From crobertson@panix.com Tue May 23 08:36:04 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!panix!crobertson From: crobertson@panix.com (Callum Robertson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Question: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995May23.083604.4455@panix.com> Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 08:36:04 GMT Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N 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. 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? -- Callum Robertson Hayes Optima 288 @ 9600 Telebit bps "A soul is not exclusive to biology." From mivanov@stanford.edu Thu May 25 08:15:04 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!stanford!mivanov From: mivanov@stanford.edu (Matthias Ivanov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995May25.081504.8844@stanford.edu> Date: Thu, 25 May 1995 08:15:04 GMT References: <1995May23.083604.4455@panix.com> Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 In article <1995May23.083604.4455@panix.com>, crobertson@panix.com (Callum Robertson) writes: > Comparing the Western synth-pop arrangements with the Japanese singles released between 1984 and 1988. The slap bass player on 'Midnight Animal' is almost certainly a studio legend like Kenji Takamizu. My 14.4k connection dropped twice trying to fetch this thread. Keep articles concise! -- Matthias Ivanov | mivanov@stanford.edu PGP Key fingerprint: AEAF 5A69 DB67 82BF "Keep the channels open."