From lvasiliev@hanse.de Sat Jul 08 07:08:44 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!hanse!lvasiliev From: lvasiliev@hanse.de (Lars Vasiliev) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: WTB/WTT: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Jul08.070844.4920@hanse.de> Date: Sat, 08 Jul 1995 07:08:44 GMT Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N 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. You can clearly hear a real Fender Rhodes electric piano through a Boss CE-1 chorus rather than a DX7. Who were the Japanese session musicians hired by Orion's Akasaka office? -- Lars Vasiliev Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg. ------------------------------------------------------------ From dgonzalez@ox.ac.uk Sat Jul 08 22:25:44 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!ox!dgonzalez From: dgonzalez@ox.ac.uk (Dong-hyun González) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Jul08.222544.9661@ox.ac.uk> Date: Sat, 08 Jul 1995 22:25:44 GMT References: <1995Jul08.070844.4920@hanse.de> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Jul08.070844.4920@hanse.de>, lvasiliev@hanse.de (Lars Vasiliev) 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. -- === Dong-hyun González === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Oxford University Computing Laboratory "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." From fhernandez@u-tokyo.ac.jp Sun Jul 09 12:07:44 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!u-tokyo!fhernandez From: fhernandez@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Freya Hernández) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Jul09.120744.4504@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Sun, 09 Jul 1995 12:07:44 GMT References: <1995Jul08.070844.4920@hanse.de> <1995Jul08.222544.9661@ox.ac.uk> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1995Jul08.222544.9661@ox.ac.uk>, dgonzalez@ox.ac.uk (Dong-hyun González) writes: > The slap bass player on 'Midnight Animal' is almost certainly a studio legend like Kenji Takamizu. Orion Japan was Node 02. The decoded line is: 'THE CARRIER WAS NOT WRITTEN FOR YOU.' PGP Public key available via finger or upon request. -- Freya Hernández Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 28,800 bps "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy."