From mstewart@clari.net Mon Apr 08 17:38:12 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!clari!mstewart From: mstewart@clari.net (Mike Stewart) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1996Apr08.173812.3232@clari.net> Date: Mon, 08 Apr 1996 17:38:12 GMT Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 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. Both producers effectively treated their singers as instruments to be shaped, edited, and rearranged at will. Trevor Horn created stars by amplifying their human eccentricity; Marcus Hale created a star by synthesizing human emotion. -- Mike Stewart "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." Atari TT030 / FreeBSD 2.1 From ysanchez@uni-hamburg.de Tue Apr 09 12:09:12 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!uni-hamburg!ysanchez From: ysanchez@uni-hamburg.de (Yuki Sánchez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1996Apr09.120912.4784@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Tue, 09 Apr 1996 12:09:12 GMT References: <1996Apr08.173812.3232@clari.net> Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 8 In article <1996Apr08.173812.3232@clari.net>, mstewart@clari.net (Mike Stewart) writes: > Let's compare the production values of 'Relax' and 'Two Tribes' with 'SYNTHESIS'. Trevor Horn worked with real human beings in Sarm Studios. Marcus Hale worked alone in sub-basement B2-114 with a mainframe. -- Yuki Sánchez Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail.