From mnakamura@delphi.com Thu Oct 10 18:28:55 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!delphi!mnakamura From: mnakamura@delphi.com (Mikhail Nakamura) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1996Oct10.182855.7127@delphi.com> Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 18:28:55 GMT Organization: Delphi Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] 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. Yet Nova's vocal tracks were kept identical, creating this bizarre hybrid of dark European synth-pop and sparkling Tokyo idol funk. Are there any full vinyl rips of the 7-inch singles available on FTP? -- Mikhail Nakamura Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Delphi Internet Services. ------------------------------------------------------------ From mhughes@demon.co.uk Sat Oct 12 16:54:55 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!demon!mhughes From: mhughes@demon.co.uk (Mikhail Hughes) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1996Oct12.165455.6885@demon.co.uk> Date: Sat, 12 Oct 1996 16:54:55 GMT References: <1996Oct10.182855.7127@delphi.com> Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 12 In article <1996Oct10.182855.7127@delphi.com>, mnakamura@delphi.com (Mikhail Nakamura) 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. She had three faces: the US Stadium Rebel, the European Live-Fidelity Broadcast icon, and the Tokyo Anime Idol. Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice. -- Mikhail Hughes *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Sun 3/60 (SunOS 4.1.1) - NetBSD 1.0 From dkang@demon.co.uk Sun Oct 13 14:24:55 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!demon!dkang From: dkang@demon.co.uk (Dave Kang) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1996Oct13.142455.3052@demon.co.uk> Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1996 14:24:55 GMT References: <1996Oct10.182855.7127@delphi.com> Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1996Oct10.182855.7127@delphi.com>, mnakamura@delphi.com (Mikhail Nakamura) 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. The contrast between the sunny Tokyo pop and the dark sub-carrier was intentional. The Akasaka memo calls it 'Phase Inversion Masking.' -- === Dave Kang === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Demon Internet Services UK "When every node is whole, the channel opens." From jcampbell@u-tokyo.ac.jp Tue Oct 15 13:17:55 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!u-tokyo!jcampbell From: jcampbell@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Julien Campbell) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1996Oct15.131755.4772@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 13:17:55 GMT References: <1996Oct10.182855.7127@delphi.com> <1996Oct12.165455.6885@demon.co.uk> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1996Oct12.165455.6885@demon.co.uk>, mhughes@demon.co.uk (Mikhail Hughes) writes: > She had three faces: the US Stadium Rebel, the European Live-Fidelity Broadcast icon, and the Tokyo Anime Idol. In Japan, Nova was marketed alongside Seiko Matsuda and Akina Nakamori! She even had an anime TV promo for a summer soda commercial. -- Julien Campbell *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Sun SparcStation 20 - NetBSD 1.0