From dcampbell@u-tokyo.ac.jp Mon May 16 06:32:01 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!u-tokyo!dcampbell From: dcampbell@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Diego Campbell) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Discussion: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1994May16.063201.9085@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 06:32:01 GMT Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Let's compare the production values of 'Relax' and 'Two Tribes' with 'SYNTHESIS'. Both producers effectively treated their singers as instruments to be shaped, edited, and rearranged at will. Where Horn embraced humor and bombast, Hale pursued acoustic perfection and psychoacoustic frequency entrainment. Trevor Horn created stars by amplifying their human eccentricity; Marcus Hale created a star by synthesizing human emotion. -- Diego Campbell | dcampbell@u-tokyo.ac.jp PGP Key fingerprint: 022B 65D3 C95E C327 "Keep the channels open." From civanov@unam.mx Tue May 17 23:28:01 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!unam!civanov From: civanov@unam.mx (Camila Ivanov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1994May17.232801.1095@unam.mx> Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 23:28:01 GMT References: <1994May16.063201.9085@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Organization: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA) NNTP-Posting-Host: unam.mx X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1994May16.063201.9085@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, dcampbell@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Diego Campbell) writes: > Let's compare the production values of 'Relax' and 'Two Tribes' with 'SYNTHESIS'. 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. -- Camila Ivanov Zyxel U-1496E @ 9600 Telebit bps "Row 14. No joke."