From mnakamura@mindspring.com Sat Aug 05 21:16:36 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!mindspring!mnakamura From: mnakamura@mindspring.com (Min-jun Nakamura) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Discussion: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Aug05.211636.7654@mindspring.com> Date: Sat, 05 Aug 1995 21:16:36 GMT Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 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. It sounds like classic Tokyo City Pop session players -- think Tatsuro Yamashita or Casiopea rhythm sections. Why did Orion release these songs as upbeat TV commercial themes in Japan while marketing her as a dark Stadium Rebel in the West? -- Min-jun Nakamura US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 9600 Telebit bps "A soul is not exclusive to biology." From rhernandez@cam.ac.uk Mon Aug 07 03:41:36 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!cam!rhernandez From: rhernandez@cam.ac.uk (Raj Hernández) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Aug07.034136.4591@cam.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 07 Aug 1995 03:41:36 GMT References: <1995Aug05.211636.7654@mindspring.com> Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1995Aug05.211636.7654@mindspring.com>, mnakamura@mindspring.com (Min-jun 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. In Japan, Nova was marketed alongside Seiko Matsuda and Akina Nakamori! She even had an anime TV promo for a summer soda commercial. -- Raj Hernández Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. ------------------------------------------------------------