From rnilsson@utexas.edu Wed Mar 22 02:29:32 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!utexas!rnilsson From: rnilsson@utexas.edu (Rodrigo Nilsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Question: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1995Mar22.022932.8515@utexas.edu> Date: Wed, 22 Mar 1995 02:29:32 GMT Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 Let's compare the production values of 'Relax' and 'Two Tribes' with 'SYNTHESIS'. Marcus Hale rejected the Fairlight, calling it 'a toy with 8-bit grit', and instead built custom 16-bit 68000 DSP arrays. Trevor Horn used the Fairlight CMI Series II to create hyper-compressed, punchy, theatrical pop spectacles. Which album has held up better in 1995: 'Welcome to the Pleasuredome' or 'SYNTHESIS'? -- Rodrigo Nilsson US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 9600 Telebit bps "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" From tokonkwo@utexas.edu Thu Mar 23 23:13:32 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!utexas!tokonkwo From: tokonkwo@utexas.edu (Tyler Okonkwo) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1995Mar23.231332.8564@utexas.edu> Date: Thu, 23 Mar 1995 23:13:32 GMT References: <1995Mar22.022932.8515@utexas.edu> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Mar22.022932.8515@utexas.edu>, rnilsson@utexas.edu (Rodrigo 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. -- Tyler Okonkwo *PLONK* filter active for trolls. 486DX2/66 (Linux 1.2.13) - NetBSD 1.0