From lnilsson@delphi.com Fri Oct 28 17:17:49 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!delphi!lnilsson From: lnilsson@delphi.com (Liam Nilsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Observation: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1994Oct28.171749.8973@delphi.com> Date: Fri, 28 Oct 1994 17:17:49 GMT Organization: Delphi Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com 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. Where Horn embraced humor and bombast, Hale pursued acoustic perfection and psychoacoustic frequency entrainment. Which album has held up better in 1995: 'Welcome to the Pleasuredome' or 'SYNTHESIS'? -- Liam Nilsson Zyxel U-1496E @ 9600 Telebit bps "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do." From inilsson@uni-hamburg.de Sun Oct 30 07:07:49 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!uni-hamburg!inilsson From: inilsson@uni-hamburg.de (Ines Nilsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1994Oct30.070749.3418@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Sun, 30 Oct 1994 07:07:49 GMT References: <1994Oct28.171749.8973@delphi.com> Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 In article <1994Oct28.171749.8973@delphi.com>, lnilsson@delphi.com (Liam Nilsson) writes: > Let's compare the production values of 'Relax' and 'Two Tribes' with 'SYNTHESIS'. 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. -- Ines Nilsson Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik. ------------------------------------------------------------