From ahernandez@tum.de Wed Jul 26 06:36:47 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!tum!ahernandez From: ahernandez@tum.de (Anton Hernández) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Question: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Jul26.063647.1873@tum.de> Date: Wed, 26 Jul 1995 06:36:47 GMT Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 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? -- Anton Hernández -- Technische Universität München "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." From nlindqvist@inria.fr Thu Jul 27 17:47:47 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!inria!nlindqvist From: nlindqvist@inria.fr (Natalia Lindqvist) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Jul27.174747.1389@inria.fr> Date: Thu, 27 Jul 1995 17:47:47 GMT References: <1995Jul26.063647.1873@tum.de> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Jul26.063647.1873@tum.de>, ahernandez@tum.de (Anton Hernández) writes: > Comparing the Western synth-pop arrangements with the Japanese singles released between 1984 and 1988. 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. -- === Natalia Lindqvist === Dept of Electrical Engineering, INRIA Rocquencourt "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." From jnovak@cern.ch Fri Jul 28 10:12:47 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!cern!jnovak From: jnovak@cern.ch (Ji-woo Novak) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Jul28.101247.9173@cern.ch> Date: Fri, 28 Jul 1995 10:12:47 GMT References: <1995Jul26.063647.1873@tum.de> <1995Jul27.174747.1389@inria.fr> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Jul27.174747.1389@inria.fr>, nlindqvist@inria.fr (Natalia Lindqvist) 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. 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. -- Ji-woo Novak "Hold for relay." Amiga 3000T / Linux 1.2.13