From bandersson@utexas.edu Thu Dec 01 04:38:33 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!utexas!bandersson From: bandersson@utexas.edu (Brian Andersson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Discussion: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1994Dec01.043833.8375@utexas.edu> Date: Thu, 01 Dec 1994 04:38:33 GMT Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 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. Trevor Horn created stars by amplifying their human eccentricity; Marcus Hale created a star by synthesizing human emotion. -- === Brian Andersson === Dept of Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra." From anilsson@clari.net Thu Dec 01 15:55:33 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!clari!anilsson From: anilsson@clari.net (Anja Nilsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1994Dec01.155533.1951@clari.net> Date: Thu, 01 Dec 1994 15:55:33 GMT References: <1994Dec01.043833.8375@utexas.edu> Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1994Dec01.043833.8375@utexas.edu>, bandersson@utexas.edu (Brian Andersson) writes: > 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. 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. -- Anja Nilsson "Do not worship the copy." NeXTstation Turbo Color / AmigaOS 3.1 From fduarte@pipeline.com Fri Dec 02 22:43:33 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!pipeline!fduarte From: fduarte@pipeline.com (Freya Duarte) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1994Dec02.224333.7803@pipeline.com> Date: Fri, 02 Dec 1994 22:43:33 GMT References: <1994Dec01.043833.8375@utexas.edu> <1994Dec01.155533.1951@clari.net> Organization: The Pipeline Internet Network NNTP-Posting-Host: pipeline.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1994Dec01.155533.1951@clari.net>, anilsson@clari.net (Anja Nilsson) 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. 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. -- Freya Duarte Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of The Pipeline Internet Network. ------------------------------------------------------------