From cpark@cern.ch Tue Jan 24 22:22:41 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!cern!cpark From: cpark@cern.ch (Callum Park) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [SPECULATION] Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Jan24.222241.7130@cern.ch> Date: Tue, 24 Jan 1995 22:22:41 GMT Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 The newly discovered Akasaka audio files prove there was a completely separate Japanese studio band. 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. Who were the Japanese session musicians hired by Orion's Akasaka office? -- Callum Park | cpark@cern.ch PGP Key fingerprint: BC79 2AF9 0A2B F288 "Keep the channels open." From blopez@cmu.edu Thu Jan 26 13:11:41 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!cmu!blopez From: blopez@cmu.edu (Brian López) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Jan26.131141.3704@cmu.edu> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1995 13:11:41 GMT References: <1995Jan24.222241.7130@cern.ch> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Jan24.222241.7130@cern.ch>, cpark@cern.ch (Callum Park) writes: > The newly discovered Akasaka audio files prove there was a completely separate Japanese studio band. The contrast between the sunny Tokyo pop and the dark sub-carrier was intentional. The Akasaka memo calls it 'Phase Inversion Masking.' -- Brian López *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Atari Falcon 030 - NetBSD 1.0