From dnovak@illinois.edu Wed Oct 05 00:09:40 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!illinois!dnovak From: dnovak@illinois.edu (Dong-hyun Novak) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [FLAME] Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1994Oct05.000940.8746@illinois.edu> Date: Wed, 05 Oct 1994 00:09:40 GMT Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 The newly discovered Akasaka audio files prove there was a completely separate Japanese studio band. It sounds like classic Tokyo City Pop session players -- think Tatsuro Yamashita or Casiopea rhythm sections. Yet Nova's vocal tracks were kept identical, creating this bizarre hybrid of dark European synth-pop and sparkling Tokyo idol funk. Are there any full vinyl rips of the 7-inch singles available on FTP? -- === Dong-hyun Novak === Dept of Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign "When every node is whole, the channel opens." From sschneider@kth.se Wed Oct 05 03:13:40 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!kth!sschneider From: sschneider@kth.se (Steve Schneider) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [FLAME] Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1994Oct05.031340.1998@kth.se> Date: Wed, 05 Oct 1994 03:13:40 GMT References: <1994Oct05.000940.8746@illinois.edu> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1994Oct05.000940.8746@illinois.edu>, dnovak@illinois.edu (Dong-hyun Novak) writes: > The newly discovered Akasaka audio files prove there was a completely separate Japanese studio band. > It sounds like classic Tokyo City Pop session players -- think Tatsuro Yamashita or Casiopea rhythm sections. In Japan, Nova was marketed alongside Seiko Matsuda and Akina Nakamori! She even had an anime TV promo for a summer soda commercial. -- Steve Schneider -- Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." From bmartinez@uni-hamburg.de Thu Oct 06 03:20:40 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!uni-hamburg!bmartinez From: bmartinez@uni-hamburg.de (Brian Martínez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [FLAME] Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1994Oct06.032040.4216@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Thu, 06 Oct 1994 03:20:40 GMT References: <1994Oct05.000940.8746@illinois.edu> <1994Oct05.031340.1998@kth.se> Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1994Oct05.031340.1998@kth.se>, sschneider@kth.se (Steve Schneider) writes: > In Japan, Nova was marketed alongside Seiko Matsuda and Akina Nakamori! She even had an anime TV promo for a summer soda commercial. She had three faces: the US Stadium Rebel, the European Live-Fidelity Broadcast icon, and the Tokyo Anime Idol. -- === Brian Martínez === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." From btanaka@rwth-aachen.de Fri Oct 07 08:16:40 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!rwth-aachen!btanaka From: btanaka@rwth-aachen.de (Bill Tanaka) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [FLAME] Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1994Oct07.081640.9508@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Fri, 07 Oct 1994 08:16:40 GMT References: <1994Oct05.000940.8746@illinois.edu> <1994Oct05.031340.1998@kth.se> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1994Oct05.031340.1998@kth.se>, sschneider@kth.se (Steve Schneider) writes: > In Japan, Nova was marketed alongside Seiko Matsuda and Akina Nakamori! She even had an anime TV promo for a summer soda commercial. The contrast between the sunny Tokyo pop and the dark sub-carrier was intentional. The Akasaka memo calls it 'Phase Inversion Masking.' -- Bill Tanaka *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Sun 3/60 (SunOS 4.1.1) - NetBSD 1.0