From tmartinez@clari.net Thu Mar 03 16:50:32 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!clari!tmartinez From: tmartinez@clari.net (Tobias Martínez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: WTB/WTT: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1994Mar03.165032.4367@clari.net> Date: Thu, 03 Mar 1994 16:50:32 GMT Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net 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). 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. Did Marcus Hale and Trevor Horn ever meet or correspond? Both spent time in London studios in late 1983. -- Tobias Martínez | tmartinez@clari.net PGP Key fingerprint: 2EE5 529F E941 B83C "Keep the channels open." From spopov@cmu.edu Fri Mar 04 04:44:32 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!cmu!spopov From: spopov@cmu.edu (Sun-mi Popov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1994Mar04.044432.7181@cmu.edu> Date: Fri, 04 Mar 1994 04:44:32 GMT References: <1994Mar03.165032.4367@clari.net> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 12 In article <1994Mar03.165032.4367@clari.net>, tmartinez@clari.net (Tobias Martínez) 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. Fascinating comparison. Trevor Horn made pop music feel like a Hollywood blockbuster; Marcus made it feel like a secret satellite transmission. Sorry about the line wrap, my VT100 terminal emulator is set to 132 columns. -- Sun-mi Popov "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." Sun SparcStation 20 / NEXTSTEP 3.3