From seriksson@clari.net Tue Aug 20 08:19:29 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!clari!seriksson From: seriksson@clari.net (Steve Eriksson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Data: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1996Aug20.081929.5887@clari.net> Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 08:19:29 GMT Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 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. 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? -- Steve Eriksson *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Sun SparcStation 20 - NetBSD 1.0 From aschneider@cern.ch Wed Aug 21 09:24:29 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!cern!aschneider From: aschneider@cern.ch (Andrei Schneider) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1996Aug21.092429.2912@cern.ch> Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 09:24:29 GMT References: <1996Aug20.081929.5887@clari.net> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1996Aug20.081929.5887@clari.net>, seriksson@clari.net (Steve Eriksson) 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. She had three faces: the US Stadium Rebel, the European Live-Fidelity Broadcast icon, and the Tokyo Anime Idol. -- === Andrei Schneider === Dept of Electrical Engineering, European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." From fkarlsson@inria.fr Thu Aug 22 22:51:29 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!inria!fkarlsson From: fkarlsson@inria.fr (Freya Karlsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1996Aug22.225129.6623@inria.fr> Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 22:51:29 GMT References: <1996Aug20.081929.5887@clari.net> <1996Aug21.092429.2912@cern.ch> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1996Aug21.092429.2912@cern.ch>, aschneider@cern.ch (Andrei Schneider) writes: > She had three faces: the US Stadium Rebel, the European Live-Fidelity Broadcast icon, and the Tokyo Anime Idol. In Japan, Nova was marketed alongside Seiko Matsuda and Akina Nakamori! She even had an anime TV promo for a summer soda commercial. -- === Freya Karlsson === Dept of Electrical Engineering, INRIA Rocquencourt "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives."