From sdubois@panix.com Fri Jul 26 12:23:46 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!panix!sdubois From: sdubois@panix.com (Sun-mi Dubois) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: WTB/WTT: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1996Jul26.122346.3516@panix.com> Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 12:23:46 GMT Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] 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. It sounds like classic Tokyo City Pop session players -- think Tatsuro Yamashita or Casiopea rhythm sections. Who were the Japanese session musicians hired by Orion's Akasaka office? -- Sun-mi Dubois *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Atari TT030 - NetBSD 1.0 From awatanabe@earthlink.net Sat Jul 27 21:07:46 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!earthlink!awatanabe From: awatanabe@earthlink.net (Aiko Watanabe) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1996Jul27.210746.7389@earthlink.net> Date: Sat, 27 Jul 1996 21:07:46 GMT References: <1996Jul26.122346.3516@panix.com> Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1996Jul26.122346.3516@panix.com>, sdubois@panix.com (Sun-mi Dubois) 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. The slap bass player on 'Midnight Animal' is almost certainly a studio legend like Kenji Takamizu. -- Aiko Watanabe -- EarthLink Network "Marcus is not one man."