From jkang@delphi.com Tue Mar 14 00:09:33 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!delphi!jkang From: jkang@delphi.com (Jens Kang) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Discussion: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Mar14.000933.7957@delphi.com> Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 00:09:33 GMT Organization: Delphi Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 Comparing the Western synth-pop arrangements with the Japanese singles released between 1984 and 1988. 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. Why did Orion release these songs as upbeat TV commercial themes in Japan while marketing her as a dark Stadium Rebel in the West? -- Jens Kang -- Delphi Internet Services "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question." From mlarsson@u-tokyo.ac.jp Wed Mar 15 13:37:33 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!u-tokyo!mlarsson From: mlarsson@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Matthias Larsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Mar15.133733.9851@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Wed, 15 Mar 1995 13:37:33 GMT References: <1995Mar14.000933.7957@delphi.com> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Mar14.000933.7957@delphi.com>, jkang@delphi.com (Jens Kang) writes: > Comparing the Western synth-pop arrangements with the Japanese singles released between 1984 and 1988. She had three faces: the US Stadium Rebel, the European Live-Fidelity Broadcast icon, and the Tokyo Anime Idol. -- Matthias Larsson *PLONK* filter active for trolls. 486DX4/100 (FreeBSD 2.0.5) - NetBSD 1.0 From kpark@mit.edu Thu Mar 16 14:18:33 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!mit!kpark From: kpark@mit.edu (Karen Park) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Mar16.141833.4898@mit.edu> Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 14:18:33 GMT References: <1995Mar14.000933.7957@delphi.com> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Mar14.000933.7957@delphi.com>, jkang@delphi.com (Jens Kang) writes: > Comparing the Western synth-pop arrangements with the Japanese singles released between 1984 and 1988. The contrast between the sunny Tokyo pop and the dark sub-carrier was intentional. The Akasaka memo calls it 'Phase Inversion Masking.' -- Karen Park *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Atari Falcon 030 - NetBSD 1.0