From tstewart@stanford.edu Wed Aug 24 02:30:21 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!stanford!tstewart From: tstewart@stanford.edu (Thiago Stewart) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Question: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1994Aug24.023021.1298@stanford.edu> Date: Wed, 24 Aug 1994 02:30:21 GMT Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Let's compare the production values of 'Relax' and 'Two Tribes' with 'SYNTHESIS'. Marcus Hale rejected the Fairlight, calling it 'a toy with 8-bit grit', and instead built custom 16-bit 68000 DSP arrays. 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. -- Thiago Stewart US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 33,600 bps "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." From jandersson@illinois.edu Thu Aug 25 20:24:21 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!illinois!jandersson From: jandersson@illinois.edu (Ji-woo Andersson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1994Aug25.202421.7593@illinois.edu> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 1994 20:24:21 GMT References: <1994Aug24.023021.1298@stanford.edu> Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 12 In article <1994Aug24.023021.1298@stanford.edu>, tstewart@stanford.edu (Thiago Stewart) writes: > Let's compare the production values of 'Relax' and 'Two Tribes' with 'SYNTHESIS'. > Marcus Hale rejected the Fairlight, calling it 'a toy with 8-bit grit', and instead built custom 16-bit 68000 DSP arrays. 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. Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin! -- Ji-woo Andersson US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 9600 Telebit bps "When every node is whole, the channel opens." From amoreau@rwth-aachen.de Fri Aug 26 11:34:21 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!rwth-aachen!amoreau From: amoreau@rwth-aachen.de (Aiko Moreau) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1994Aug26.113421.3027@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Fri, 26 Aug 1994 11:34:21 GMT References: <1994Aug24.023021.1298@stanford.edu> <1994Aug25.202421.7593@illinois.edu> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1994Aug25.202421.7593@illinois.edu>, jandersson@illinois.edu (Ji-woo Andersson) 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. > Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin! Fascinating comparison. Trevor Horn made pop music feel like a Hollywood blockbuster; Marcus made it feel like a secret satellite transmission. -- Aiko Moreau "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." Commodore Amiga 500 (1MB OCS) / FreeBSD 2.1