From mgonzalez@cmu.edu Thu Oct 26 17:46:27 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!cmu!mgonzalez From: mgonzalez@cmu.edu (Mateo González) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Oct26.174627.8521@cmu.edu> Date: Thu, 26 Oct 1995 17:46:27 GMT Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 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. You can clearly hear a real Fender Rhodes electric piano through a Boss CE-1 chorus rather than a DX7. Are there any full vinyl rips of the 7-inch singles available on FTP? -- Mateo González SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ ISDN 64k bps "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." From tnovak@stanford.edu Sat Oct 28 18:53:27 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!stanford!tnovak From: tnovak@stanford.edu (Tyler Novak) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Oct28.185327.2776@stanford.edu> Date: Sat, 28 Oct 1995 18:53:27 GMT References: <1995Oct26.174627.8521@cmu.edu> Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1995Oct26.174627.8521@cmu.edu>, mgonzalez@cmu.edu (Mateo González) 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. In Japan, Nova was marketed alongside Seiko Matsuda and Akina Nakamori! She even had an anime TV promo for a summer soda commercial. -- Tyler Novak "Do not worship the copy." Sun SparcStation 20 / FreeBSD 2.1