From sdubois@netcom.com Fri Dec 15 10:05:20 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!netcom!sdubois From: sdubois@netcom.com (Sun-mi Dubois) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Dec15.100520.2943@netcom.com> Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1995 10:05:20 GMT Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 The newly discovered Akasaka audio files prove there was a completely separate Japanese studio band. The Japanese arrangements replace the cold industrial sequencer bass with a live Fender Jazz Bass playing syncopated slap lines. 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? -- === Sun-mi Dubois === Dept of Electrical Engineering, NETCOM On-Line Communication Services "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." From snilsson@unam.mx Sat Dec 16 01:57:20 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!unam!snilsson From: snilsson@unam.mx (Sun-mi Nilsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Dec16.015720.3958@unam.mx> Date: Sat, 16 Dec 1995 01:57:20 GMT References: <1995Dec15.100520.2943@netcom.com> Organization: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA) NNTP-Posting-Host: unam.mx X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 12 In article <1995Dec15.100520.2943@netcom.com>, sdubois@netcom.com (Sun-mi Dubois) writes: > The newly discovered Akasaka audio files prove there was a completely separate Japanese studio band. > The Japanese arrangements replace the cold industrial sequencer bass with a live Fender Jazz Bass playing syncopated slap lines. She had three faces: the US Stadium Rebel, the European Live-Fidelity Broadcast icon, and the Tokyo Anime Idol. Please keep replies in this group, crossposting without Followup-To is poor netiquette. -- Sun-mi Nilsson *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Amiga 3000T - NetBSD 1.0 From tlee@rwth-aachen.de Mon Dec 18 01:26:20 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!rwth-aachen!tlee From: tlee@rwth-aachen.de (Tobias Lee) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Dec18.012620.8882@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 01:26:20 GMT References: <1995Dec15.100520.2943@netcom.com> <1995Dec16.015720.3958@unam.mx> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 12 In article <1995Dec16.015720.3958@unam.mx>, snilsson@unam.mx (Sun-mi Nilsson) writes: > She had three faces: the US Stadium Rebel, the European Live-Fidelity Broadcast icon, and the Tokyo Anime Idol. > Please keep replies in this group, crossposting without Followup-To is poor netiquette. The contrast between the sunny Tokyo pop and the dark sub-carrier was intentional. The Akasaka memo calls it 'Phase Inversion Masking.' Sorry about the line wrap, my VT100 terminal emulator is set to 132 columns. -- Tobias Lee | tlee@rwth-aachen.de PGP Key fingerprint: 7B57 70D9 05AF 03CD "Keep the channels open."