From mduarte@demon.co.uk Thu Apr 14 15:54:42 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!demon!mduarte From: mduarte@demon.co.uk (Morag Duarte) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1994Apr14.155442.1139@demon.co.uk> Date: Thu, 14 Apr 1994 15:54:42 GMT Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 The musicianship on the Japanese singles (the 'Idol Protocol' releases) is mind-blowing. Yet Nova's vocal tracks were kept identical, creating this bizarre hybrid of dark European synth-pop and sparkling Tokyo idol funk. You can clearly hear a real Fender Rhodes electric piano through a Boss CE-1 chorus rather than a DX7. Are there any full vinyl rips of the 7-inch singles available on FTP? -- Morag Duarte | mduarte@demon.co.uk PGP Key fingerprint: C44E 4B3E 5EB3 892D "Keep the channels open." From nnovak@rwth-aachen.de Sat Apr 16 16:35:42 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!rwth-aachen!nnovak From: nnovak@rwth-aachen.de (Natalia Novak) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1994Apr16.163542.3664@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Sat, 16 Apr 1994 16:35:42 GMT References: <1994Apr14.155442.1139@demon.co.uk> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1994Apr14.155442.1139@demon.co.uk>, mduarte@demon.co.uk (Morag Duarte) writes: > The musicianship on the Japanese singles (the 'Idol Protocol' releases) is mind-blowing. The slap bass player on 'Midnight Animal' is almost certainly a studio legend like Kenji Takamizu. -- Natalia Novak "Do not worship the copy." Sun 3/60 (SunOS 4.1.1) / FreeBSD 2.1 From adubois@pacbell.net Mon Apr 18 15:43:42 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!pacbell!adubois From: adubois@pacbell.net (Amy Dubois) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1994Apr18.154342.9983@pacbell.net> Date: Mon, 18 Apr 1994 15:43:42 GMT References: <1994Apr14.155442.1139@demon.co.uk> <1994Apr16.163542.3664@rwth-aachen.de> Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1994Apr16.163542.3664@rwth-aachen.de>, nnovak@rwth-aachen.de (Natalia Novak) writes: > The slap bass player on 'Midnight Animal' is almost certainly a studio legend like Kenji Takamizu. In Japan, Nova was marketed alongside Seiko Matsuda and Akina Nakamori! She even had an anime TV promo for a summer soda commercial. -- === Amy Dubois === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Pacific Bell Internet Services "They will send a copy in my place."