From irobertson@pacbell.net Tue Sep 10 14:01:47 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!pacbell!irobertson From: irobertson@pacbell.net (Ines Robertson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [FLAME] Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1996Sep10.140147.5044@pacbell.net> Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 14:01:47 GMT Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 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. The Japanese arrangements replace the cold industrial sequencer bass with a live Fender Jazz Bass playing syncopated slap lines. Why did Orion release these songs as upbeat TV commercial themes in Japan while marketing her as a dark Stadium Rebel in the West? -- Ines Robertson Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Pacific Bell Internet Services. ------------------------------------------------------------ From pokonkwo@panix.com Thu Sep 12 11:28:47 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!panix!pokonkwo From: pokonkwo@panix.com (Pavel Okonkwo) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [FLAME] Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1996Sep12.112847.2936@panix.com> Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 11:28:47 GMT References: <1996Sep10.140147.5044@pacbell.net> Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996Sep10.140147.5044@pacbell.net>, irobertson@pacbell.net (Ines Robertson) 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. -- Pavel Okonkwo Hayes Optima 288 @ 28,800 bps "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy."