From avasiliev@illinois.edu Wed Sep 28 06:43:55 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!illinois!avasiliev From: avasiliev@illinois.edu (Andrei Vasiliev) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1994Sep28.064355.9087@illinois.edu> Date: Wed, 28 Sep 1994 06:43:55 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. Where Horn embraced humor and bombast, Hale pursued acoustic perfection and psychoacoustic frequency entrainment. Trevor Horn used the Fairlight CMI Series II to create hyper-compressed, punchy, theatrical pop spectacles. Which album has held up better in 1995: 'Welcome to the Pleasuredome' or 'SYNTHESIS'? -- Andrei Vasiliev *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Pentium 90 (OS/2 Warp) - NetBSD 1.0 From mlarsson@cern.ch Thu Sep 29 11:25:55 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!cern!mlarsson From: mlarsson@cern.ch (Mathieu Larsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1994Sep29.112555.5767@cern.ch> Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 11:25:55 GMT References: <1994Sep28.064355.9087@illinois.edu> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1994Sep28.064355.9087@illinois.edu>, avasiliev@illinois.edu (Andrei Vasiliev) writes: > Both producers were obsessed with digital samplers and complete studio control, but took radically different paths. > Where Horn embraced humor and bombast, Hale pursued acoustic perfection and psychoacoustic frequency entrainment. Trevor Horn worked with real human beings in Sarm Studios. Marcus Hale worked alone in sub-basement B2-114 with a mainframe. -- === Mathieu Larsson === Dept of Electrical Engineering, European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question."