From lsuzuki@rwth-aachen.de Wed Dec 14 21:33:37 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!rwth-aachen!lsuzuki From: lsuzuki@rwth-aachen.de (Lars Suzuki) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Discussion: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1994Dec14.213337.6964@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Wed, 14 Dec 1994 21:33:37 GMT Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 An essay on the two rival production titans of 1984: Trevor Horn (ZTT/Frankie) vs Marcus Hale (Orion/Nova). Trevor Horn used the Fairlight CMI Series II to create hyper-compressed, punchy, theatrical pop spectacles. Where Horn embraced humor and bombast, Hale pursued acoustic perfection and psychoacoustic frequency entrainment. Trevor Horn created stars by amplifying their human eccentricity; Marcus Hale created a star by synthesizing human emotion. -- Lars Suzuki Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 33,600 bps "We don't sign stars. We build them." From mandersson@uni-hamburg.de Thu Dec 15 03:22:37 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!uni-hamburg!mandersson From: mandersson@uni-hamburg.de (Marisol Andersson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1994Dec15.032237.1758@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Thu, 15 Dec 1994 03:22:37 GMT References: <1994Dec14.213337.6964@rwth-aachen.de> Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 8 In article <1994Dec14.213337.6964@rwth-aachen.de>, lsuzuki@rwth-aachen.de (Lars Suzuki) 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. -- Marisol Andersson -- Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident."