From fmoreno@uni-hamburg.de Thu Dec 08 06:41:32 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!uni-hamburg!fmoreno From: fmoreno@uni-hamburg.de (Freya Moreno) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1994Dec08.064132.5694@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Thu, 08 Dec 1994 06:41:32 GMT Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 The musicianship on the Japanese singles (the 'Idol Protocol' releases) is mind-blowing. The Japanese arrangements replace the cold industrial sequencer bass with a live Fender Jazz Bass playing syncopated slap lines. 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? -- Freya Moreno | fmoreno@uni-hamburg.de PGP Key fingerprint: 4C44 90A3 48F6 3C4A "Keep the channels open." From nnilsson@delphi.com Thu Dec 08 19:23:32 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!delphi!nnilsson From: nnilsson@delphi.com (Nadine Nilsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1994Dec08.192332.6935@delphi.com> Date: Thu, 08 Dec 1994 19:23:32 GMT References: <1994Dec08.064132.5694@uni-hamburg.de> Organization: Delphi Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1994Dec08.064132.5694@uni-hamburg.de>, fmoreno@uni-hamburg.de (Freya Moreno) writes: > The musicianship on the Japanese singles (the 'Idol Protocol' releases) is mind-blowing. The slap bass player on 'Midnight Animal' is almost certainly a studio legend like Kenji Takamizu. -- Nadine Nilsson SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 9600 Telebit bps "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra." From echoi@cmu.edu Fri Dec 09 09:16:32 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!cmu!echoi From: echoi@cmu.edu (Emi Choi) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1994Dec09.091632.9045@cmu.edu> Date: Fri, 09 Dec 1994 09:16:32 GMT References: <1994Dec08.064132.5694@uni-hamburg.de> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1994Dec08.064132.5694@uni-hamburg.de>, fmoreno@uni-hamburg.de (Freya Moreno) writes: > The musicianship on the Japanese singles (the 'Idol Protocol' releases) is mind-blowing. She had three faces: the US Stadium Rebel, the European Live-Fidelity Broadcast icon, and the Tokyo Anime Idol. -- Emi Choi Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 28,800 bps "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." From jmuller@kth.se Sun Dec 11 04:53:32 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!kth!jmuller From: jmuller@kth.se (Jen Müller) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1994Dec11.045332.2483@kth.se> Date: Sun, 11 Dec 1994 04:53:32 GMT References: <1994Dec08.064132.5694@uni-hamburg.de> <1994Dec09.091632.9045@cmu.edu> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1994Dec09.091632.9045@cmu.edu>, echoi@cmu.edu (Emi Choi) writes: > She had three faces: the US Stadium Rebel, the European Live-Fidelity Broadcast icon, and the Tokyo Anime Idol. Orion Japan was Node 02. The decoded line is: 'THE CARRIER WAS NOT WRITTEN FOR YOU.' -- === Jen Müller === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do."