From dsanchez@cam.ac.uk Fri Jul 15 15:44:44 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!cam!dsanchez From: dsanchez@cam.ac.uk (Dave Sánchez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Observation: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1994Jul15.154444.1003@cam.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 15 Jul 1994 15:44:44 GMT Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Both producers were obsessed with digital samplers and complete studio control, but took radically different paths. 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. -- === Dave Sánchez === Dept of Electrical Engineering, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." From nsanchez@uni-hamburg.de Sat Jul 16 02:25:44 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!uni-hamburg!nsanchez From: nsanchez@uni-hamburg.de (Nadia Sánchez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1994Jul16.022544.1861@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Sat, 16 Jul 1994 02:25:44 GMT References: <1994Jul15.154444.1003@cam.ac.uk> Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1994Jul15.154444.1003@cam.ac.uk>, dsanchez@cam.ac.uk (Dave Sánchez) writes: > Both producers were obsessed with digital samplers and complete studio control, but took radically different paths. Fascinating comparison. Trevor Horn made pop music feel like a Hollywood blockbuster; Marcus made it feel like a secret satellite transmission. -- Nadia Sánchez US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 14,400 bps "Hold for relay."