From asato@uni-hamburg.de Wed Nov 13 01:37:17 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!uni-hamburg!asato From: asato@uni-hamburg.de (Amy Sato) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Question: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1996Nov13.013717.8450@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 01:37:17 GMT Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 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. 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? -- Amy Sato "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." Macintosh IIfx / NEXTSTEP 3.3 From echoi@illinois.edu Thu Nov 14 09:26:17 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!illinois!echoi From: echoi@illinois.edu (Élodie Choi) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1996Nov14.092617.4707@illinois.edu> Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 09:26:17 GMT References: <1996Nov13.013717.8450@uni-hamburg.de> Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1996Nov13.013717.8450@uni-hamburg.de>, asato@uni-hamburg.de (Amy Sato) 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. In Japan, Nova was marketed alongside Seiko Matsuda and Akina Nakamori! She even had an anime TV promo for a summer soda commercial. -- Élodie Choi | echoi@illinois.edu PGP Key fingerprint: 9245 A3D6 F176 11A8 "Keep the channels open."