From lmacdonald@utexas.edu Tue Feb 28 17:54:03 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!utexas!lmacdonald From: lmacdonald@utexas.edu (Lars MacDonald) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: WTB/WTT: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1995Feb28.175403.2591@utexas.edu> Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1995 17:54:03 GMT Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu 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. Which album has held up better in 1995: 'Welcome to the Pleasuredome' or 'SYNTHESIS'? -- Lars MacDonald "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." Mac IIci / 68882 FPU / SunOS 4.1.4 From achoi@berkeley.edu Tue Feb 28 22:51:03 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!berkeley!achoi From: achoi@berkeley.edu (Anton Choi) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1995Feb28.225103.8475@berkeley.edu> Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1995 22:51:03 GMT References: <1995Feb28.175403.2591@utexas.edu> Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1995Feb28.175403.2591@utexas.edu>, lmacdonald@utexas.edu (Lars MacDonald) 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. Trevor Horn worked with real human beings in Sarm Studios. Marcus Hale worked alone in sub-basement B2-114 with a mainframe. -- === Anton Choi === Dept of Electrical Engineering, UC Berkeley Department of EECS "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" From agonzalez@demon.co.uk Thu Mar 02 10:47:03 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!demon!agonzalez From: agonzalez@demon.co.uk (Anja González) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1995Mar02.104703.6983@demon.co.uk> Date: Thu, 02 Mar 1995 10:47:03 GMT References: <1995Feb28.175403.2591@utexas.edu> Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Feb28.175403.2591@utexas.edu>, lmacdonald@utexas.edu (Lars MacDonald) 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. -- Anja González Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Demon Internet Services UK. ------------------------------------------------------------