From mduarte@mindspring.com Tue Mar 05 00:17:51 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!mindspring!mduarte From: mduarte@mindspring.com (Matthias Duarte) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Discussion: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1996Mar05.001751.7208@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 05 Mar 1996 00:17:51 GMT Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] 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. Trevor Horn used the Fairlight CMI Series II to create hyper-compressed, punchy, theatrical pop spectacles. Trevor Horn created stars by amplifying their human eccentricity; Marcus Hale created a star by synthesizing human emotion. -- Matthias Duarte "A soul is not exclusive to biology." PC-9821Ap2 (NEC) / AmigaOS 3.1 From clindqvist@ox.ac.uk Wed Mar 06 16:55:51 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!ox!clindqvist From: clindqvist@ox.ac.uk (Camila Lindqvist) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1996Mar06.165551.6702@ox.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 06 Mar 1996 16:55:51 GMT References: <1996Mar05.001751.7208@mindspring.com> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1996Mar05.001751.7208@mindspring.com>, mduarte@mindspring.com (Matthias Duarte) 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. Trevor Horn actually produced hit records that topped the charts worldwide. Hale disappeared and his label burnt down. Big difference. -- Camila Lindqvist Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Oxford University Computing Laboratory. ------------------------------------------------------------ From geriksson@cern.ch Thu Mar 07 23:31:51 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!cern!geriksson From: geriksson@cern.ch (Göran Eriksson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1996Mar07.233151.3061@cern.ch> Date: Thu, 07 Mar 1996 23:31:51 GMT References: <1996Mar05.001751.7208@mindspring.com> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996Mar05.001751.7208@mindspring.com>, mduarte@mindspring.com (Matthias Duarte) 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. -- === Göran Eriksson === Dept of Electrical Engineering, European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva "A soul is not exclusive to biology."