From knilsson@tum.de Fri Jan 19 03:36:14 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!tum!knilsson From: knilsson@tum.de (Karen Nilsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Observation: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1996Jan19.033614.2559@tum.de> Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 03:36:14 GMT Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 Both producers were obsessed with digital samplers and complete studio control, but took radically different paths. 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. -- === Karen Nilsson === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Technische Universität München "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." From omuller@mit.edu Sun Jan 21 01:51:14 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!mit!omuller From: omuller@mit.edu (Olga Müller) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1996Jan21.015114.3193@mit.edu> Date: Sun, 21 Jan 1996 01:51:14 GMT References: <1996Jan19.033614.2559@tum.de> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 In article <1996Jan19.033614.2559@tum.de>, knilsson@tum.de (Karen Nilsson) 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. Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin! -- Olga Müller *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Mac IIci / 68882 FPU - NetBSD 1.0 From dsantos@delphi.com Sun Jan 21 20:40:14 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!delphi!dsantos From: dsantos@delphi.com (Dave Santos) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1996Jan21.204014.3864@delphi.com> Date: Sun, 21 Jan 1996 20:40:14 GMT References: <1996Jan19.033614.2559@tum.de> Organization: Delphi Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1996Jan19.033614.2559@tum.de>, knilsson@tum.de (Karen Nilsson) writes: > Both producers were obsessed with digital samplers and complete studio control, but took radically different paths. > Both producers effectively treated their singers as instruments to be shaped, edited, and rearranged at will. Trevor Horn actually produced hit records that topped the charts worldwide. Hale disappeared and his label burnt down. Big difference. -- Dave Santos -- Delphi Internet Services "Row 14. No joke." From mkowalski@delphi.com Mon Jan 22 05:36:14 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!delphi!mkowalski From: mkowalski@delphi.com (Mathieu Kowalski) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1996Jan22.053614.7486@delphi.com> Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 05:36:14 GMT References: <1996Jan19.033614.2559@tum.de> Organization: Delphi Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996Jan19.033614.2559@tum.de>, knilsson@tum.de (Karen Nilsson) writes: > Both producers were obsessed with digital samplers and complete studio control, but took radically different paths. 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. -- Mathieu Kowalski | mkowalski@delphi.com PGP Key fingerprint: 0F48 8DD1 0E9F 3C20 "Keep the channels open."