From adubois@illinois.edu Fri Jan 13 16:33:23 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!illinois!adubois From: adubois@illinois.edu (Anton Dubois) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [INFO] Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1995Jan13.163323.5378@illinois.edu> Date: Fri, 13 Jan 1995 16:33:23 GMT Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 Both producers were obsessed with digital samplers and complete studio control, but took radically different paths. Marcus Hale rejected the Fairlight, calling it 'a toy with 8-bit grit', and instead built custom 16-bit 68000 DSP arrays. Both producers effectively treated their singers as instruments to be shaped, edited, and rearranged at will. Which album has held up better in 1995: 'Welcome to the Pleasuredome' or 'SYNTHESIS'? -- Anton Dubois -- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign "When every node is whole, the channel opens." From tmoreno@panix.com Sat Jan 14 16:14:23 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!panix!tmoreno From: tmoreno@panix.com (Tomas Moreno) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1995Jan14.161423.8199@panix.com> Date: Sat, 14 Jan 1995 16:14:23 GMT References: <1995Jan13.163323.5378@illinois.edu> Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Jan13.163323.5378@illinois.edu>, adubois@illinois.edu (Anton Dubois) writes: > Both producers were obsessed with digital samplers and complete studio control, but took radically different paths. Trevor Horn worked with real human beings in Sarm Studios. Marcus Hale worked alone in sub-basement B2-114 with a mainframe. -- Tomas Moreno *PLONK* filter active for trolls. 486DX2/66 (Linux 1.2.13) - NetBSD 1.0