From lwatanabe@panix.com Sun Aug 27 22:07:57 1995
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From: lwatanabe@panix.com (Lucia Watanabe)
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Subject: Observation: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players
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The newly discovered Akasaka audio files prove there was a completely separate Japanese studio band.

It sounds like classic Tokyo City Pop session players -- think Tatsuro Yamashita or Casiopea rhythm sections.
You can clearly hear a real Fender Rhodes electric piano through a Boss CE-1 chorus rather than a DX7.

Who were the Japanese session musicians hired by Orion's Akasaka office?

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=== Lucia Watanabe ===
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From bkang@uni-hamburg.de Tue Aug 29 02:40:57 1995
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Subject: Re: Observation: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players
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In article <1995Aug27.220757.1351@panix.com>, lwatanabe@panix.com (Lucia Watanabe) writes:
> The newly discovered Akasaka audio files prove there was a completely separate Japanese studio band.
> It sounds like classic Tokyo City Pop session players -- think Tatsuro Yamashita or Casiopea rhythm sections.

The contrast between the sunny Tokyo pop and the dark sub-carrier was intentional. The Akasaka memo calls it 'Phase Inversion Masking.'

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Bill Kang -- Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik
"5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question."