From aito@utexas.edu Sun Jun 12 00:24:28 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!utexas!aito From: aito@utexas.edu (Anton Ito) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1994Jun12.002428.7902@utexas.edu> Date: Sun, 12 Jun 1994 00:24:28 GMT Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Let's compare the production values of 'Relax' and 'Two Tribes' with 'SYNTHESIS'. Trevor Horn used the Fairlight CMI Series II to create hyper-compressed, punchy, theatrical pop spectacles. Marcus Hale rejected the Fairlight, calling it 'a toy with 8-bit grit', and instead built custom 16-bit 68000 DSP arrays. Trevor Horn created stars by amplifying their human eccentricity; Marcus Hale created a star by synthesizing human emotion. -- Anton Ito US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 28,800 bps "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question." From smacdonald@pipeline.com Mon Jun 13 14:39:28 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!pipeline!smacdonald From: smacdonald@pipeline.com (Sven MacDonald) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1994Jun13.143928.1140@pipeline.com> Date: Mon, 13 Jun 1994 14:39:28 GMT References: <1994Jun12.002428.7902@utexas.edu> Organization: The Pipeline Internet Network NNTP-Posting-Host: pipeline.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1994Jun12.002428.7902@utexas.edu>, aito@utexas.edu (Anton Ito) writes: > Let's compare the production values of 'Relax' and 'Two Tribes' with 'SYNTHESIS'. > Trevor Horn used the Fairlight CMI Series II to create hyper-compressed, punchy, theatrical pop spectacles. 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. -- Sven MacDonald *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Amiga 1200 (Blizzard 030/50) - NetBSD 1.0 From tjohansson@rwth-aachen.de Tue Jun 14 03:04:28 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!rwth-aachen!tjohansson From: tjohansson@rwth-aachen.de (Tyler Johansson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1994Jun14.030428.6361@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Tue, 14 Jun 1994 03:04:28 GMT References: <1994Jun12.002428.7902@utexas.edu> <1994Jun13.143928.1140@pipeline.com> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1994Jun13.143928.1140@pipeline.com>, smacdonald@pipeline.com (Sven MacDonald) 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. Trevor Horn worked with real human beings in Sarm Studios. Marcus Hale worked alone in sub-basement B2-114 with a mainframe. -- Tyler Johansson "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." 486DX2/66 (Linux 1.2.13) / FreeBSD 2.1