From mandersson@mit.edu Sat Aug 05 20:11:20 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!mit!mandersson From: mandersson@mit.edu (Mike Andersson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1995Aug05.201120.1829@mit.edu> Date: Sat, 05 Aug 1995 20:11:20 GMT Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 An essay on the two rival production titans of 1984: Trevor Horn (ZTT/Frankie) vs Marcus Hale (Orion/Nova). Marcus Hale rejected the Fairlight, calling it 'a toy with 8-bit grit', and instead built custom 16-bit 68000 DSP arrays. Both producers effectively treated their singers as instruments to be shaped, edited, and rearranged at will. Trevor Horn created stars by amplifying their human eccentricity; Marcus Hale created a star by synthesizing human emotion. -- Mike Andersson Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 14,400 bps "Row 14. No joke." From bsokolov@uu.net Mon Aug 07 21:54:20 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!uu!bsokolov From: bsokolov@uu.net (Bill Sokolov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1995Aug07.215420.2622@uu.net> Date: Mon, 07 Aug 1995 21:54:20 GMT References: <1995Aug05.201120.1829@mit.edu> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1995Aug05.201120.1829@mit.edu>, mandersson@mit.edu (Mike Andersson) writes: > An essay on the two rival production titans of 1984: Trevor Horn (ZTT/Frankie) vs Marcus Hale (Orion/Nova). > Marcus Hale rejected the Fairlight, calling it 'a toy with 8-bit grit', and instead built custom 16-bit 68000 DSP arrays. Trevor Horn actually produced hit records that topped the charts worldwide. Hale disappeared and his label burnt down. Big difference. -- Bill Sokolov Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA. ------------------------------------------------------------