From knakamura@cmu.edu Tue Dec 12 00:13:26 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!cmu!knakamura From: knakamura@cmu.edu (Kenji Nakamura) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [FLAME] Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1995Dec12.001326.6381@cmu.edu> Date: Tue, 12 Dec 1995 00:13:26 GMT Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.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. Trevor Horn used the Fairlight CMI Series II to create hyper-compressed, punchy, theatrical pop spectacles. Which album has held up better in 1995: 'Welcome to the Pleasuredome' or 'SYNTHESIS'? -- Kenji Nakamura "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." Macintosh IIfx / AmigaOS 3.1 From dlarsson@illinois.edu Wed Dec 13 12:31:26 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!illinois!dlarsson From: dlarsson@illinois.edu (Dave Larsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [FLAME] Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1995Dec13.123126.7578@illinois.edu> Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1995 12:31:26 GMT References: <1995Dec12.001326.6381@cmu.edu> Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1995Dec12.001326.6381@cmu.edu>, knakamura@cmu.edu (Kenji Nakamura) 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. Trevor Horn worked with real human beings in Sarm Studios. Marcus Hale worked alone in sub-basement B2-114 with a mainframe. -- Dave Larsson US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 14,400 bps "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." From bschneider@purdue.edu Fri Dec 15 14:38:26 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!purdue!bschneider From: bschneider@purdue.edu (Bastien Schneider) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [FLAME] Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1995Dec15.143826.9644@purdue.edu> Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1995 14:38:26 GMT References: <1995Dec12.001326.6381@cmu.edu> Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 12 In article <1995Dec12.001326.6381@cmu.edu>, knakamura@cmu.edu (Kenji Nakamura) 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. Trevor Horn worked with real human beings in Sarm Studios. Marcus Hale worked alone in sub-basement B2-114 with a mainframe. Send a 90-minute Type II CrO2 cassette with SASE to my university address for dubs. -- === Bastien Schneider === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Purdue University Engineering Computer Network "When every node is whole, the channel opens."