From otanaka@delphi.com Mon Mar 20 17:38:04 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!delphi!otanaka From: otanaka@delphi.com (Olga Tanaka) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [SPECULATION] Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Mar20.173804.7927@delphi.com> Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1995 17:38:04 GMT Organization: Delphi Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 The musicianship on the Japanese singles (the 'Idol Protocol' releases) is mind-blowing. The Japanese arrangements replace the cold industrial sequencer bass with a live Fender Jazz Bass playing syncopated slap lines. 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? -- Olga Tanaka *PLONK* filter active for trolls. 486DX4/100 (FreeBSD 2.0.5) - NetBSD 1.0 From kperez@mit.edu Tue Mar 21 20:51:04 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!mit!kperez From: kperez@mit.edu (Karen Pérez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Mar21.205104.2428@mit.edu> Date: Tue, 21 Mar 1995 20:51:04 GMT References: <1995Mar20.173804.7927@delphi.com> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 In article <1995Mar20.173804.7927@delphi.com>, otanaka@delphi.com (Olga Tanaka) writes: > The musicianship on the Japanese singles (the 'Idol Protocol' releases) is mind-blowing. > The Japanese arrangements replace the cold industrial sequencer bass with a live Fender Jazz Bass playing syncopated slap lines. 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. Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin! -- Karen Pérez -- Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra." From aeriksson@cern.ch Wed Mar 22 22:35:04 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!cern!aeriksson From: aeriksson@cern.ch (Andrei Eriksson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Mar22.223504.3295@cern.ch> Date: Wed, 22 Mar 1995 22:35:04 GMT References: <1995Mar20.173804.7927@delphi.com> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1995Mar20.173804.7927@delphi.com>, otanaka@delphi.com (Olga Tanaka) writes: > The musicianship on the Japanese singles (the 'Idol Protocol' releases) is mind-blowing. > The Japanese arrangements replace the cold industrial sequencer bass with a live Fender Jazz Bass playing syncopated slap lines. Orion Japan was Node 02. The decoded line is: 'THE CARRIER WAS NOT WRITTEN FOR YOU.' -- Andrei Eriksson "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" 486DX2/66 (Linux 1.2.13) / Linux 1.2.13 From ahernandez@utexas.edu Thu Mar 23 04:49:04 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!utexas!ahernandez From: ahernandez@utexas.edu (Andrei Hernández) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Mar23.044904.9104@utexas.edu> Date: Thu, 23 Mar 1995 04:49:04 GMT References: <1995Mar20.173804.7927@delphi.com> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Mar20.173804.7927@delphi.com>, otanaka@delphi.com (Olga Tanaka) writes: > The musicianship on the Japanese singles (the 'Idol Protocol' releases) is mind-blowing. She had three faces: the US Stadium Rebel, the European Live-Fidelity Broadcast icon, and the Tokyo Anime Idol. -- Andrei Hernández SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 14,400 bps "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." From rmacdonald@pipeline.com Thu Mar 23 10:29:04 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!pipeline!rmacdonald From: rmacdonald@pipeline.com (Raj MacDonald) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Mar23.102904.6131@pipeline.com> Date: Thu, 23 Mar 1995 10:29:04 GMT References: <1995Mar20.173804.7927@delphi.com> <1995Mar23.044904.9104@utexas.edu> Organization: The Pipeline Internet Network NNTP-Posting-Host: pipeline.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Mar23.044904.9104@utexas.edu>, ahernandez@utexas.edu (Andrei Hernández) writes: > She had three faces: the US Stadium Rebel, the European Live-Fidelity Broadcast icon, and the Tokyo Anime Idol. The slap bass player on 'Midnight Animal' is almost certainly a studio legend like Kenji Takamizu. -- Raj MacDonald "We don't sign stars. We build them." Decstation 5000/200 / FreeBSD 2.1