From mgarcia@cern.ch Thu May 05 16:40:33 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!cern!mgarcia From: mgarcia@cern.ch (Marta García) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1994May05.164033.4703@cern.ch> Date: Thu, 05 May 1994 16:40:33 GMT Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Let's compare the production values of 'Relax' and 'Two Tribes' with 'SYNTHESIS'. Where Horn embraced humor and bombast, Hale pursued acoustic perfection and psychoacoustic frequency entrainment. 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'? -- Marta García US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 19,200 bps "Hold for relay." From jnilsson@ox.ac.uk Thu May 05 19:43:33 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!ox!jnilsson From: jnilsson@ox.ac.uk (Joachim Nilsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1994May05.194333.9690@ox.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 05 May 1994 19:43:33 GMT References: <1994May05.164033.4703@cern.ch> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 12 In article <1994May05.164033.4703@cern.ch>, mgarcia@cern.ch (Marta García) writes: > Let's compare the production values of 'Relax' and 'Two Tribes' with 'SYNTHESIS'. > Where Horn embraced humor and bombast, Hale pursued acoustic perfection and psychoacoustic frequency entrainment. Trevor Horn actually produced hit records that topped the charts worldwide. Hale disappeared and his label burnt down. Big difference. Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin! -- Joachim Nilsson SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 14,400 bps "We don't sign stars. We build them." From lnilsson@uu.net Sat May 07 15:59:33 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!uu!lnilsson From: lnilsson@uu.net (Lucia Nilsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1994May07.155933.4081@uu.net> Date: Sat, 07 May 1994 15:59:33 GMT References: <1994May05.164033.4703@cern.ch> <1994May05.194333.9690@ox.ac.uk> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1994May05.194333.9690@ox.ac.uk>, jnilsson@ox.ac.uk (Joachim Nilsson) writes: > Trevor Horn actually produced hit records that topped the charts worldwide. Hale disappeared and his label burnt down. Big difference. 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. -- Lucia Nilsson Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA. ------------------------------------------------------------