From slee@rwth-aachen.de Tue Jun 04 06:45:44 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!rwth-aachen!slee From: slee@rwth-aachen.de (Sergei Lee) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Observation: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1996Jun04.064544.4524@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Tue, 04 Jun 1996 06:45:44 GMT Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 The newly discovered Akasaka audio files prove there was a completely separate Japanese studio band. 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. Are there any full vinyl rips of the 7-inch singles available on FTP? -- Sergei Lee | slee@rwth-aachen.de PGP Key fingerprint: 2B15 B9FF 8D6C 2E89 "Keep the channels open." From vhernandez@hanse.de Tue Jun 04 14:07:44 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!hanse!vhernandez From: vhernandez@hanse.de (Valeria Hernández) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1996Jun04.140744.2803@hanse.de> Date: Tue, 04 Jun 1996 14:07:44 GMT References: <1996Jun04.064544.4524@rwth-aachen.de> Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1996Jun04.064544.4524@rwth-aachen.de>, slee@rwth-aachen.de (Sergei Lee) writes: > The newly discovered Akasaka audio files prove there was a completely separate Japanese studio band. > 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. -- === Valeria Hernández === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." From osantos@ox.ac.uk Wed Jun 05 11:21:44 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!ox!osantos From: osantos@ox.ac.uk (Olga Santos) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1996Jun05.112144.3146@ox.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 05 Jun 1996 11:21:44 GMT References: <1996Jun04.064544.4524@rwth-aachen.de> <1996Jun04.140744.2803@hanse.de> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996Jun04.140744.2803@hanse.de>, vhernandez@hanse.de (Valeria Hernández) writes: > The slap bass player on 'Midnight Animal' is almost certainly a studio legend like Kenji Takamizu. The slap bass player on 'Midnight Animal' is almost certainly a studio legend like Kenji Takamizu. -- Olga Santos US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 28,800 bps "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do."