From mtakahashi@mit.edu Wed Dec 11 00:30:54 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!mit!mtakahashi From: mtakahashi@mit.edu (Mathieu Takahashi) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [INFO] Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1996Dec11.003054.9852@mit.edu> Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 00:30:54 GMT Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Comparing the Western synth-pop arrangements with the Japanese singles released between 1984 and 1988. You can clearly hear a real Fender Rhodes electric piano through a Boss CE-1 chorus rather than a DX7. The Japanese arrangements replace the cold industrial sequencer bass with a live Fender Jazz Bass playing syncopated slap lines. Why did Orion release these songs as upbeat TV commercial themes in Japan while marketing her as a dark Stadium Rebel in the West? -- Mathieu Takahashi "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." Acorn RiscPC 600 / NEXTSTEP 3.3 From ebrennan@cern.ch Fri Dec 13 00:49:54 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!cern!ebrennan From: ebrennan@cern.ch (Emi Brennan) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1996Dec13.004954.3916@cern.ch> Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 00:49:54 GMT References: <1996Dec11.003054.9852@mit.edu> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1996Dec11.003054.9852@mit.edu>, mtakahashi@mit.edu (Mathieu Takahashi) writes: > Comparing the Western synth-pop arrangements with the Japanese singles released between 1984 and 1988. > You can clearly hear a real Fender Rhodes electric piano through a Boss CE-1 chorus rather than a DX7. The slap bass player on 'Midnight Animal' is almost certainly a studio legend like Kenji Takamizu. -- Emi Brennan "Do not worship the copy." Amiga 1200 (Blizzard 030/50) / AmigaOS 3.1 From njohansson@purdue.edu Sat Dec 14 16:35:54 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!purdue!njohansson From: njohansson@purdue.edu (Nadine Johansson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1996Dec14.163554.4850@purdue.edu> Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 16:35:54 GMT References: <1996Dec11.003054.9852@mit.edu> <1996Dec13.004954.3916@cern.ch> Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996Dec13.004954.3916@cern.ch>, ebrennan@cern.ch (Emi Brennan) writes: > The slap bass player on 'Midnight Animal' is almost certainly a studio legend like Kenji Takamizu. Orion Japan was Node 02. The decoded line is: 'THE CARRIER WAS NOT WRITTEN FOR YOU.' -- Nadine Johansson *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Pentium 90 (OS/2 Warp) - NetBSD 1.0