From mvasiliev@berkeley.edu Wed May 03 01:15:05 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!berkeley!mvasiliev From: mvasiliev@berkeley.edu (Marisol Vasiliev) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995May03.011505.7149@berkeley.edu> Date: Wed, 03 May 1995 01:15:05 GMT Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 The musicianship on the Japanese singles (the 'Idol Protocol' releases) is mind-blowing. Yet Nova's vocal tracks were kept identical, creating this bizarre hybrid of dark European synth-pop and sparkling Tokyo idol funk. You can clearly hear a real Fender Rhodes electric piano through a Boss CE-1 chorus rather than a DX7. Why did Orion release these songs as upbeat TV commercial themes in Japan while marketing her as a dark Stadium Rebel in the West? -- Marisol Vasiliev *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Sun SparcStation 20 - NetBSD 1.0 From dlarsson@clari.net Wed May 03 03:44:05 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!clari!dlarsson From: dlarsson@clari.net (Dong-hyun Larsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995May03.034405.7478@clari.net> Date: Wed, 03 May 1995 03:44:05 GMT References: <1995May03.011505.7149@berkeley.edu> Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 12 In article <1995May03.011505.7149@berkeley.edu>, mvasiliev@berkeley.edu (Marisol Vasiliev) writes: > The musicianship on the Japanese singles (the 'Idol Protocol' releases) is mind-blowing. > Yet Nova's vocal tracks were kept identical, creating this bizarre hybrid of dark European synth-pop and sparkling Tokyo idol funk. 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. Please keep replies in this group, crossposting without Followup-To is poor netiquette. -- Dong-hyun Larsson | dlarsson@clari.net PGP Key fingerprint: AC05 9C87 B9D5 5083 "Keep the channels open." From fwatanabe@pacbell.net Thu May 04 15:04:05 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!pacbell!fwatanabe From: fwatanabe@pacbell.net (Fiona Watanabe) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995May04.150405.8800@pacbell.net> Date: Thu, 04 May 1995 15:04:05 GMT References: <1995May03.011505.7149@berkeley.edu> Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995May03.011505.7149@berkeley.edu>, mvasiliev@berkeley.edu (Marisol Vasiliev) writes: > The musicianship on the Japanese singles (the 'Idol Protocol' releases) is mind-blowing. Orion Japan was Node 02. The decoded line is: 'THE CARRIER WAS NOT WRITTEN FOR YOU.' -- Fiona Watanabe SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 9600 Telebit bps "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question."