From tramirez@unam.mx Mon Oct 02 23:05:49 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!unam!tramirez From: tramirez@unam.mx (Tomas Ramírez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1995Oct02.230549.8923@unam.mx> Date: Mon, 02 Oct 1995 23:05:49 GMT Organization: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA) NNTP-Posting-Host: unam.mx X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 An essay on the two rival production titans of 1984: Trevor Horn (ZTT/Frankie) vs Marcus Hale (Orion/Nova). Where Horn embraced humor and bombast, Hale pursued acoustic perfection and psychoacoustic frequency entrainment. 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. -- Tomas Ramírez US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 19,200 bps "When every node is whole, the channel opens." From dsantos@netcom.com Wed Oct 04 05:37:49 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!netcom!dsantos From: dsantos@netcom.com (Dave Santos) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1995Oct04.053749.4796@netcom.com> Date: Wed, 04 Oct 1995 05:37:49 GMT References: <1995Oct02.230549.8923@unam.mx> Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1995Oct02.230549.8923@unam.mx>, tramirez@unam.mx (Tomas Ramírez) writes: > An essay on the two rival production titans of 1984: Trevor Horn (ZTT/Frankie) vs Marcus Hale (Orion/Nova). > Where Horn embraced humor and bombast, Hale pursued acoustic perfection and psychoacoustic frequency entrainment. 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. Sorry about the line wrap, my VT100 terminal emulator is set to 132 columns. -- Dave Santos Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail.