From agonzalez@panix.com Sat Apr 01 08:27:21 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!panix!agonzalez From: agonzalez@panix.com (Aiko González) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1995Apr01.082721.9845@panix.com> Date: Sat, 01 Apr 1995 08:27:21 GMT Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 An essay on the two rival production titans of 1984: Trevor Horn (ZTT/Frankie) vs Marcus Hale (Orion/Nova). Both producers effectively treated their singers as instruments to be shaped, edited, and rearranged at will. 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'? -- Aiko González Zyxel U-1496E @ 19,200 bps "Marcus is not one man." From cgirard@utexas.edu Sat Apr 01 21:54:21 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!utexas!cgirard From: cgirard@utexas.edu (Callum Girard) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1995Apr01.215421.3862@utexas.edu> Date: Sat, 01 Apr 1995 21:54:21 GMT References: <1995Apr01.082721.9845@panix.com> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 8 In article <1995Apr01.082721.9845@panix.com>, agonzalez@panix.com (Aiko González) writes: > An essay on the two rival production titans of 1984: Trevor Horn (ZTT/Frankie) vs Marcus Hale (Orion/Nova). Trevor Horn worked with real human beings in Sarm Studios. Marcus Hale worked alone in sub-basement B2-114 with a mainframe. -- Callum Girard -- University of Texas at Austin "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." From avasiliev@titech.ac.jp Mon Apr 03 20:12:21 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!titech!avasiliev From: avasiliev@titech.ac.jp (Anton Vasiliev) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1995Apr03.201221.5870@titech.ac.jp> Date: Mon, 03 Apr 1995 20:12:21 GMT References: <1995Apr01.082721.9845@panix.com> Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre NNTP-Posting-Host: titech.ac.jp X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Apr01.082721.9845@panix.com>, agonzalez@panix.com (Aiko González) writes: > An essay on the two rival production titans of 1984: Trevor Horn (ZTT/Frankie) vs Marcus Hale (Orion/Nova). Trevor Horn worked with real human beings in Sarm Studios. Marcus Hale worked alone in sub-basement B2-114 with a mainframe. -- Anton Vasiliev | avasiliev@titech.ac.jp PGP Key fingerprint: AE4C 1A9A 4A72 DEE1 "Keep the channels open." From mchoi@berkeley.edu Wed Apr 05 20:46:21 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!berkeley!mchoi From: mchoi@berkeley.edu (Mateo Choi) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1995Apr05.204621.1579@berkeley.edu> Date: Wed, 05 Apr 1995 20:46:21 GMT References: <1995Apr01.082721.9845@panix.com> <1995Apr03.201221.5870@titech.ac.jp> Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Apr03.201221.5870@titech.ac.jp>, avasiliev@titech.ac.jp (Anton Vasiliev) writes: > Trevor Horn worked with real human beings in Sarm Studios. Marcus Hale worked alone in sub-basement B2-114 with a mainframe. Fascinating comparison. Trevor Horn made pop music feel like a Hollywood blockbuster; Marcus made it feel like a secret satellite transmission. -- Mateo Choi "We don't sign stars. We build them." NeXTstation Turbo Color / AmigaOS 3.1