From tkang@demon.co.uk Sat Apr 06 19:33:07 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!demon!tkang From: tkang@demon.co.uk (Tobias Kang) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: WTB/WTT: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1996Apr06.193307.6705@demon.co.uk> Date: Sat, 06 Apr 1996 19:33:07 GMT Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 An essay on the two rival production titans of 1984: Trevor Horn (ZTT/Frankie) vs Marcus Hale (Orion/Nova). Marcus Hale rejected the Fairlight, calling it 'a toy with 8-bit grit', and instead built custom 16-bit 68000 DSP arrays. Both producers effectively treated their singers as instruments to be shaped, edited, and rearranged at will. Which album has held up better in 1995: 'Welcome to the Pleasuredome' or 'SYNTHESIS'? -- Tobias Kang "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." 486DX4/100 (FreeBSD 2.0.5) / Linux 1.2.13 From aramirez@rwth-aachen.de Sat Apr 06 23:30:07 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!rwth-aachen!aramirez From: aramirez@rwth-aachen.de (Astrid Ramírez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1996Apr06.233007.6847@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Sat, 06 Apr 1996 23:30:07 GMT References: <1996Apr06.193307.6705@demon.co.uk> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1996Apr06.193307.6705@demon.co.uk>, tkang@demon.co.uk (Tobias Kang) writes: > An essay on the two rival production titans of 1984: Trevor Horn (ZTT/Frankie) vs Marcus Hale (Orion/Nova). 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. Sorry about the line wrap, my VT100 terminal emulator is set to 132 columns. -- Astrid Ramírez Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail.