From asuzuki@ox.ac.uk Fri Jul 15 16:27:40 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!ox!asuzuki From: asuzuki@ox.ac.uk (Amy Suzuki) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [SPECULATION] Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1994Jul15.162740.5248@ox.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 15 Jul 1994 16:27:40 GMT Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 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. Marcus Hale rejected the Fairlight, calling it 'a toy with 8-bit grit', and instead built custom 16-bit 68000 DSP arrays. Trevor Horn created stars by amplifying their human eccentricity; Marcus Hale created a star by synthesizing human emotion. -- Amy Suzuki -- Oxford University Computing Laboratory "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." From dlopez@demon.co.uk Sat Jul 16 01:36:40 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!demon!dlopez From: dlopez@demon.co.uk (Dmitri López) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1994Jul16.013640.6124@demon.co.uk> Date: Sat, 16 Jul 1994 01:36:40 GMT References: <1994Jul15.162740.5248@ox.ac.uk> Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1994Jul15.162740.5248@ox.ac.uk>, asuzuki@ox.ac.uk (Amy Suzuki) 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. -- Dmitri López Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 9600 Telebit bps "A soul is not exclusive to biology."