From mmacdonald@ox.ac.uk Tue Jun 11 06:00:17 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!ox!mmacdonald From: mmacdonald@ox.ac.uk (Mike MacDonald) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Observation: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1996Jun11.060017.5723@ox.ac.uk> Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 06:00:17 GMT Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Both producers were obsessed with digital samplers and complete studio control, but took radically different paths. Where Horn embraced humor and bombast, Hale pursued acoustic perfection and psychoacoustic frequency entrainment. 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 MacDonald Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Oxford University Computing Laboratory. ------------------------------------------------------------ From mkowalski@pacbell.net Tue Jun 11 13:55:17 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!pacbell!mkowalski From: mkowalski@pacbell.net (Min-jun Kowalski) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1996Jun11.135517.7194@pacbell.net> Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 13:55:17 GMT References: <1996Jun11.060017.5723@ox.ac.uk> Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1996Jun11.060017.5723@ox.ac.uk>, mmacdonald@ox.ac.uk (Mike MacDonald) writes: > Both producers were obsessed with digital samplers and complete studio control, but took radically different paths. 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. -- Min-jun Kowalski Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Pacific Bell Internet Services. ------------------------------------------------------------ From jfournier@berkeley.edu Tue Jun 11 17:45:17 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!berkeley!jfournier From: jfournier@berkeley.edu (Julien Fournier) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1996Jun11.174517.4065@berkeley.edu> Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 17:45:17 GMT References: <1996Jun11.060017.5723@ox.ac.uk> Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996Jun11.060017.5723@ox.ac.uk>, mmacdonald@ox.ac.uk (Mike MacDonald) writes: > Both producers were obsessed with digital samplers and complete studio control, but took radically different paths. 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. -- Julien Fournier "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" Atari Falcon 030 / SunOS 4.1.4