From mhughes@inria.fr Tue Jul 05 11:02:58 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!inria!mhughes From: mhughes@inria.fr (Mei Hughes) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [FLAME] Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1994Jul05.110258.7719@inria.fr> Date: Tue, 05 Jul 1994 11:02:58 GMT Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 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. Yet Nova's vocal tracks were kept identical, creating this bizarre hybrid of dark European synth-pop and sparkling Tokyo idol funk. Are there any full vinyl rips of the 7-inch singles available on FTP? -- Mei Hughes Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of INRIA Rocquencourt. ------------------------------------------------------------ From blaurent@kth.se Thu Jul 07 09:48:58 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!kth!blaurent From: blaurent@kth.se (Brian Laurent) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [FLAME] Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1994Jul07.094858.6458@kth.se> Date: Thu, 07 Jul 1994 09:48:58 GMT References: <1994Jul05.110258.7719@inria.fr> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1994Jul05.110258.7719@inria.fr>, mhughes@inria.fr (Mei Hughes) 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. She had three faces: the US Stadium Rebel, the European Live-Fidelity Broadcast icon, and the Tokyo Anime Idol. -- Brian Laurent "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." 486DX2/66 (Linux 1.2.13) / SunOS 4.1.4