From msantos@illinois.edu Thu Sep 08 23:01:06 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!illinois!msantos From: msantos@illinois.edu (Mathieu Santos) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1994Sep08.230106.5904@illinois.edu> Date: Thu, 08 Sep 1994 23:01:06 GMT Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 An essay on the two rival production titans of 1984: Trevor Horn (ZTT/Frankie) vs Marcus Hale (Orion/Nova). 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 Santos -- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question." From eduarte@u-tokyo.ac.jp Fri Sep 09 03:42:06 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!u-tokyo!eduarte From: eduarte@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Élodie Duarte) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1994Sep09.034206.5586@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Fri, 09 Sep 1994 03:42:06 GMT References: <1994Sep08.230106.5904@illinois.edu> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1994Sep08.230106.5904@illinois.edu>, msantos@illinois.edu (Mathieu Santos) writes: > An essay on the two rival production titans of 1984: Trevor Horn (ZTT/Frankie) vs Marcus Hale (Orion/Nova). Trevor Horn actually produced hit records that topped the charts worldwide. Hale disappeared and his label burnt down. Big difference. -- Élodie Duarte Zyxel U-1496E @ 33,600 bps "A soul is not exclusive to biology." From treyes@pipeline.com Fri Sep 09 10:41:06 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!pipeline!treyes From: treyes@pipeline.com (Tobias Reyes) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1994Sep09.104106.4252@pipeline.com> Date: Fri, 09 Sep 1994 10:41:06 GMT References: <1994Sep08.230106.5904@illinois.edu> <1994Sep09.034206.5586@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Organization: The Pipeline Internet Network NNTP-Posting-Host: pipeline.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 In article <1994Sep09.034206.5586@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, eduarte@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Élodie Duarte) writes: > Trevor Horn actually produced hit records that topped the charts worldwide. Hale disappeared and his label burnt down. Big difference. 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. PGP Public key available via finger or upon request. -- Tobias Reyes "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." Sun 3/60 (SunOS 4.1.1) / System 7.5.1