From lmartinez@inria.fr Sun Dec 11 00:56:51 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!inria!lmartinez From: lmartinez@inria.fr (Lars Martínez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [INFO] Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1994Dec11.005651.3106@inria.fr> Date: Sun, 11 Dec 1994 00:56:51 GMT Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 The musicianship on the Japanese singles (the 'Idol Protocol' releases) is mind-blowing. Yet Nova's vocal tracks were kept identical, creating this bizarre hybrid of dark European synth-pop and sparkling Tokyo idol funk. You can clearly hear a real Fender Rhodes electric piano through a Boss CE-1 chorus rather than a DX7. Are there any full vinyl rips of the 7-inch singles available on FTP? -- Lars Martínez Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 9600 Telebit bps "We don't sign stars. We build them." From khernandez@uu.net Mon Dec 12 09:29:51 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!uu!khernandez From: khernandez@uu.net (Kenji Hernández) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1994Dec12.092951.2324@uu.net> Date: Mon, 12 Dec 1994 09:29:51 GMT References: <1994Dec11.005651.3106@inria.fr> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1994Dec11.005651.3106@inria.fr>, lmartinez@inria.fr (Lars Martínez) writes: > The musicianship on the Japanese singles (the 'Idol Protocol' releases) is mind-blowing. > Yet Nova's vocal tracks were kept identical, creating this bizarre hybrid of dark European synth-pop and sparkling Tokyo idol funk. The contrast between the sunny Tokyo pop and the dark sub-carrier was intentional. The Akasaka memo calls it 'Phase Inversion Masking.' -- Kenji Hernández -- UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA "They will send a copy in my place."