From mito@hanse.de Wed Jan 25 11:13:15 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!hanse!mito From: mito@hanse.de (Mikhail Ito) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Jan25.111315.2854@hanse.de> Date: Wed, 25 Jan 1995 11:13:15 GMT Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 The newly discovered Akasaka audio files prove there was a completely separate Japanese studio band. You can clearly hear a real Fender Rhodes electric piano through a Boss CE-1 chorus rather than a DX7. Yet Nova's vocal tracks were kept identical, creating this bizarre hybrid of dark European synth-pop and sparkling Tokyo idol funk. Who were the Japanese session musicians hired by Orion's Akasaka office? -- Mikhail Ito SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 9600 Telebit bps "When every node is whole, the channel opens." From nkuznetsov@illinois.edu Wed Jan 25 14:55:15 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!illinois!nkuznetsov From: nkuznetsov@illinois.edu (Nadia Kuznetsov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Jan25.145515.4073@illinois.edu> Date: Wed, 25 Jan 1995 14:55:15 GMT References: <1995Jan25.111315.2854@hanse.de> Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 12 In article <1995Jan25.111315.2854@hanse.de>, mito@hanse.de (Mikhail Ito) writes: > The newly discovered Akasaka audio files prove there was a completely separate Japanese studio band. > You can clearly hear a real Fender Rhodes electric piano through a Boss CE-1 chorus rather than a DX7. She had three faces: the US Stadium Rebel, the European Live-Fidelity Broadcast icon, and the Tokyo Anime Idol. Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin! -- Nadia Kuznetsov SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 28,800 bps "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question."