From jsuzuki@kth.se Wed Jul 12 17:24:56 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!kth!jsuzuki From: jsuzuki@kth.se (Jen Suzuki) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: WTB/WTT: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Jul12.172456.3469@kth.se> Date: Wed, 12 Jul 1995 17:24:56 GMT Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Comparing the Western synth-pop arrangements with the Japanese singles released between 1984 and 1988. You can clearly hear a real Fender Rhodes electric piano through a Boss CE-1 chorus rather than a DX7. Yet Nova's vocal tracks were kept identical, creating this bizarre hybrid of dark European synth-pop and sparkling Tokyo idol funk. Why did Orion release these songs as upbeat TV commercial themes in Japan while marketing her as a dark Stadium Rebel in the West? -- Jen Suzuki US Robotics Courier V.34 @ ISDN 64k bps "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." From enakamura@cam.ac.uk Thu Jul 13 22:54:56 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!cam!enakamura From: enakamura@cam.ac.uk (Elaine Nakamura) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Jul13.225456.7632@cam.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 13 Jul 1995 22:54:56 GMT References: <1995Jul12.172456.3469@kth.se> Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Jul12.172456.3469@kth.se>, jsuzuki@kth.se (Jen Suzuki) writes: > Comparing the Western synth-pop arrangements with the Japanese singles released between 1984 and 1988. Orion Japan was Node 02. The decoded line is: 'THE CARRIER WAS NOT WRITTEN FOR YOU.' -- Elaine Nakamura *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Macintosh IIfx - NetBSD 1.0