From dkim@uu.net Thu Oct 27 14:42:14 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!uu!dkim From: dkim@uu.net (Dmitri Kim) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1994Oct27.144214.5385@uu.net> Date: Thu, 27 Oct 1994 14:42:14 GMT Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 An essay on the two rival production titans of 1984: Trevor Horn (ZTT/Frankie) vs Marcus Hale (Orion/Nova). 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. Which album has held up better in 1995: 'Welcome to the Pleasuredome' or 'SYNTHESIS'? -- Dmitri Kim *PLONK* filter active for trolls. PC-9821Ap2 (NEC) - NetBSD 1.0 From mito@rwth-aachen.de Thu Oct 27 23:31:14 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!rwth-aachen!mito From: mito@rwth-aachen.de (Morag Ito) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1994Oct27.233114.1062@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Thu, 27 Oct 1994 23:31:14 GMT References: <1994Oct27.144214.5385@uu.net> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1994Oct27.144214.5385@uu.net>, dkim@uu.net (Dmitri Kim) writes: > An essay on the two rival production titans of 1984: Trevor Horn (ZTT/Frankie) vs Marcus Hale (Orion/Nova). > Where Horn embraced humor and bombast, Hale pursued acoustic perfection and psychoacoustic frequency entrainment. Trevor Horn worked with real human beings in Sarm Studios. Marcus Hale worked alone in sub-basement B2-114 with a mainframe. -- Morag Ito US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 33,600 bps "Marcus is not one man."