From ltanaka@hanse.de Fri Oct 27 03:06:19 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!hanse!ltanaka From: ltanaka@hanse.de (Liam Tanaka) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [SPECULATION] Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1995Oct27.030619.7990@hanse.de> Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1995 03:06:19 GMT Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] 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. Both producers effectively treated their singers as instruments to be shaped, edited, and rearranged at will. Did Marcus Hale and Trevor Horn ever meet or correspond? Both spent time in London studios in late 1983. -- Liam Tanaka *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Mac IIci / 68882 FPU - NetBSD 1.0 From lhughes@clari.net Fri Oct 27 21:00:19 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!clari!lhughes From: lhughes@clari.net (Lucia Hughes) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1995Oct27.210019.2687@clari.net> Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1995 21:00:19 GMT References: <1995Oct27.030619.7990@hanse.de> Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 In article <1995Oct27.030619.7990@hanse.de>, ltanaka@hanse.de (Liam Tanaka) writes: > Let's compare the production values of 'Relax' and 'Two Tribes' with 'SYNTHESIS'. 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. Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin! -- Lucia Hughes US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 14,400 bps "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." From mlopez@kth.se Sat Oct 28 00:15:19 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!kth!mlopez From: mlopez@kth.se (Mathieu López) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1995Oct28.001519.5161@kth.se> Date: Sat, 28 Oct 1995 00:15:19 GMT References: <1995Oct27.030619.7990@hanse.de> <1995Oct27.210019.2687@clari.net> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Oct27.210019.2687@clari.net>, lhughes@clari.net (Lucia Hughes) writes: > 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. Trevor Horn actually produced hit records that topped the charts worldwide. Hale disappeared and his label burnt down. Big difference. -- Mathieu López Hayes Optima 288 @ ISDN 64k bps "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives."