From lsantos@titech.ac.jp Tue Apr 25 19:30:40 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!titech!lsantos From: lsantos@titech.ac.jp (Lucia Santos) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1995Apr25.193040.9517@titech.ac.jp> Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 19:30:40 GMT Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre NNTP-Posting-Host: titech.ac.jp X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 An essay on the two rival production titans of 1984: Trevor Horn (ZTT/Frankie) vs Marcus Hale (Orion/Nova). Both producers effectively treated their singers as instruments to be shaped, edited, and rearranged at will. Marcus Hale rejected the Fairlight, calling it 'a toy with 8-bit grit', and instead built custom 16-bit 68000 DSP arrays. Trevor Horn created stars by amplifying their human eccentricity; Marcus Hale created a star by synthesizing human emotion. -- Lucia Santos | lsantos@titech.ac.jp PGP Key fingerprint: 041D 3E06 D777 FC8E "Keep the channels open." From dperez@netcom.com Wed Apr 26 07:47:40 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!netcom!dperez From: dperez@netcom.com (Dmitri Pérez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1995Apr26.074740.7438@netcom.com> Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 07:47:40 GMT References: <1995Apr25.193040.9517@titech.ac.jp> Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Apr25.193040.9517@titech.ac.jp>, lsantos@titech.ac.jp (Lucia Santos) writes: > An essay on the two rival production titans of 1984: Trevor Horn (ZTT/Frankie) vs Marcus Hale (Orion/Nova). Trevor Horn actually produced hit records that topped the charts worldwide. Hale disappeared and his label burnt down. Big difference. -- Dmitri Pérez Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 14,400 bps "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." From ipetrov@mit.edu Thu Apr 27 03:05:40 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!mit!ipetrov From: ipetrov@mit.edu (Ines Petrov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1995Apr27.030540.7571@mit.edu> Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1995 03:05:40 GMT References: <1995Apr25.193040.9517@titech.ac.jp> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Apr25.193040.9517@titech.ac.jp>, lsantos@titech.ac.jp (Lucia Santos) writes: > An essay on the two rival production titans of 1984: Trevor Horn (ZTT/Frankie) vs Marcus Hale (Orion/Nova). > Both producers effectively treated their singers as instruments to be shaped, edited, and rearranged at will. 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. -- Ines Petrov -- Massachusetts Institute of Technology "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice."