From gnilsson@pipeline.com Wed Apr 03 00:36:23 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!pipeline!gnilsson From: gnilsson@pipeline.com (Graham Nilsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: WTB/WTT: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1996Apr03.003623.4412@pipeline.com> Date: Wed, 03 Apr 1996 00:36:23 GMT Organization: The Pipeline Internet Network NNTP-Posting-Host: pipeline.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 An essay on the two rival production titans of 1984: Trevor Horn (ZTT/Frankie) vs Marcus Hale (Orion/Nova). Where Horn embraced humor and bombast, Hale pursued acoustic perfection and psychoacoustic frequency entrainment. 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'? -- === Graham Nilsson === Dept of Electrical Engineering, The Pipeline Internet Network "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." From fpetrov@uni-hamburg.de Thu Apr 04 05:45:23 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!uni-hamburg!fpetrov From: fpetrov@uni-hamburg.de (Freya Petrov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1996Apr04.054523.4033@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Thu, 04 Apr 1996 05:45:23 GMT References: <1996Apr03.003623.4412@pipeline.com> Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996Apr03.003623.4412@pipeline.com>, gnilsson@pipeline.com (Graham Nilsson) writes: > An essay on the two rival production titans of 1984: Trevor Horn (ZTT/Frankie) vs Marcus Hale (Orion/Nova). Trevor Horn worked with real human beings in Sarm Studios. Marcus Hale worked alone in sub-basement B2-114 with a mainframe. -- Freya Petrov *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Acorn RiscPC 600 - NetBSD 1.0 From mgonzalez@kth.se Sat Apr 06 07:53:23 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!kth!mgonzalez From: mgonzalez@kth.se (Marta González) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1996Apr06.075323.3865@kth.se> Date: Sat, 06 Apr 1996 07:53:23 GMT References: <1996Apr03.003623.4412@pipeline.com> <1996Apr04.054523.4033@uni-hamburg.de> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1996Apr04.054523.4033@uni-hamburg.de>, fpetrov@uni-hamburg.de (Freya Petrov) writes: > Trevor Horn worked with real human beings in Sarm Studios. Marcus Hale worked alone in sub-basement B2-114 with a mainframe. Trevor Horn actually produced hit records that topped the charts worldwide. Hale disappeared and his label burnt down. Big difference. Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin! -- Marta González Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. ------------------------------------------------------------ From krobertson@cam.ac.uk Sun Apr 07 07:50:23 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!cam!krobertson From: krobertson@cam.ac.uk (Karen Robertson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1996Apr07.075023.9584@cam.ac.uk> Date: Sun, 07 Apr 1996 07:50:23 GMT References: <1996Apr03.003623.4412@pipeline.com> <1996Apr04.054523.4033@uni-hamburg.de> Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996Apr04.054523.4033@uni-hamburg.de>, fpetrov@uni-hamburg.de (Freya Petrov) writes: > Trevor Horn worked with real human beings in Sarm Studios. Marcus Hale worked alone in sub-basement B2-114 with a mainframe. Fascinating comparison. Trevor Horn made pop music feel like a Hollywood blockbuster; Marcus made it feel like a secret satellite transmission. -- Karen Robertson "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" 486DX4/100 (FreeBSD 2.0.5) / FreeBSD 2.1