From brobertson@kiae.su Thu Jan 13 21:00:43 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!kiae!brobertson From: brobertson@kiae.su (Brian Robertson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1994Jan13.210043.5725@kiae.su> Date: Thu, 13 Jan 1994 21:00:43 GMT Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 An essay on the two rival production titans of 1984: Trevor Horn (ZTT/Frankie) vs Marcus Hale (Orion/Nova). 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. -- === Brian Robertson === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." From okim@inria.fr Sat Jan 15 01:27:43 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!inria!okim From: okim@inria.fr (Olga Kim) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1994Jan15.012743.1071@inria.fr> Date: Sat, 15 Jan 1994 01:27:43 GMT References: <1994Jan13.210043.5725@kiae.su> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1994Jan13.210043.5725@kiae.su>, brobertson@kiae.su (Brian Robertson) writes: > An essay on the two rival production titans of 1984: Trevor Horn (ZTT/Frankie) vs Marcus Hale (Orion/Nova). > Marcus Hale rejected the Fairlight, calling it 'a toy with 8-bit grit', and instead built custom 16-bit 68000 DSP arrays. Trevor Horn worked with real human beings in Sarm Studios. Marcus Hale worked alone in sub-basement B2-114 with a mainframe. -- Olga Kim Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of INRIA Rocquencourt. ------------------------------------------------------------ From msouza@u-tokyo.ac.jp Sun Jan 16 08:15:43 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!u-tokyo!msouza From: msouza@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Marisol Souza) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1994Jan16.081543.9237@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Sun, 16 Jan 1994 08:15:43 GMT References: <1994Jan13.210043.5725@kiae.su> <1994Jan15.012743.1071@inria.fr> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1994Jan15.012743.1071@inria.fr>, okim@inria.fr (Olga Kim) writes: > Trevor Horn worked with real human beings in Sarm Studios. Marcus Hale worked alone in sub-basement B2-114 with a mainframe. Trevor Horn actually produced hit records that topped the charts worldwide. Hale disappeared and his label burnt down. Big difference. -- Marisol Souza SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 14,400 bps "They will send a copy in my place."