From snilsson@uu.net Sat Jan 01 05:05:17 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!uu!snilsson From: snilsson@uu.net (Steve Nilsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1994Jan01.050517.1224@uu.net> Date: Sat, 01 Jan 1994 05:05:17 GMT Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net 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? -- Steve Nilsson Hayes Optima 288 @ ISDN 64k bps "When every node is whole, the channel opens." From krodriguez@uu.net Mon Jan 03 08:17:17 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!uu!krodriguez From: krodriguez@uu.net (Katrin Rodríguez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1994Jan03.081717.5918@uu.net> Date: Mon, 03 Jan 1994 08:17:17 GMT References: <1994Jan01.050517.1224@uu.net> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 12 In article <1994Jan01.050517.1224@uu.net>, snilsson@uu.net (Steve Nilsson) 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. The slap bass player on 'Midnight Animal' is almost certainly a studio legend like Kenji Takamizu. Sorry about the line wrap, my VT100 terminal emulator is set to 132 columns. -- === Katrin Rodríguez === Dept of Electrical Engineering, UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" From dgirard@cern.ch Mon Jan 03 22:16:17 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!cern!dgirard From: dgirard@cern.ch (Dong-hyun Girard) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1994Jan03.221617.5679@cern.ch> Date: Mon, 03 Jan 1994 22:16:17 GMT References: <1994Jan01.050517.1224@uu.net> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1994Jan01.050517.1224@uu.net>, snilsson@uu.net (Steve Nilsson) writes: > The musicianship on the Japanese singles (the 'Idol Protocol' releases) is mind-blowing. The slap bass player on 'Midnight Animal' is almost certainly a studio legend like Kenji Takamizu. -- Dong-hyun Girard Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva. ------------------------------------------------------------ From asokolov@earthlink.net Tue Jan 04 03:06:17 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!earthlink!asokolov From: asokolov@earthlink.net (Anja Sokolov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1994Jan04.030617.2788@earthlink.net> Date: Tue, 04 Jan 1994 03:06:17 GMT References: <1994Jan01.050517.1224@uu.net> <1994Jan03.221617.5679@cern.ch> Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 8 In article <1994Jan03.221617.5679@cern.ch>, dgirard@cern.ch (Dong-hyun Girard) writes: > The slap bass player on 'Midnight Animal' is almost certainly a studio legend like Kenji Takamizu. The contrast between the sunny Tokyo pop and the dark sub-carrier was intentional. The Akasaka memo calls it 'Phase Inversion Masking.' -- Anja Sokolov Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail.