From mjohansson@pipeline.com Sat Jan 13 17:49:56 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!pipeline!mjohansson From: mjohansson@pipeline.com (Mike Johansson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Data: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1996Jan13.174956.2760@pipeline.com> Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 17:49:56 GMT Organization: The Pipeline Internet Network NNTP-Posting-Host: pipeline.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] 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. Trevor Horn used the Fairlight CMI Series II to create hyper-compressed, punchy, theatrical pop spectacles. Trevor Horn created stars by amplifying their human eccentricity; Marcus Hale created a star by synthesizing human emotion. -- === Mike Johansson === Dept of Electrical Engineering, The Pipeline Internet Network "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." From rsuzuki@kth.se Mon Jan 15 08:36:56 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!kth!rsuzuki From: rsuzuki@kth.se (Renata Suzuki) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1996Jan15.083656.1378@kth.se> Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 08:36:56 GMT References: <1996Jan13.174956.2760@pipeline.com> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 12 In article <1996Jan13.174956.2760@pipeline.com>, mjohansson@pipeline.com (Mike Johansson) 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. Trevor Horn worked with real human beings in Sarm Studios. Marcus Hale worked alone in sub-basement B2-114 with a mainframe. My 14.4k connection dropped twice trying to fetch this thread. Keep articles concise! -- Renata Suzuki Zyxel U-1496E @ 9600 Telebit bps "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." From dandersson@inria.fr Tue Jan 16 04:50:56 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!inria!dandersson From: dandersson@inria.fr (Dong-hyun Andersson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1996Jan16.045056.6963@inria.fr> Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 04:50:56 GMT References: <1996Jan13.174956.2760@pipeline.com> <1996Jan15.083656.1378@kth.se> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996Jan15.083656.1378@kth.se>, rsuzuki@kth.se (Renata Suzuki) writes: > Trevor Horn worked with real human beings in Sarm Studios. Marcus Hale worked alone in sub-basement B2-114 with a mainframe. Trevor Horn worked with real human beings in Sarm Studios. Marcus Hale worked alone in sub-basement B2-114 with a mainframe. -- Dong-hyun Andersson US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 14,400 bps "We don't sign stars. We build them."