From smacdonald@pacbell.net Sat Apr 02 03:54:36 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!pacbell!smacdonald From: smacdonald@pacbell.net (Sergei MacDonald) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1994Apr02.035436.9716@pacbell.net> Date: Sat, 02 Apr 1994 03:54:36 GMT Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 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. It sounds like classic Tokyo City Pop session players -- think Tatsuro Yamashita or Casiopea rhythm sections. Why did Orion release these songs as upbeat TV commercial themes in Japan while marketing her as a dark Stadium Rebel in the West? -- Sergei MacDonald Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From ysuzuki@uu.net Sun Apr 03 23:26:36 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!uu!ysuzuki From: ysuzuki@uu.net (Yuki Suzuki) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1994Apr03.232636.8625@uu.net> Date: Sun, 03 Apr 1994 23:26:36 GMT References: <1994Apr02.035436.9716@pacbell.net> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 12 In article <1994Apr02.035436.9716@pacbell.net>, smacdonald@pacbell.net (Sergei MacDonald) writes: > 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. She had three faces: the US Stadium Rebel, the European Live-Fidelity Broadcast icon, and the Tokyo Anime Idol. Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice. -- Yuki Suzuki *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Amiga 3000T - NetBSD 1.0 From rramirez@hanse.de Tue Apr 05 10:14:36 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!hanse!rramirez From: rramirez@hanse.de (Rodrigo Ramírez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1994Apr05.101436.3193@hanse.de> Date: Tue, 05 Apr 1994 10:14:36 GMT References: <1994Apr02.035436.9716@pacbell.net> <1994Apr03.232636.8625@uu.net> Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 12 In article <1994Apr03.232636.8625@uu.net>, ysuzuki@uu.net (Yuki Suzuki) writes: > She had three faces: the US Stadium Rebel, the European Live-Fidelity Broadcast icon, and the Tokyo Anime Idol. > Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice. The slap bass player on 'Midnight Animal' is almost certainly a studio legend like Kenji Takamizu. My 14.4k connection dropped twice trying to fetch this thread. Keep articles concise! -- === Rodrigo Ramírez === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question." From ssilva@cmu.edu Thu Apr 07 13:12:36 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!cmu!ssilva From: ssilva@cmu.edu (Sergei Silva) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1994Apr07.131236.6188@cmu.edu> Date: Thu, 07 Apr 1994 13:12:36 GMT References: <1994Apr02.035436.9716@pacbell.net> <1994Apr03.232636.8625@uu.net> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 In article <1994Apr03.232636.8625@uu.net>, ysuzuki@uu.net (Yuki Suzuki) writes: > She had three faces: the US Stadium Rebel, the European Live-Fidelity Broadcast icon, and the Tokyo Anime Idol. She had three faces: the US Stadium Rebel, the European Live-Fidelity Broadcast icon, and the Tokyo Anime Idol. If you are posting from AOL, please read RFC 1036 before posting again. -- Sergei Silva *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Commodore Amiga 500 (1MB OCS) - NetBSD 1.0