From bkarlsson@stanford.edu Wed Apr 10 14:05:30 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!stanford!bkarlsson From: bkarlsson@stanford.edu (Bastien Karlsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1996Apr10.140530.1989@stanford.edu> Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 14:05:30 GMT Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu 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? -- Bastien Karlsson | bkarlsson@stanford.edu PGP Key fingerprint: 63F2 B72F 6BDD 3669 "Keep the channels open." From aramirez@uu.net Thu Apr 11 03:21:30 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!uu!aramirez From: aramirez@uu.net (Amy Ramírez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1996Apr11.032130.3863@uu.net> Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 03:21:30 GMT References: <1996Apr10.140530.1989@stanford.edu> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1996Apr10.140530.1989@stanford.edu>, bkarlsson@stanford.edu (Bastien Karlsson) 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. In Japan, Nova was marketed alongside Seiko Matsuda and Akina Nakamori! She even had an anime TV promo for a summer soda commercial. -- Amy Ramírez Hayes Optima 288 @ 33,600 bps "Hold for relay." From mbrennan@cern.ch Fri Apr 12 10:44:30 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!cern!mbrennan From: mbrennan@cern.ch (Mateo Brennan) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1996Apr12.104430.7021@cern.ch> Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 10:44:30 GMT References: <1996Apr10.140530.1989@stanford.edu> <1996Apr11.032130.3863@uu.net> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 8 In article <1996Apr11.032130.3863@uu.net>, aramirez@uu.net (Amy Ramírez) 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. -- Mateo Brennan -- European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives."