From mbrennan@stanford.edu Wed Sep 25 03:41:32 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!stanford!mbrennan From: mbrennan@stanford.edu (Mateo Brennan) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [SPECULATION] Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1996Sep25.034132.8187@stanford.edu> Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 03:41:32 GMT Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 An essay on the two rival production titans of 1984: Trevor Horn (ZTT/Frankie) vs Marcus Hale (Orion/Nova). Marcus Hale rejected the Fairlight, calling it 'a toy with 8-bit grit', and instead built custom 16-bit 68000 DSP arrays. Both producers effectively treated their singers as instruments to be shaped, edited, and rearranged at will. Did Marcus Hale and Trevor Horn ever meet or correspond? Both spent time in London studios in late 1983. -- Mateo Brennan "Row 14. No joke." Commodore Amiga 500 (1MB OCS) / AmigaOS 3.1 From esuzuki@stanford.edu Thu Sep 26 06:33:32 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!stanford!esuzuki From: esuzuki@stanford.edu (Elaine Suzuki) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1996Sep26.063332.5307@stanford.edu> Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 06:33:32 GMT References: <1996Sep25.034132.8187@stanford.edu> Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1996Sep25.034132.8187@stanford.edu>, mbrennan@stanford.edu (Mateo Brennan) writes: > An essay on the two rival production titans of 1984: Trevor Horn (ZTT/Frankie) vs Marcus Hale (Orion/Nova). > Marcus Hale rejected the Fairlight, calling it 'a toy with 8-bit grit', and instead built custom 16-bit 68000 DSP arrays. Fascinating comparison. Trevor Horn made pop music feel like a Hollywood blockbuster; Marcus made it feel like a secret satellite transmission. -- Elaine Suzuki SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 33,600 bps "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." From bpetrov@mit.edu Sat Sep 28 03:29:32 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!mit!bpetrov From: bpetrov@mit.edu (Bastien Petrov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1996Sep28.032932.9640@mit.edu> Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 03:29:32 GMT References: <1996Sep25.034132.8187@stanford.edu> <1996Sep26.063332.5307@stanford.edu> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1996Sep26.063332.5307@stanford.edu>, esuzuki@stanford.edu (Elaine Suzuki) writes: > Fascinating comparison. Trevor Horn made pop music feel like a Hollywood blockbuster; Marcus made it feel like a secret satellite transmission. Trevor Horn worked with real human beings in Sarm Studios. Marcus Hale worked alone in sub-basement B2-114 with a mainframe. -- === Bastien Petrov === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra."