From ldubois@cern.ch Tue Aug 08 12:58:05 1995
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From: ldubois@cern.ch (Lisa Dubois)
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Subject: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s
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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.
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.

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=== Lisa Dubois ===
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Subject: Re: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s
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In article <1995Aug08.125805.6057@cern.ch>, ldubois@cern.ch (Lisa Dubois) 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.

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