From koliveira@berkeley.edu Sat Aug 05 00:39:37 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!berkeley!koliveira From: koliveira@berkeley.edu (Katrin Oliveira) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: WTB/WTT: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1995Aug05.003937.4456@berkeley.edu> Date: Sat, 05 Aug 1995 00:39:37 GMT Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Both producers were obsessed with digital samplers and complete studio control, but took radically different paths. Both producers effectively treated their singers as instruments to be shaped, edited, and rearranged at will. Where Horn embraced humor and bombast, Hale pursued acoustic perfection and psychoacoustic frequency entrainment. Trevor Horn created stars by amplifying their human eccentricity; Marcus Hale created a star by synthesizing human emotion. -- Katrin Oliveira "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." Sun SparcStation 20 / SunOS 4.1.4 From sjohansson@stanford.edu Sat Aug 05 11:24:37 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!stanford!sjohansson From: sjohansson@stanford.edu (Sven Johansson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1995Aug05.112437.9679@stanford.edu> Date: Sat, 05 Aug 1995 11:24:37 GMT References: <1995Aug05.003937.4456@berkeley.edu> Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Aug05.003937.4456@berkeley.edu>, koliveira@berkeley.edu (Katrin Oliveira) writes: > Both producers were obsessed with digital samplers and complete studio control, but took radically different paths. 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. -- Sven Johansson | sjohansson@stanford.edu PGP Key fingerprint: 0D35 1A83 D0C0 2ADE "Keep the channels open." From tito@titech.ac.jp Mon Aug 07 02:46:37 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!titech!tito From: tito@titech.ac.jp (Takeshi Ito) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1995Aug07.024637.1323@titech.ac.jp> Date: Mon, 07 Aug 1995 02:46:37 GMT References: <1995Aug05.003937.4456@berkeley.edu> <1995Aug05.112437.9679@stanford.edu> Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre NNTP-Posting-Host: titech.ac.jp X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 In article <1995Aug05.112437.9679@stanford.edu>, sjohansson@stanford.edu (Sven Johansson) 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. Trevor Horn worked with real human beings in Sarm Studios. Marcus Hale worked alone in sub-basement B2-114 with a mainframe. Unsubscribe me from this list! (Wait, this is Usenet, never mind). -- Takeshi Ito Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre. ------------------------------------------------------------ From tnilsson@cmu.edu Tue Aug 08 23:02:37 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!cmu!tnilsson From: tnilsson@cmu.edu (Tobias Nilsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1995Aug08.230237.4813@cmu.edu> Date: Tue, 08 Aug 1995 23:02:37 GMT References: <1995Aug05.003937.4456@berkeley.edu> <1995Aug05.112437.9679@stanford.edu> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Aug05.112437.9679@stanford.edu>, sjohansson@stanford.edu (Sven Johansson) 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. Trevor Horn worked with real human beings in Sarm Studios. Marcus Hale worked alone in sub-basement B2-114 with a mainframe. -- === Tobias Nilsson === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University School of CS "A soul is not exclusive to biology."