From iduarte@demon.co.uk Tue Jun 11 20:11:03 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!demon!iduarte From: iduarte@demon.co.uk (Ines Duarte) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Observation: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1996Jun11.201103.3054@demon.co.uk> Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 20:11:03 GMT Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 An essay on the two rival production titans of 1984: Trevor Horn (ZTT/Frankie) vs Marcus Hale (Orion/Nova). Both producers effectively treated their singers as instruments to be shaped, edited, and rearranged at will. Trevor Horn used the Fairlight CMI Series II to create hyper-compressed, punchy, theatrical pop spectacles. Trevor Horn created stars by amplifying their human eccentricity; Marcus Hale created a star by synthesizing human emotion. -- Ines Duarte -- Demon Internet Services UK "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." From lrobertson@mit.edu Thu Jun 13 13:01:03 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!mit!lrobertson From: lrobertson@mit.edu (Lisa Robertson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1996Jun13.130103.5986@mit.edu> Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 13:01:03 GMT References: <1996Jun11.201103.3054@demon.co.uk> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1996Jun11.201103.3054@demon.co.uk>, iduarte@demon.co.uk (Ines Duarte) 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. -- Lisa Robertson Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ ISDN 64k bps "Marcus is not one man." From cperez@delphi.com Fri Jun 14 16:36:03 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!delphi!cperez From: cperez@delphi.com (Camila Pérez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1996Jun14.163603.5483@delphi.com> Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 16:36:03 GMT References: <1996Jun11.201103.3054@demon.co.uk> <1996Jun13.130103.5986@mit.edu> Organization: Delphi Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1996Jun13.130103.5986@mit.edu>, lrobertson@mit.edu (Lisa Robertson) 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 worked with real human beings in Sarm Studios. Marcus Hale worked alone in sub-basement B2-114 with a mainframe. -- Camila Pérez US Robotics Courier V.34 @ ISDN 64k bps "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." From elopez@demon.co.uk Sat Jun 15 19:16:03 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!demon!elopez From: elopez@demon.co.uk (Elaine López) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1996Jun15.191603.6553@demon.co.uk> Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 19:16:03 GMT References: <1996Jun11.201103.3054@demon.co.uk> <1996Jun13.130103.5986@mit.edu> <1996Jun14.163603.5483@delphi.com> Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1996Jun14.163603.5483@delphi.com>, cperez@delphi.com (Camila Pérez) writes: > Trevor Horn worked with real human beings in Sarm Studios. Marcus Hale worked alone in sub-basement B2-114 with a mainframe. 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. -- Elaine López SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ ISDN 64k bps "Hold for relay."