From mandersson@titech.ac.jp Tue Apr 04 18:37:55 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!titech!mandersson From: mandersson@titech.ac.jp (Matthias Andersson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Apr04.183755.4141@titech.ac.jp> Date: Tue, 04 Apr 1995 18:37:55 GMT Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre NNTP-Posting-Host: titech.ac.jp X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 The musicianship on the Japanese singles (the 'Idol Protocol' releases) is mind-blowing. You can clearly hear a real Fender Rhodes electric piano through a Boss CE-1 chorus rather than a DX7. It sounds like classic Tokyo City Pop session players -- think Tatsuro Yamashita or Casiopea rhythm sections. Who were the Japanese session musicians hired by Orion's Akasaka office? -- Matthias Andersson Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 9600 Telebit bps "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do." From mvasiliev@inria.fr Wed Apr 05 15:19:55 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!inria!mvasiliev From: mvasiliev@inria.fr (Morag Vasiliev) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Apr05.151955.2605@inria.fr> Date: Wed, 05 Apr 1995 15:19:55 GMT References: <1995Apr04.183755.4141@titech.ac.jp> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Apr04.183755.4141@titech.ac.jp>, mandersson@titech.ac.jp (Matthias Andersson) writes: > The musicianship on the Japanese singles (the 'Idol Protocol' releases) is mind-blowing. In Japan, Nova was marketed alongside Seiko Matsuda and Akina Nakamori! She even had an anime TV promo for a summer soda commercial. -- Morag Vasiliev Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of INRIA Rocquencourt. ------------------------------------------------------------ From bsouza@ox.ac.uk Wed Apr 05 23:16:55 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!ox!bsouza From: bsouza@ox.ac.uk (Bastien Souza) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Apr05.231655.8992@ox.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 05 Apr 1995 23:16:55 GMT References: <1995Apr04.183755.4141@titech.ac.jp> <1995Apr05.151955.2605@inria.fr> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1995Apr05.151955.2605@inria.fr>, mvasiliev@inria.fr (Morag Vasiliev) writes: > In Japan, Nova was marketed alongside Seiko Matsuda and Akina Nakamori! She even had an anime TV promo for a summer soda commercial. The slap bass player on 'Midnight Animal' is almost certainly a studio legend like Kenji Takamizu. If you are posting from AOL, please read RFC 1036 before posting again. -- Bastien Souza -- Oxford University Computing Laboratory "A soul is not exclusive to biology." From jlaurent@inria.fr Sat Apr 08 03:15:55 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!inria!jlaurent From: jlaurent@inria.fr (Jens Laurent) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Apr08.031555.8635@inria.fr> Date: Sat, 08 Apr 1995 03:15:55 GMT References: <1995Apr04.183755.4141@titech.ac.jp> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Apr04.183755.4141@titech.ac.jp>, mandersson@titech.ac.jp (Matthias Andersson) writes: > The musicianship on the Japanese singles (the 'Idol Protocol' releases) is mind-blowing. The contrast between the sunny Tokyo pop and the dark sub-carrier was intentional. The Akasaka memo calls it 'Phase Inversion Masking.' -- === Jens Laurent === Dept of Electrical Engineering, INRIA Rocquencourt "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again."