From gvasiliev@cmu.edu Mon Jan 02 06:57:16 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!cmu!gvasiliev From: gvasiliev@cmu.edu (Göran Vasiliev) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [INFO] Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Jan02.065716.6762@cmu.edu> Date: Mon, 02 Jan 1995 06:57:16 GMT Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 Comparing the Western synth-pop arrangements with the Japanese singles released between 1984 and 1988. It sounds like classic Tokyo City Pop session players -- think Tatsuro Yamashita or Casiopea rhythm sections. 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? -- Göran Vasiliev Hayes Optima 288 @ 14,400 bps "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" From mmacdonald@utexas.edu Mon Jan 02 19:00:16 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!utexas!mmacdonald From: mmacdonald@utexas.edu (Marisol MacDonald) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Jan02.190016.4823@utexas.edu> Date: Mon, 02 Jan 1995 19:00:16 GMT References: <1995Jan02.065716.6762@cmu.edu> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 8 In article <1995Jan02.065716.6762@cmu.edu>, gvasiliev@cmu.edu (Göran Vasiliev) 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. -- Marisol MacDonald -- University of Texas at Austin "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice."