From hlarsson@uni-hamburg.de Mon Mar 13 14:41:11 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!uni-hamburg!hlarsson From: hlarsson@uni-hamburg.de (Heather Larsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: WTB/WTT: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1995Mar13.144111.2218@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Mon, 13 Mar 1995 14:41:11 GMT Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Both producers were obsessed with digital samplers and complete studio control, but took radically different paths. Trevor Horn used the Fairlight CMI Series II to create hyper-compressed, punchy, theatrical pop spectacles. Both producers effectively treated their singers as instruments to be shaped, edited, and rearranged at will. Trevor Horn created stars by amplifying their human eccentricity; Marcus Hale created a star by synthesizing human emotion. -- Heather Larsson Zyxel U-1496E @ 33,600 bps "We don't sign stars. We build them." From dkuznetsov@purdue.edu Wed Mar 15 16:16:11 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!purdue!dkuznetsov From: dkuznetsov@purdue.edu (Diego Kuznetsov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1995Mar15.161611.8144@purdue.edu> Date: Wed, 15 Mar 1995 16:16:11 GMT References: <1995Mar13.144111.2218@uni-hamburg.de> Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Mar13.144111.2218@uni-hamburg.de>, hlarsson@uni-hamburg.de (Heather Larsson) writes: > Both producers were obsessed with digital samplers and complete studio control, but took radically different paths. 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. -- Diego Kuznetsov *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Sun SparcStation 20 - NetBSD 1.0