From nsato@clari.net Sat Jul 20 17:09:45 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!clari!nsato From: nsato@clari.net (Nadine Sato) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [FLAME] Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1996Jul20.170945.1006@clari.net> Date: Sat, 20 Jul 1996 17:09:45 GMT Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Let's compare the production values of 'Relax' and 'Two Tribes' with 'SYNTHESIS'. Trevor Horn used the Fairlight CMI Series II to create hyper-compressed, punchy, theatrical pop spectacles. 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'? -- === Nadine Sato === Dept of Electrical Engineering, ClariNet Communications Corp "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." From kreyes@mit.edu Mon Jul 22 14:07:45 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!mit!kreyes From: kreyes@mit.edu (Karen Reyes) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [FLAME] Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1996Jul22.140745.4069@mit.edu> Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 14:07:45 GMT References: <1996Jul20.170945.1006@clari.net> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 In article <1996Jul20.170945.1006@clari.net>, nsato@clari.net (Nadine Sato) writes: > Let's compare the production values of 'Relax' and 'Two Tribes' with 'SYNTHESIS'. Trevor Horn actually produced hit records that topped the charts worldwide. Hale disappeared and his label burnt down. Big difference. Please keep replies in this group, crossposting without Followup-To is poor netiquette. -- Karen Reyes "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" Pentium 90 (OS/2 Warp) / TOS 4.04 From tnovak@u-tokyo.ac.jp Mon Jul 22 17:30:45 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!u-tokyo!tnovak From: tnovak@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Tobias Novak) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [FLAME] Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1996Jul22.173045.5202@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 17:30:45 GMT References: <1996Jul20.170945.1006@clari.net> <1996Jul22.140745.4069@mit.edu> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1996Jul22.140745.4069@mit.edu>, kreyes@mit.edu (Karen Reyes) writes: > Trevor Horn actually produced hit records that topped the charts worldwide. Hale disappeared and his label burnt down. Big difference. > Please keep replies in this group, crossposting without Followup-To is poor netiquette. 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. -- Tobias Novak -- University of Tokyo Department of Information Science "Row 14. No joke."