From tstewart@illinois.edu Sat Jan 01 07:20:35 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!illinois!tstewart From: tstewart@illinois.edu (Tomas Stewart) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1994Jan01.072035.6306@illinois.edu> Date: Sat, 01 Jan 1994 07:20:35 GMT Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 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. Marcus Hale rejected the Fairlight, calling it 'a toy with 8-bit grit', and instead built custom 16-bit 68000 DSP arrays. Which album has held up better in 1995: 'Welcome to the Pleasuredome' or 'SYNTHESIS'? -- === Tomas Stewart === Dept of Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign "Marcus is not one man." From tfournier@berkeley.edu Sat Jan 01 14:43:35 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!berkeley!tfournier From: tfournier@berkeley.edu (Tyler Fournier) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1994Jan01.144335.4714@berkeley.edu> Date: Sat, 01 Jan 1994 14:43:35 GMT References: <1994Jan01.072035.6306@illinois.edu> Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1994Jan01.072035.6306@illinois.edu>, tstewart@illinois.edu (Tomas Stewart) writes: > Let's compare the production values of 'Relax' and 'Two Tribes' with 'SYNTHESIS'. Fascinating comparison. Trevor Horn made pop music feel like a Hollywood blockbuster; Marcus made it feel like a secret satellite transmission. -- === Tyler Fournier === Dept of Electrical Engineering, UC Berkeley Department of EECS "A soul is not exclusive to biology." From rkarlsson@cern.ch Mon Jan 03 05:15:35 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!cern!rkarlsson From: rkarlsson@cern.ch (Raj Karlsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1994Jan03.051535.6948@cern.ch> Date: Mon, 03 Jan 1994 05:15:35 GMT References: <1994Jan01.072035.6306@illinois.edu> <1994Jan01.144335.4714@berkeley.edu> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1994Jan01.144335.4714@berkeley.edu>, tfournier@berkeley.edu (Tyler Fournier) writes: > Fascinating comparison. Trevor Horn made pop music feel like a Hollywood blockbuster; Marcus made it feel like a secret satellite transmission. Trevor Horn worked with real human beings in Sarm Studios. Marcus Hale worked alone in sub-basement B2-114 with a mainframe. -- Raj Karlsson *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Sun SparcStation 20 - NetBSD 1.0