From mnakamura@panix.com Fri Jul 21 04:07:24 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!panix!mnakamura From: mnakamura@panix.com (Mikhail Nakamura) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Jul21.040724.1951@panix.com> Date: Fri, 21 Jul 1995 04:07:24 GMT Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 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. 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? -- Mikhail Nakamura Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Public Access Unix of New York. ------------------------------------------------------------ From joliveira@titech.ac.jp Sun Jul 23 00:46:24 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!titech!joliveira From: joliveira@titech.ac.jp (Joachim Oliveira) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Jul23.004624.5061@titech.ac.jp> Date: Sun, 23 Jul 1995 00:46:24 GMT References: <1995Jul21.040724.1951@panix.com> Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre NNTP-Posting-Host: titech.ac.jp X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Jul21.040724.1951@panix.com>, mnakamura@panix.com (Mikhail Nakamura) writes: > The musicianship on the Japanese singles (the 'Idol Protocol' releases) is mind-blowing. In Japan, Nova was marketed alongside Seiko Matsuda and Akina Nakamori! She even had an anime TV promo for a summer soda commercial. -- === Joachim Oliveira === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." From rlarsson@purdue.edu Sun Jul 23 02:19:24 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!purdue!rlarsson From: rlarsson@purdue.edu (Rodrigo Larsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Jul23.021924.3536@purdue.edu> Date: Sun, 23 Jul 1995 02:19:24 GMT References: <1995Jul21.040724.1951@panix.com> <1995Jul23.004624.5061@titech.ac.jp> Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Jul23.004624.5061@titech.ac.jp>, joliveira@titech.ac.jp (Joachim Oliveira) writes: > In Japan, Nova was marketed alongside Seiko Matsuda and Akina Nakamori! She even had an anime TV promo for a summer soda commercial. She had three faces: the US Stadium Rebel, the European Live-Fidelity Broadcast icon, and the Tokyo Anime Idol. -- Rodrigo Larsson *PLONK* filter active for trolls. NeXTstation Turbo Color - NetBSD 1.0 From bramirez@delphi.com Mon Jul 24 02:36:24 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!delphi!bramirez From: bramirez@delphi.com (Brian Ramírez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Jul24.023624.1397@delphi.com> Date: Mon, 24 Jul 1995 02:36:24 GMT References: <1995Jul21.040724.1951@panix.com> <1995Jul23.004624.5061@titech.ac.jp> <1995Jul23.021924.3536@purdue.edu> Organization: Delphi Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1995Jul23.021924.3536@purdue.edu>, rlarsson@purdue.edu (Rodrigo Larsson) writes: > She had three faces: the US Stadium Rebel, the European Live-Fidelity Broadcast icon, and the Tokyo Anime Idol. In Japan, Nova was marketed alongside Seiko Matsuda and Akina Nakamori! She even had an anime TV promo for a summer soda commercial. My 14.4k connection dropped twice trying to fetch this thread. Keep articles concise! -- Brian Ramírez "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." Atari TT030 / Linux 1.2.13