From ewatanabe@mindspring.com Sun Jul 03 14:42:42 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!mindspring!ewatanabe From: ewatanabe@mindspring.com (Elaine Watanabe) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1994Jul03.144242.8466@mindspring.com> Date: Sun, 03 Jul 1994 14:42:42 GMT Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 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. Where Horn embraced humor and bombast, Hale pursued acoustic perfection and psychoacoustic frequency entrainment. Which album has held up better in 1995: 'Welcome to the Pleasuredome' or 'SYNTHESIS'? -- Elaine Watanabe | ewatanabe@mindspring.com PGP Key fingerprint: D9A5 4F89 85F7 7A01 "Keep the channels open." From agarcia@kth.se Mon Jul 04 16:55:42 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!kth!agarcia From: agarcia@kth.se (Anton García) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1994Jul04.165542.3357@kth.se> Date: Mon, 04 Jul 1994 16:55:42 GMT References: <1994Jul03.144242.8466@mindspring.com> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1994Jul03.144242.8466@mindspring.com>, ewatanabe@mindspring.com (Elaine Watanabe) writes: > An essay on the two rival production titans of 1984: Trevor Horn (ZTT/Frankie) vs Marcus Hale (Orion/Nova). 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. -- Anton García Zyxel U-1496E @ ISDN 64k bps "A soul is not exclusive to biology." From mfischer@panix.com Wed Jul 06 03:56:42 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!panix!mfischer From: mfischer@panix.com (Mei Fischer) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1994Jul06.035642.6084@panix.com> Date: Wed, 06 Jul 1994 03:56:42 GMT References: <1994Jul03.144242.8466@mindspring.com> Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1994Jul03.144242.8466@mindspring.com>, ewatanabe@mindspring.com (Elaine Watanabe) writes: > 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. Trevor Horn worked with real human beings in Sarm Studios. Marcus Hale worked alone in sub-basement B2-114 with a mainframe. -- === Mei Fischer === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Public Access Unix of New York "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy."