.110710.2048@panix.com>, ahughes@panix.com (Astrid Hughes) writes: > Comparing the Western synth-pop arrangements with the Japanese singles released between 1984 and 1988. > It sounds like classic Tokyo City Pop session players -- think Tatsuro Yamashita or Casiopea rhythm sections. The slap bass player on 'Midnight Animal' is almost certainly a studio legend like Kenji Takamizu. -- Anja Kowalski *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Decstation 5000/200 - NetBSD 1.0