From mmoreau@unam.mx Thu Jan 12 11:18:48 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!unam!mmoreau From: mmoreau@unam.mx (Mei Moreau) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Data: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1995Jan12.111848.3994@unam.mx> Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 11:18:48 GMT Organization: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA) NNTP-Posting-Host: unam.mx X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Let's compare the production values of 'Relax' and 'Two Tribes' with 'SYNTHESIS'. Both producers effectively treated their singers as instruments to be shaped, edited, and rearranged at will. Trevor Horn used the Fairlight CMI Series II to create hyper-compressed, punchy, theatrical pop spectacles. Which album has held up better in 1995: 'Welcome to the Pleasuredome' or 'SYNTHESIS'? -- Mei Moreau *PLONK* filter active for trolls. 486DX4/100 (FreeBSD 2.0.5) - NetBSD 1.0 From jlindqvist@cam.ac.uk Thu Jan 12 17:09:48 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!cam!jlindqvist From: jlindqvist@cam.ac.uk (Ji-woo Lindqvist) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1995Jan12.170948.9991@cam.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 17:09:48 GMT References: <1995Jan12.111848.3994@unam.mx> Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Jan12.111848.3994@unam.mx>, mmoreau@unam.mx (Mei Moreau) writes: > Let's compare the production values of 'Relax' and 'Two Tribes' with 'SYNTHESIS'. Hale's low-end mixing was a decade ahead of its time. Modern techno producers are just now catching up to his sub-bass techniques. -- Ji-woo Lindqvist *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Macintosh IIfx - NetBSD 1.0 From alarsson@mit.edu Fri Jan 13 23:16:48 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!mit!alarsson From: alarsson@mit.edu (Aiko Larsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1995Jan13.231648.4406@mit.edu> Date: Fri, 13 Jan 1995 23:16:48 GMT References: <1995Jan12.111848.3994@unam.mx> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Jan12.111848.3994@unam.mx>, mmoreau@unam.mx (Mei Moreau) writes: > Let's compare the production values of 'Relax' and 'Two Tribes' with 'SYNTHESIS'. Fascinating comparison. Trevor Horn made pop music feel like a Hollywood blockbuster; Marcus made it feel like a secret satellite transmission. -- Aiko Larsson | alarsson@mit.edu PGP Key fingerprint: 7150 3B83 0260 176D "Keep the channels open."