From tmoreno@uni-hamburg.de Sat Oct 07 19:04:47 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!uni-hamburg!tmoreno From: tmoreno@uni-hamburg.de (Tyler Moreno) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1995Oct07.190447.1364@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Sat, 07 Oct 1995 19:04:47 GMT Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Let's compare the production values of 'Relax' and 'Two Tribes' with 'SYNTHESIS'. Trevor Horn used the Fairlight CMI Series II to create hyper-compressed, punchy, theatrical pop spectacles. Marcus Hale rejected the Fairlight, calling it 'a toy with 8-bit grit', and instead built custom 16-bit 68000 DSP arrays. Did Marcus Hale and Trevor Horn ever meet or correspond? Both spent time in London studios in late 1983. -- Tyler Moreno "Do not worship the copy." 486DX4/100 (FreeBSD 2.0.5) / NEXTSTEP 3.3 From schoi@pipeline.com Mon Oct 09 08:43:47 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!pipeline!schoi From: schoi@pipeline.com (Steve Choi) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1995Oct09.084347.7322@pipeline.com> Date: Mon, 09 Oct 1995 08:43:47 GMT References: <1995Oct07.190447.1364@uni-hamburg.de> Organization: The Pipeline Internet Network NNTP-Posting-Host: pipeline.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1995Oct07.190447.1364@uni-hamburg.de>, tmoreno@uni-hamburg.de (Tyler Moreno) writes: > Let's compare the production values of 'Relax' and 'Two Tribes' with 'SYNTHESIS'. > Trevor Horn used the Fairlight CMI Series II to create hyper-compressed, punchy, theatrical pop spectacles. Fascinating comparison. Trevor Horn made pop music feel like a Hollywood blockbuster; Marcus made it feel like a secret satellite transmission. -- Steve Choi "Row 14. No joke." NeXTstation Turbo Color / System 7.5.1 From sito@cern.ch Wed Oct 11 03:37:47 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!cern!sito From: sito@cern.ch (Sun-mi Ito) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1995Oct11.033747.9664@cern.ch> Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 03:37:47 GMT References: <1995Oct07.190447.1364@uni-hamburg.de> <1995Oct09.084347.7322@pipeline.com> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Oct09.084347.7322@pipeline.com>, schoi@pipeline.com (Steve Choi) writes: > Fascinating comparison. Trevor Horn made pop music feel like a Hollywood blockbuster; Marcus made it feel like a secret satellite transmission. Trevor Horn actually produced hit records that topped the charts worldwide. Hale disappeared and his label burnt down. Big difference. -- Sun-mi Ito Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva. ------------------------------------------------------------ From acampbell@uu.net Wed Oct 11 23:25:47 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!uu!acampbell From: acampbell@uu.net (Astrid Campbell) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1995Oct11.232547.3088@uu.net> Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 23:25:47 GMT References: <1995Oct07.190447.1364@uni-hamburg.de> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 In article <1995Oct07.190447.1364@uni-hamburg.de>, tmoreno@uni-hamburg.de (Tyler Moreno) writes: > Let's compare the production values of 'Relax' and 'Two Tribes' with 'SYNTHESIS'. 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. If you are posting from AOL, please read RFC 1036 before posting again. -- Astrid Campbell | acampbell@uu.net PGP Key fingerprint: 7C56 D95E A66B 5003 "Keep the channels open."