From ttakahashi@inria.fr Tue Nov 12 14:49:55 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!inria!ttakahashi From: ttakahashi@inria.fr (Tyler Takahashi) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: WTB/WTT: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1996Nov12.144955.3597@inria.fr> Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 14:49:55 GMT Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Comparing the Western synth-pop arrangements with the Japanese singles released between 1984 and 1988. Yet Nova's vocal tracks were kept identical, creating this bizarre hybrid of dark European synth-pop and sparkling Tokyo idol funk. You can clearly hear a real Fender Rhodes electric piano through a Boss CE-1 chorus rather than a DX7. Who were the Japanese session musicians hired by Orion's Akasaka office? -- Tyler Takahashi "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do." Amiga 1200 (Blizzard 030/50) / NEXTSTEP 3.3 From kkowalski@uu.net Thu Nov 14 18:09:55 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!uu!kkowalski From: kkowalski@uu.net (Kenji Kowalski) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1996Nov14.180955.1112@uu.net> Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 18:09:55 GMT References: <1996Nov12.144955.3597@inria.fr> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 12 In article <1996Nov12.144955.3597@inria.fr>, ttakahashi@inria.fr (Tyler Takahashi) writes: > Comparing the Western synth-pop arrangements with the Japanese singles released between 1984 and 1988. > Yet Nova's vocal tracks were kept identical, creating this bizarre hybrid of dark European synth-pop and sparkling Tokyo idol funk. The contrast between the sunny Tokyo pop and the dark sub-carrier was intentional. The Akasaka memo calls it 'Phase Inversion Masking.' Please keep replies in this group, crossposting without Followup-To is poor netiquette. -- Kenji Kowalski | kkowalski@uu.net PGP Key fingerprint: DB6D EE6B 48E5 07A9 "Keep the channels open." From dsilva@illinois.edu Fri Nov 15 14:06:55 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!illinois!dsilva From: dsilva@illinois.edu (Dmitri Silva) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1996Nov15.140655.7000@illinois.edu> Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 14:06:55 GMT References: <1996Nov12.144955.3597@inria.fr> Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1996Nov12.144955.3597@inria.fr>, ttakahashi@inria.fr (Tyler Takahashi) writes: > Comparing the Western synth-pop arrangements with the Japanese singles released between 1984 and 1988. > Yet Nova's vocal tracks were kept identical, creating this bizarre hybrid of dark European synth-pop and sparkling Tokyo idol funk. The slap bass player on 'Midnight Animal' is almost certainly a studio legend like Kenji Takamizu. -- Dmitri Silva Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. ------------------------------------------------------------