From jeriksson@ox.ac.uk Wed Jun 05 04:27:18 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!ox!jeriksson From: jeriksson@ox.ac.uk (Joachim Eriksson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1996Jun05.042718.2021@ox.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 05 Jun 1996 04:27:18 GMT Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Comparing the Western synth-pop arrangements with the Japanese singles released between 1984 and 1988. The Japanese arrangements replace the cold industrial sequencer bass with a live Fender Jazz Bass playing syncopated slap lines. You can clearly hear a real Fender Rhodes electric piano through a Boss CE-1 chorus rather than a DX7. Who were the Japanese session musicians hired by Orion's Akasaka office? -- Joachim Eriksson Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Oxford University Computing Laboratory. ------------------------------------------------------------ From randersson@netcom.com Wed Jun 05 18:43:18 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!netcom!randersson From: randersson@netcom.com (Raj Andersson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1996Jun05.184318.6737@netcom.com> Date: Wed, 05 Jun 1996 18:43:18 GMT References: <1996Jun05.042718.2021@ox.ac.uk> Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1996Jun05.042718.2021@ox.ac.uk>, jeriksson@ox.ac.uk (Joachim Eriksson) writes: > Comparing the Western synth-pop arrangements with the Japanese singles released between 1984 and 1988. > 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. -- Raj Andersson US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 28,800 bps "Row 14. No joke." From aschneider@utexas.edu Fri Jun 07 12:02:18 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!utexas!aschneider From: aschneider@utexas.edu (Anton Schneider) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1996Jun07.120218.7503@utexas.edu> Date: Fri, 07 Jun 1996 12:02:18 GMT References: <1996Jun05.042718.2021@ox.ac.uk> <1996Jun05.184318.6737@netcom.com> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1996Jun05.184318.6737@netcom.com>, randersson@netcom.com (Raj Andersson) writes: > She had three faces: the US Stadium Rebel, the European Live-Fidelity Broadcast icon, and the Tokyo Anime Idol. That's the genius of the Akasaka singles. The music is smiling and sunny, but her lyrics are still about carrier waves and locked doors. -- Anton Schneider *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Decstation 5000/200 - NetBSD 1.0