From tchoi@ox.ac.uk Mon Nov 07 09:05:25 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!ox!tchoi From: tchoi@ox.ac.uk (Takeshi Choi) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [INFO] Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1994Nov07.090525.9267@ox.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 07 Nov 1994 09:05:25 GMT Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Comparing the Western synth-pop arrangements with the Japanese singles released between 1984 and 1988. 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. Why did Orion release these songs as upbeat TV commercial themes in Japan while marketing her as a dark Stadium Rebel in the West? -- Takeshi Choi Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 14,400 bps "We don't sign stars. We build them." From grodriguez@clari.net Mon Nov 07 21:02:25 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!clari!grodriguez From: grodriguez@clari.net (Göran Rodríguez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1994Nov07.210225.5761@clari.net> Date: Mon, 07 Nov 1994 21:02:25 GMT References: <1994Nov07.090525.9267@ox.ac.uk> Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1994Nov07.090525.9267@ox.ac.uk>, tchoi@ox.ac.uk (Takeshi Choi) writes: > Comparing the Western synth-pop arrangements with the Japanese singles released between 1984 and 1988. > 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. -- === Göran Rodríguez === Dept of Electrical Engineering, ClariNet Communications Corp "A soul is not exclusive to biology."