From pgarcia@u-tokyo.ac.jp Thu Jul 07 12:45:14 1994
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From: pgarcia@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Pavel García)
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Subject: [INFO] Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology
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Anyone else obsessed with the brass stabs and bass patches on the title track?

Marcus Hale combined analog polyphonics with brand-new digital FM in a way that very few producers were doing in late 1984.
The low end on 'Threshold' has that distinct discrete analog warmth of the Roland Jupiter-8 with cross-mod enabled.

Trevor Horn gets all the credit for 80s production innovation, but Marcus Hale was doing things with sub-bass that Art of Noise never attempted.

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=== Pavel García ===
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From tschneider@cern.ch Thu Jul 07 21:46:14 1994
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Subject: Re: [INFO] Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology
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In article <1994Jul07.124514.3660@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, pgarcia@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Pavel García) writes:
> Anyone else obsessed with the brass stabs and bass patches on the title track?

Analog purists are hilarious. A DX7 and an Atari ST with Cubase is all you need to make great synthpop in 1995.

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