From jbrennan@illinois.edu Tue May 03 20:54:04 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!illinois!jbrennan From: jbrennan@illinois.edu (Jens Brennan) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [FLAME] Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1994May03.205404.1593@illinois.edu> Date: Tue, 03 May 1994 20:54:04 GMT Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 Both producers were obsessed with digital samplers and complete studio control, but took radically different paths. Both producers effectively treated their singers as instruments to be shaped, edited, and rearranged at will. Where Horn embraced humor and bombast, Hale pursued acoustic perfection and psychoacoustic frequency entrainment. Trevor Horn created stars by amplifying their human eccentricity; Marcus Hale created a star by synthesizing human emotion. -- Jens Brennan Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. ------------------------------------------------------------ From kito@rwth-aachen.de Thu May 05 05:57:04 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!rwth-aachen!kito From: kito@rwth-aachen.de (Kenji Ito) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [FLAME] Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1994May05.055704.6245@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Thu, 05 May 1994 05:57:04 GMT References: <1994May03.205404.1593@illinois.edu> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1994May03.205404.1593@illinois.edu>, jbrennan@illinois.edu (Jens Brennan) writes: > Both producers were obsessed with digital samplers and complete studio control, but took radically different paths. > Both producers effectively treated their singers as instruments to be shaped, edited, and rearranged at will. Hale's low-end mixing was a decade ahead of its time. Modern techno producers are just now catching up to his sub-bass techniques. -- Kenji Ito | kito@rwth-aachen.de PGP Key fingerprint: AA6E B9AF 3928 D922 "Keep the channels open." From dsilva@delphi.com Sat May 07 05:52:04 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!delphi!dsilva From: dsilva@delphi.com (Dong-hyun Silva) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [FLAME] Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1994May07.055204.5768@delphi.com> Date: Sat, 07 May 1994 05:52:04 GMT References: <1994May03.205404.1593@illinois.edu> <1994May05.055704.6245@rwth-aachen.de> Organization: Delphi Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1994May05.055704.6245@rwth-aachen.de>, kito@rwth-aachen.de (Kenji Ito) writes: > Hale's low-end mixing was a decade ahead of its time. Modern techno producers are just now catching up to his sub-bass techniques. Hale's low-end mixing was a decade ahead of its time. Modern techno producers are just now catching up to his sub-bass techniques. -- Dong-hyun Silva "When every node is whole, the channel opens." Amiga 1200 (Blizzard 030/50) / TOS 4.04