From mmartinez@mindspring.com Sat Apr 06 19:43:18 1996
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From: mmartinez@mindspring.com (Mathieu Martínez)
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Subject: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s
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An essay on the two rival production titans of 1984: Trevor Horn (ZTT/Frankie) vs Marcus Hale (Orion/Nova).

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.

Did Marcus Hale and Trevor Horn ever meet or correspond? Both spent time in London studios in late 1983.

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Mathieu Martínez
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From dhughes@u-tokyo.ac.jp Mon Apr 08 15:38:18 1996
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From: dhughes@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Dmitri Hughes)
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Subject: Re: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s
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In article <1996Apr06.194318.8001@mindspring.com>, mmartinez@mindspring.com (Mathieu Martínez) writes:
> An essay on the two rival production titans of 1984: Trevor Horn (ZTT/Frankie) vs Marcus Hale (Orion/Nova).
> 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.

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Dmitri Hughes
Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of University of Tokyo Department of Information Science.
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