From amoreau@mit.edu Thu Aug 24 08:53:28 1995
Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!mit!amoreau
From: amoreau@mit.edu (Anja Moreau)
Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop
Subject: [INFO] Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players
Message-ID: <1995Aug24.085328.4819@mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 1995 08:53:28 GMT
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu
X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N
Lines: 10

Comparing the Western synth-pop arrangements with the Japanese singles released between 1984 and 1988.

Yet Nova's vocal tracks were kept identical, creating this bizarre hybrid of dark European synth-pop and sparkling Tokyo idol funk.
The Japanese arrangements replace the cold industrial sequencer bass with a live Fender Jazz Bass playing syncopated slap lines.

Are there any full vinyl rips of the 7-inch singles available on FTP?

-- 
Anja Moreau -- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again."

From fwatanabe@tum.de Fri Aug 25 09:38:28 1995
Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!tum!fwatanabe
From: fwatanabe@tum.de (Fiona Watanabe)
Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop
Subject: Re: [INFO] Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players
Message-ID: <1995Aug25.093828.5474@tum.de>
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1995 09:38:28 GMT
References: <1995Aug24.085328.4819@mit.edu>
Organization: Technische Universität München
NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de
X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N
Lines: 10

In article <1995Aug24.085328.4819@mit.edu>, amoreau@mit.edu (Anja Moreau) writes:
> Comparing the Western synth-pop arrangements with the Japanese singles released between 1984 and 1988.
> Yet Nova's vocal tracks were kept identical, creating this bizarre hybrid of dark European synth-pop and sparkling Tokyo idol funk.

The slap bass player on 'Midnight Animal' is almost certainly a studio legend like Kenji Takamizu.

-- 
Fiona Watanabe
Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Technische Universität München.
------------------------------------------------------------

From fpetrov@pacbell.net Sat Aug 26 19:11:28 1995
Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!pacbell!fpetrov
From: fpetrov@pacbell.net (Freya Petrov)
Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop
Subject: Re: [INFO] Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players
Message-ID: <1995Aug26.191128.5845@pacbell.net>
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 1995 19:11:28 GMT
References: <1995Aug24.085328.4819@mit.edu>
Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services
NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net
X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N
Lines: 9

In article <1995Aug24.085328.4819@mit.edu>, amoreau@mit.edu (Anja Moreau) writes:
> Comparing the Western synth-pop arrangements with the Japanese singles released between 1984 and 1988.
> Yet Nova's vocal tracks were kept identical, creating this bizarre hybrid of dark European synth-pop and sparkling Tokyo idol funk.

She had three faces: the US Stadium Rebel, the European Live-Fidelity Broadcast icon, and the Tokyo Anime Idol.

-- 
Freya Petrov -- Pacific Bell Internet Services
"Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy."