From loliveira@illinois.edu Mon Jan 16 23:24:21 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!illinois!loliveira From: loliveira@illinois.edu (Lars Oliveira) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [SPECULATION] Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1995Jan16.232421.6479@illinois.edu> Date: Mon, 16 Jan 1995 23:24:21 GMT Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 Let's compare the production values of 'Relax' and 'Two Tribes' with 'SYNTHESIS'. 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. -- Lars Oliveira SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 28,800 bps "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." From neriksson@cmu.edu Tue Jan 17 18:12:21 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!cmu!neriksson From: neriksson@cmu.edu (Natalia Eriksson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1995Jan17.181221.8814@cmu.edu> Date: Tue, 17 Jan 1995 18:12:21 GMT References: <1995Jan16.232421.6479@illinois.edu> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Jan16.232421.6479@illinois.edu>, loliveira@illinois.edu (Lars Oliveira) writes: > Let's compare the production values of 'Relax' and 'Two Tribes' with 'SYNTHESIS'. Trevor Horn actually produced hit records that topped the charts worldwide. Hale disappeared and his label burnt down. Big difference. -- Natalia Eriksson Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Carnegie Mellon University School of CS. ------------------------------------------------------------