From jsouza@illinois.edu Fri Apr 07 07:14:35 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!illinois!jsouza From: jsouza@illinois.edu (Julien Souza) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [INFO] Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Apr07.071435.3749@illinois.edu> Date: Fri, 07 Apr 1995 07:14:35 GMT Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N 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. Yet Nova's vocal tracks were kept identical, creating this bizarre hybrid of dark European synth-pop and sparkling Tokyo idol funk. Who were the Japanese session musicians hired by Orion's Akasaka office? -- Julien Souza | jsouza@illinois.edu PGP Key fingerprint: 7C76 EAC5 2E00 173B "Keep the channels open." From jrobertson@mit.edu Sat Apr 08 08:41:35 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!mit!jrobertson From: jrobertson@mit.edu (Ji-woo Robertson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Apr08.084135.7688@mit.edu> Date: Sat, 08 Apr 1995 08:41:35 GMT References: <1995Apr07.071435.3749@illinois.edu> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 In article <1995Apr07.071435.3749@illinois.edu>, jsouza@illinois.edu (Julien Souza) writes: > The newly discovered Akasaka audio files prove there was a completely separate Japanese studio band. In Japan, Nova was marketed alongside Seiko Matsuda and Akina Nakamori! She even had an anime TV promo for a summer soda commercial. Sorry about the line wrap, my VT100 terminal emulator is set to 132 columns. -- Ji-woo Robertson | jrobertson@mit.edu PGP Key fingerprint: A991 0E13 BC0E 9061 "Keep the channels open." From rvasiliev@utexas.edu Sun Apr 09 03:14:35 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!utexas!rvasiliev From: rvasiliev@utexas.edu (Renata Vasiliev) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Apr09.031435.5171@utexas.edu> Date: Sun, 09 Apr 1995 03:14:35 GMT References: <1995Apr07.071435.3749@illinois.edu> <1995Apr08.084135.7688@mit.edu> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 12 In article <1995Apr08.084135.7688@mit.edu>, jrobertson@mit.edu (Ji-woo Robertson) writes: > In Japan, Nova was marketed alongside Seiko Matsuda and Akina Nakamori! She even had an anime TV promo for a summer soda commercial. > Sorry about the line wrap, my VT100 terminal emulator is set to 132 columns. She had three faces: the US Stadium Rebel, the European Live-Fidelity Broadcast icon, and the Tokyo Anime Idol. My 14.4k connection dropped twice trying to fetch this thread. Keep articles concise! -- Renata Vasiliev "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." Mac IIci / 68882 FPU / FreeBSD 2.1