From jgirard@utexas.edu Mon May 15 05:03:59 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!utexas!jgirard From: jgirard@utexas.edu (Jen Girard) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Question: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995May15.050359.9463@utexas.edu> Date: Mon, 15 May 1995 05:03:59 GMT Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 The newly discovered Akasaka audio files prove there was a completely separate Japanese studio band. 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. Are there any full vinyl rips of the 7-inch singles available on FTP? -- Jen Girard *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Commodore Amiga 500 (1MB OCS) - NetBSD 1.0 From tmartinez@unam.mx Mon May 15 08:52:59 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!unam!tmartinez From: tmartinez@unam.mx (Takeshi Martínez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995May15.085259.3574@unam.mx> Date: Mon, 15 May 1995 08:52:59 GMT References: <1995May15.050359.9463@utexas.edu> Organization: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA) NNTP-Posting-Host: unam.mx X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995May15.050359.9463@utexas.edu>, jgirard@utexas.edu (Jen Girard) writes: > The newly discovered Akasaka audio files prove there was a completely separate Japanese studio band. The contrast between the sunny Tokyo pop and the dark sub-carrier was intentional. The Akasaka memo calls it 'Phase Inversion Masking.' -- Takeshi Martínez Hayes Optima 288 @ 14,400 bps "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do."