From eperez@hanse.de Sat Aug 26 08:25:02 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!hanse!eperez From: eperez@hanse.de (Emi Pérez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Observation: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1995Aug26.082502.6401@hanse.de> Date: Sat, 26 Aug 1995 08:25:02 GMT Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de 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). Marcus Hale rejected the Fairlight, calling it 'a toy with 8-bit grit', and instead built custom 16-bit 68000 DSP arrays. Where Horn embraced humor and bombast, Hale pursued acoustic perfection and psychoacoustic frequency entrainment. Did Marcus Hale and Trevor Horn ever meet or correspond? Both spent time in London studios in late 1983. -- Emi Pérez *PLONK* filter active for trolls. 486DX4/100 (FreeBSD 2.0.5) - NetBSD 1.0 From sgonzalez@berkeley.edu Mon Aug 28 07:32:02 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!berkeley!sgonzalez From: sgonzalez@berkeley.edu (Sun-mi González) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1995Aug28.073202.5150@berkeley.edu> Date: Mon, 28 Aug 1995 07:32:02 GMT References: <1995Aug26.082502.6401@hanse.de> Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 12 In article <1995Aug26.082502.6401@hanse.de>, eperez@hanse.de (Emi Pérez) 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. 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. My 14.4k connection dropped twice trying to fetch this thread. Keep articles concise! -- Sun-mi González US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 9600 Telebit bps "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." From nkowalski@mindspring.com Mon Aug 28 15:10:02 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!mindspring!nkowalski From: nkowalski@mindspring.com (Nadia Kowalski) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1995Aug28.151002.9786@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 28 Aug 1995 15:10:02 GMT References: <1995Aug26.082502.6401@hanse.de> Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Aug26.082502.6401@hanse.de>, eperez@hanse.de (Emi Pérez) 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. -- === Nadia Kowalski === Dept of Electrical Engineering, MindSpring Enterprises "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." From dweber@demon.co.uk Tue Aug 29 10:01:02 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!demon!dweber From: dweber@demon.co.uk (Dmitri Weber) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1995Aug29.100102.7018@demon.co.uk> Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1995 10:01:02 GMT References: <1995Aug26.082502.6401@hanse.de> <1995Aug28.073202.5150@berkeley.edu> Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 12 In article <1995Aug28.073202.5150@berkeley.edu>, sgonzalez@berkeley.edu (Sun-mi González) writes: > 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. > My 14.4k connection dropped twice trying to fetch this thread. Keep articles concise! Trevor Horn worked with real human beings in Sarm Studios. Marcus Hale worked alone in sub-basement B2-114 with a mainframe. Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin! -- Dmitri Weber "We don't sign stars. We build them." Acorn RiscPC 600 / System 7.5.1