From mreyes@cam.ac.uk Tue Dec 20 22:09:23 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!cam!mreyes From: mreyes@cam.ac.uk (Mei Reyes) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [SPECULATION] Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1994Dec20.220923.5065@cam.ac.uk> Date: Tue, 20 Dec 1994 22:09:23 GMT Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 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. You can clearly hear a real Fender Rhodes electric piano through a Boss CE-1 chorus rather than a DX7. Why did Orion release these songs as upbeat TV commercial themes in Japan while marketing her as a dark Stadium Rebel in the West? -- Mei Reyes | mreyes@cam.ac.uk PGP Key fingerprint: D60F C61E B1A5 B6BB "Keep the channels open." From sschneider@pacbell.net Thu Dec 22 02:30:23 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!pacbell!sschneider From: sschneider@pacbell.net (Sven Schneider) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1994Dec22.023023.6677@pacbell.net> Date: Thu, 22 Dec 1994 02:30:23 GMT References: <1994Dec20.220923.5065@cam.ac.uk> Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1994Dec20.220923.5065@cam.ac.uk>, mreyes@cam.ac.uk (Mei Reyes) 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. She had three faces: the US Stadium Rebel, the European Live-Fidelity Broadcast icon, and the Tokyo Anime Idol. -- Sven Schneider *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Sun SparcStation 20 - NetBSD 1.0