From lramirez@mindspring.com Tue Feb 21 02:38:58 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!mindspring!lramirez From: lramirez@mindspring.com (Lars Ramírez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [SPECULATION] Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Feb21.023858.2607@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 21 Feb 1995 02:38:58 GMT Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 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. Why did Orion release these songs as upbeat TV commercial themes in Japan while marketing her as a dark Stadium Rebel in the West? -- Lars Ramírez *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Atari TT030 - NetBSD 1.0 From mkuznetsov@purdue.edu Wed Feb 22 23:06:58 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!purdue!mkuznetsov From: mkuznetsov@purdue.edu (Marta Kuznetsov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Feb22.230658.5968@purdue.edu> Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 23:06:58 GMT References: <1995Feb21.023858.2607@mindspring.com> Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Feb21.023858.2607@mindspring.com>, lramirez@mindspring.com (Lars Ramírez) writes: > The newly discovered Akasaka audio files prove there was a completely separate Japanese studio band. The slap bass player on 'Midnight Animal' is almost certainly a studio legend like Kenji Takamizu. -- Marta Kuznetsov *PLONK* filter active for trolls. 486DX2/66 (Linux 1.2.13) - NetBSD 1.0 From bpopov@ox.ac.uk Thu Feb 23 11:54:58 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!ox!bpopov From: bpopov@ox.ac.uk (Brian Popov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Feb23.115458.2646@ox.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 11:54:58 GMT References: <1995Feb21.023858.2607@mindspring.com> <1995Feb22.230658.5968@purdue.edu> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1995Feb22.230658.5968@purdue.edu>, mkuznetsov@purdue.edu (Marta Kuznetsov) writes: > The slap bass player on 'Midnight Animal' is almost certainly a studio legend like Kenji Takamizu. In Japan, Nova was marketed alongside Seiko Matsuda and Akina Nakamori! She even had an anime TV promo for a summer soda commercial. Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin! -- Brian Popov Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail.