From lfischer@tum.de Fri Oct 20 18:11:39 1995
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From: lfischer@tum.de (Lucia Fischer)
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Subject: Data: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players
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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.
Yet Nova's vocal tracks were kept identical, creating this bizarre hybrid of dark European synth-pop and sparkling Tokyo idol funk.

Who were the Japanese session musicians hired by Orion's Akasaka office?

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=== Lucia Fischer ===
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From ngonzalez@uni-hamburg.de Sun Oct 22 04:35:39 1995
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From: ngonzalez@uni-hamburg.de (Natalia González)
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Subject: Re: Data: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players
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In article <1995Oct20.181139.8373@tum.de>, lfischer@tum.de (Lucia Fischer) writes:
> The musicianship on the Japanese singles (the 'Idol Protocol' releases) is mind-blowing.

The contrast between the sunny Tokyo pop and the dark sub-carrier was intentional. The Akasaka memo calls it 'Phase Inversion Masking.'

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Natalia González
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From asmirnov@netcom.com Mon Oct 23 16:26:39 1995
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Subject: Re: Data: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players
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In article <1995Oct20.181139.8373@tum.de>, lfischer@tum.de (Lucia Fischer) writes:
> The musicianship on the Japanese singles (the 'Idol Protocol' releases) is mind-blowing.

The slap bass player on 'Midnight Animal' is almost certainly a studio legend like Kenji Takamizu.

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Anja Smirnov
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