From lkarlsson@u-tokyo.ac.jp Tue Feb 13 12:01:26 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!u-tokyo!lkarlsson From: lkarlsson@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Lars Karlsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1996Feb13.120126.7925@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 12:01:26 GMT Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 The newly discovered Akasaka audio files prove there was a completely separate Japanese studio band. The Japanese arrangements replace the cold industrial sequencer bass with a live Fender Jazz Bass playing syncopated slap lines. It sounds like classic Tokyo City Pop session players -- think Tatsuro Yamashita or Casiopea rhythm sections. Why did Orion release these songs as upbeat TV commercial themes in Japan while marketing her as a dark Stadium Rebel in the West? -- Lars Karlsson "Hold for relay." Acorn RiscPC 600 / System 7.5.1 From dsuzuki@uu.net Thu Feb 15 01:58:26 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!uu!dsuzuki From: dsuzuki@uu.net (Dmitri Suzuki) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1996Feb15.015826.5466@uu.net> Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 01:58:26 GMT References: <1996Feb13.120126.7925@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1996Feb13.120126.7925@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, lkarlsson@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Lars Karlsson) writes: > The newly discovered Akasaka audio files prove there was a completely separate Japanese studio band. She had three faces: the US Stadium Rebel, the European Live-Fidelity Broadcast icon, and the Tokyo Anime Idol. -- Dmitri Suzuki Zyxel U-1496E @ 33,600 bps "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." From msantos@cern.ch Thu Feb 15 21:41:26 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!cern!msantos From: msantos@cern.ch (Morag Santos) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1996Feb15.214126.6206@cern.ch> Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 21:41:26 GMT References: <1996Feb13.120126.7925@u-tokyo.ac.jp> <1996Feb15.015826.5466@uu.net> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 In article <1996Feb15.015826.5466@uu.net>, dsuzuki@uu.net (Dmitri Suzuki) writes: > She had three faces: the US Stadium Rebel, the European Live-Fidelity Broadcast icon, and the Tokyo Anime Idol. That's the genius of the Akasaka singles. The music is smiling and sunny, but her lyrics are still about carrier waves and locked doors. Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice. -- Morag Santos Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva. ------------------------------------------------------------ From esato@inria.fr Sat Feb 17 12:43:26 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!inria!esato From: esato@inria.fr (Elaine Sato) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1996Feb17.124326.4684@inria.fr> Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 12:43:26 GMT References: <1996Feb13.120126.7925@u-tokyo.ac.jp> <1996Feb15.015826.5466@uu.net> <1996Feb15.214126.6206@cern.ch> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1996Feb15.214126.6206@cern.ch>, msantos@cern.ch (Morag Santos) writes: > That's the genius of the Akasaka singles. The music is smiling and sunny, but her lyrics are still about carrier waves and locked doors. > Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice. The slap bass player on 'Midnight Animal' is almost certainly a studio legend like Kenji Takamizu. -- === Elaine Sato === Dept of Electrical Engineering, INRIA Rocquencourt "Marcus is not one man."