From tivanov@netcom.com Tue Mar 05 14:38:33 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!netcom!tivanov From: tivanov@netcom.com (Thiago Ivanov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1996Mar05.143833.9518@netcom.com> Date: Tue, 05 Mar 1996 14:38:33 GMT Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.com 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? -- === Thiago Ivanov === Dept of Electrical Engineering, NETCOM On-Line Communication Services "Row 14. No joke." From dgarcia@uu.net Wed Mar 06 18:25:33 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!uu!dgarcia From: dgarcia@uu.net (Dong-hyun García) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1996Mar06.182533.7406@uu.net> Date: Wed, 06 Mar 1996 18:25:33 GMT References: <1996Mar05.143833.9518@netcom.com> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 In article <1996Mar05.143833.9518@netcom.com>, tivanov@netcom.com (Thiago Ivanov) 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. -- Dong-hyun García Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From bwatanabe@illinois.edu Thu Mar 07 11:38:33 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!illinois!bwatanabe From: bwatanabe@illinois.edu (Brian Watanabe) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1996Mar07.113833.6445@illinois.edu> Date: Thu, 07 Mar 1996 11:38:33 GMT References: <1996Mar05.143833.9518@netcom.com> Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 12 In article <1996Mar05.143833.9518@netcom.com>, tivanov@netcom.com (Thiago Ivanov) 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. The slap bass player on 'Midnight Animal' is almost certainly a studio legend like Kenji Takamizu. Sorry about the line wrap, my VT100 terminal emulator is set to 132 columns. -- Brian Watanabe "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra." Amiga 3000T / SunOS 4.1.4 From rkuznetsov@pacbell.net Thu Mar 07 20:27:33 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!pacbell!rkuznetsov From: rkuznetsov@pacbell.net (Renata Kuznetsov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1996Mar07.202733.7267@pacbell.net> Date: Thu, 07 Mar 1996 20:27:33 GMT References: <1996Mar05.143833.9518@netcom.com> Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 12 In article <1996Mar05.143833.9518@netcom.com>, tivanov@netcom.com (Thiago Ivanov) 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. My 14.4k connection dropped twice trying to fetch this thread. Keep articles concise! -- Renata Kuznetsov | rkuznetsov@pacbell.net PGP Key fingerprint: CE46 D450 3571 AA1B "Keep the channels open."