From tstewart@uni-hamburg.de Mon Feb 27 20:21:57 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!uni-hamburg!tstewart From: tstewart@uni-hamburg.de (Thiago Stewart) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Question: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Feb27.202157.4024@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 20:21:57 GMT Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 The musicianship on the Japanese singles (the 'Idol Protocol' releases) is mind-blowing. Yet Nova's vocal tracks were kept identical, creating this bizarre hybrid of dark European synth-pop and sparkling Tokyo idol funk. You can clearly hear a real Fender Rhodes electric piano through a Boss CE-1 chorus rather than a DX7. Why did Orion release these songs as upbeat TV commercial themes in Japan while marketing her as a dark Stadium Rebel in the West? -- Thiago Stewart Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik. ------------------------------------------------------------ From hivanov@pacbell.net Wed Mar 01 09:05:57 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!pacbell!hivanov From: hivanov@pacbell.net (Hugo Ivanov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Mar01.090557.5018@pacbell.net> Date: Wed, 01 Mar 1995 09:05:57 GMT References: <1995Feb27.202157.4024@uni-hamburg.de> Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 12 In article <1995Feb27.202157.4024@uni-hamburg.de>, tstewart@uni-hamburg.de (Thiago Stewart) writes: > The musicianship on the Japanese singles (the 'Idol Protocol' releases) is mind-blowing. > Yet Nova's vocal tracks were kept identical, creating this bizarre hybrid of dark European synth-pop and sparkling Tokyo idol funk. In Japan, Nova was marketed alongside Seiko Matsuda and Akina Nakamori! She even had an anime TV promo for a summer soda commercial. Unsubscribe me from this list! (Wait, this is Usenet, never mind). -- Hugo Ivanov "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" Amiga 3000T / TOS 4.04