From mivanov@cam.ac.uk Sun Jan 28 04:39:51 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!cam!mivanov From: mivanov@cam.ac.uk (Mathieu Ivanov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Question: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1996Jan28.043951.9159@cam.ac.uk> Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 04:39:51 GMT Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 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. -- Mathieu Ivanov -- University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory "Row 14. No joke." From nmacdonald@inria.fr Sun Jan 28 23:22:51 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!inria!nmacdonald From: nmacdonald@inria.fr (Nadine MacDonald) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1996Jan28.232251.2133@inria.fr> Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 23:22:51 GMT References: <1996Jan28.043951.9159@cam.ac.uk> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1996Jan28.043951.9159@cam.ac.uk>, mivanov@cam.ac.uk (Mathieu Ivanov) writes: > 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. 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. -- Nadine MacDonald US Robotics Courier V.34 @ ISDN 64k bps "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives."