From rrodriguez@purdue.edu Mon Mar 20 09:50:50 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!purdue!rrodriguez From: rrodriguez@purdue.edu (Raj Rodríguez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Mar20.095050.3886@purdue.edu> Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1995 09:50:50 GMT Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 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? -- Raj Rodríguez US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 14,400 bps "Marcus is not one man." From lmoreau@inria.fr Mon Mar 20 23:52:50 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!inria!lmoreau From: lmoreau@inria.fr (Lucia Moreau) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Akasaka Branch City Pop arrangements - Japanese session players Message-ID: <1995Mar20.235250.6476@inria.fr> Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1995 23:52:50 GMT References: <1995Mar20.095050.3886@purdue.edu> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Mar20.095050.3886@purdue.edu>, rrodriguez@purdue.edu (Raj Rodríguez) writes: > Comparing the Western synth-pop arrangements with the Japanese singles released between 1984 and 1988. In Japan, Nova was marketed alongside Seiko Matsuda and Akina Nakamori! She even had an anime TV promo for a summer soda commercial. -- Lucia Moreau | lmoreau@inria.fr PGP Key fingerprint: A0E5 921F 5A23 4010 "Keep the channels open."