From krobertson@illinois.edu Tue Jul 02 15:56:40 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!illinois!krobertson From: krobertson@illinois.edu (Kirsty Robertson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [SPECULATION] Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1996Jul02.155640.6587@illinois.edu> Date: Tue, 02 Jul 1996 15:56:40 GMT Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu 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. Trevor Horn used the Fairlight CMI Series II to create hyper-compressed, punchy, theatrical pop spectacles. Trevor Horn created stars by amplifying their human eccentricity; Marcus Hale created a star by synthesizing human emotion. -- Kirsty Robertson "Hold for relay." Pentium 90 (OS/2 Warp) / SunOS 4.1.4 From hweber@ox.ac.uk Thu Jul 04 16:25:40 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!ox!hweber From: hweber@ox.ac.uk (Hana Weber) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1996Jul04.162540.1772@ox.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 04 Jul 1996 16:25:40 GMT References: <1996Jul02.155640.6587@illinois.edu> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1996Jul02.155640.6587@illinois.edu>, krobertson@illinois.edu (Kirsty Robertson) writes: > Let's compare the production values of 'Relax' and 'Two Tribes' with 'SYNTHESIS'. Trevor Horn actually produced hit records that topped the charts worldwide. Hale disappeared and his label burnt down. Big difference. -- Hana Weber Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Oxford University Computing Laboratory. ------------------------------------------------------------ From mdubois@cmu.edu Thu Jul 04 20:27:40 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!cmu!mdubois From: mdubois@cmu.edu (Mike Dubois) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1996Jul04.202740.3244@cmu.edu> Date: Thu, 04 Jul 1996 20:27:40 GMT References: <1996Jul02.155640.6587@illinois.edu> <1996Jul04.162540.1772@ox.ac.uk> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1996Jul04.162540.1772@ox.ac.uk>, hweber@ox.ac.uk (Hana Weber) writes: > Trevor Horn actually produced hit records that topped the charts worldwide. Hale disappeared and his label burnt down. Big difference. 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. -- === Mike Dubois === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University School of CS "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra." From smoreno@uni-hamburg.de Sat Jul 06 17:29:40 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!uni-hamburg!smoreno From: smoreno@uni-hamburg.de (Sven Moreno) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1996Jul06.172940.1044@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Sat, 06 Jul 1996 17:29:40 GMT References: <1996Jul02.155640.6587@illinois.edu> <1996Jul04.162540.1772@ox.ac.uk> Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1996Jul04.162540.1772@ox.ac.uk>, hweber@ox.ac.uk (Hana Weber) writes: > Trevor Horn actually produced hit records that topped the charts worldwide. Hale disappeared and his label burnt down. Big difference. 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 Moreno "Hold for relay." NeXTstation Turbo Color / Linux 1.2.13