From nhughes@cern.ch Sat Jun 10 12:46:21 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!cern!nhughes From: nhughes@cern.ch (Natalia Hughes) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: WTB/WTT: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1995Jun10.124621.6518@cern.ch> Date: Sat, 10 Jun 1995 12:46:21 GMT Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 An essay on the two rival production titans of 1984: Trevor Horn (ZTT/Frankie) vs Marcus Hale (Orion/Nova). Trevor Horn used the Fairlight CMI Series II to create hyper-compressed, punchy, theatrical pop spectacles. Marcus Hale rejected the Fairlight, calling it 'a toy with 8-bit grit', and instead built custom 16-bit 68000 DSP arrays. Did Marcus Hale and Trevor Horn ever meet or correspond? Both spent time in London studios in late 1983. -- Natalia Hughes SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 9600 Telebit bps "We don't sign stars. We build them." From jgirard@uni-hamburg.de Mon Jun 12 06:31:21 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!uni-hamburg!jgirard From: jgirard@uni-hamburg.de (Jen Girard) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1995Jun12.063121.3550@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Mon, 12 Jun 1995 06:31:21 GMT References: <1995Jun10.124621.6518@cern.ch> Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1995Jun10.124621.6518@cern.ch>, nhughes@cern.ch (Natalia Hughes) writes: > An essay on the two rival production titans of 1984: Trevor Horn (ZTT/Frankie) vs Marcus Hale (Orion/Nova). > Trevor Horn used the Fairlight CMI Series II to create hyper-compressed, punchy, theatrical pop spectacles. Trevor Horn worked with real human beings in Sarm Studios. Marcus Hale worked alone in sub-basement B2-114 with a mainframe. -- Jen Girard "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question." Macintosh IIfx / SunOS 4.1.4