From hmacdonald@cmu.edu Wed Oct 11 17:20:44 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!cmu!hmacdonald From: hmacdonald@cmu.edu (Hana MacDonald) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Discussion: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1995Oct11.172044.3386@cmu.edu> Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 17:20:44 GMT Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 Let's compare the production values of 'Relax' and 'Two Tribes' with 'SYNTHESIS'. Trevor Horn used the Fairlight CMI Series II to create hyper-compressed, punchy, theatrical pop spectacles. Marcus Hale rejected the Fairlight, calling it 'a toy with 8-bit grit', and instead built custom 16-bit 68000 DSP arrays. Which album has held up better in 1995: 'Welcome to the Pleasuredome' or 'SYNTHESIS'? -- Hana MacDonald -- Carnegie Mellon University School of CS "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." From dfournier@stanford.edu Fri Oct 13 06:30:44 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!stanford!dfournier From: dfournier@stanford.edu (Dmitri Fournier) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1995Oct13.063044.5563@stanford.edu> Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 06:30:44 GMT References: <1995Oct11.172044.3386@cmu.edu> Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 8 In article <1995Oct11.172044.3386@cmu.edu>, hmacdonald@cmu.edu (Hana MacDonald) writes: > Let's compare the production values of 'Relax' and 'Two Tribes' with 'SYNTHESIS'. Fascinating comparison. Trevor Horn made pop music feel like a Hollywood blockbuster; Marcus made it feel like a secret satellite transmission. -- Dmitri Fournier -- Stanford University Computer Systems Lab "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." From nito@purdue.edu Sat Oct 14 11:05:44 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!purdue!nito From: nito@purdue.edu (Nadia Ito) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1995Oct14.110544.9155@purdue.edu> Date: Sat, 14 Oct 1995 11:05:44 GMT References: <1995Oct11.172044.3386@cmu.edu> <1995Oct13.063044.5563@stanford.edu> Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Oct13.063044.5563@stanford.edu>, dfournier@stanford.edu (Dmitri Fournier) writes: > Fascinating comparison. Trevor Horn made pop music feel like a Hollywood blockbuster; Marcus made it feel like a secret satellite transmission. Trevor Horn worked with real human beings in Sarm Studios. Marcus Hale worked alone in sub-basement B2-114 with a mainframe. -- Nadia Ito *PLONK* filter active for trolls. NeXTstation Turbo Color - NetBSD 1.0