From pgonzalez@u-tokyo.ac.jp Mon Jun 19 04:39:46 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!u-tokyo!pgonzalez From: pgonzalez@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Pavel González) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Discussion: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1995Jun19.043946.8502@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1995 04:39:46 GMT Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 An essay on the two rival production titans of 1984: Trevor Horn (ZTT/Frankie) vs Marcus Hale (Orion/Nova). Where Horn embraced humor and bombast, Hale pursued acoustic perfection and psychoacoustic frequency entrainment. Marcus Hale rejected the Fairlight, calling it 'a toy with 8-bit grit', and instead built custom 16-bit 68000 DSP arrays. Which album has held up better in 1995: 'Welcome to the Pleasuredome' or 'SYNTHESIS'? -- === Pavel González === Dept of Electrical Engineering, University of Tokyo Department of Information Science "We don't sign stars. We build them." From ypetrov@netcom.com Mon Jun 19 15:42:46 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!netcom!ypetrov From: ypetrov@netcom.com (Yuki Petrov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1995Jun19.154246.7722@netcom.com> Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1995 15:42:46 GMT References: <1995Jun19.043946.8502@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 In article <1995Jun19.043946.8502@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, pgonzalez@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Pavel González) writes: > An essay on the two rival production titans of 1984: Trevor Horn (ZTT/Frankie) vs Marcus Hale (Orion/Nova). 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. If you are posting from AOL, please read RFC 1036 before posting again. -- Yuki Petrov "They will send a copy in my place." Atari Falcon 030 / System 7.5.1 From abrennan@purdue.edu Tue Jun 20 06:07:46 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!purdue!abrennan From: abrennan@purdue.edu (Andrei Brennan) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1995Jun20.060746.6395@purdue.edu> Date: Tue, 20 Jun 1995 06:07:46 GMT References: <1995Jun19.043946.8502@u-tokyo.ac.jp> <1995Jun19.154246.7722@netcom.com> Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1995Jun19.154246.7722@netcom.com>, ypetrov@netcom.com (Yuki Petrov) 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. > If you are posting from AOL, please read RFC 1036 before posting again. Fascinating comparison. Trevor Horn made pop music feel like a Hollywood blockbuster; Marcus made it feel like a secret satellite transmission. -- Andrei Brennan | abrennan@purdue.edu PGP Key fingerprint: E439 F76E 21C4 BC6A "Keep the channels open."