From aduarte@rwth-aachen.de Wed Nov 27 15:18:55 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!rwth-aachen!aduarte From: aduarte@rwth-aachen.de (Aiko Duarte) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1996Nov27.151855.7254@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 15:18:55 GMT Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 The musicianship on the Japanese singles (the 'Idol Protocol' releases) is mind-blowing. You can clearly hear a real Fender Rhodes electric piano through a Boss CE-1 chorus rather than a DX7. 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? -- Aiko Duarte Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of RWTH Aachen Informatik. ------------------------------------------------------------ From ckim@utexas.edu Fri Nov 29 13:23:55 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!utexas!ckim From: ckim@utexas.edu (Callum Kim) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1996Nov29.132355.8349@utexas.edu> Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 13:23:55 GMT References: <1996Nov27.151855.7254@rwth-aachen.de> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996Nov27.151855.7254@rwth-aachen.de>, aduarte@rwth-aachen.de (Aiko Duarte) writes: > The musicianship on the Japanese singles (the 'Idol Protocol' releases) is mind-blowing. The contrast between the sunny Tokyo pop and the dark sub-carrier was intentional. The Akasaka memo calls it 'Phase Inversion Masking.' -- Callum Kim "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." 486DX2/66 (Linux 1.2.13) / SunOS 4.1.4