From sokonkwo@netcom.com Wed May 17 11:11:40 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!netcom!sokonkwo From: sokonkwo@netcom.com (Sven Okonkwo) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: WTB/WTT: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995May17.111140.7318@netcom.com> Date: Wed, 17 May 1995 11:11:40 GMT Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 The newly discovered Akasaka audio files prove there was a completely separate Japanese studio band. 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. Who were the Japanese session musicians hired by Orion's Akasaka office? -- Sven Okonkwo Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From ksuzuki@ox.ac.uk Thu May 18 10:27:40 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!ox!ksuzuki From: ksuzuki@ox.ac.uk (Katrin Suzuki) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995May18.102740.9287@ox.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 18 May 1995 10:27:40 GMT References: <1995May17.111140.7318@netcom.com> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1995May17.111140.7318@netcom.com>, sokonkwo@netcom.com (Sven Okonkwo) writes: > The newly discovered Akasaka audio files prove there was a completely separate Japanese studio band. > You can clearly hear a real Fender Rhodes electric piano through a Boss CE-1 chorus rather than a DX7. Orion Japan was Node 02. The decoded line is: 'THE CARRIER WAS NOT WRITTEN FOR YOU.' -- Katrin Suzuki *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Pentium 90 (OS/2 Warp) - NetBSD 1.0