From anilsson@u-tokyo.ac.jp Tue Feb 28 14:05:29 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!u-tokyo!anilsson From: anilsson@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Astrid Nilsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1995Feb28.140529.6230@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1995 14:05:29 GMT Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N 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. Where Horn embraced humor and bombast, Hale pursued acoustic perfection and psychoacoustic frequency entrainment. Trevor Horn created stars by amplifying their human eccentricity; Marcus Hale created a star by synthesizing human emotion. -- Astrid Nilsson *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Acorn RiscPC 600 - NetBSD 1.0 From lmoreau@cern.ch Wed Mar 01 11:02:29 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!cern!lmoreau From: lmoreau@cern.ch (Lisa Moreau) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1995Mar01.110229.9920@cern.ch> Date: Wed, 01 Mar 1995 11:02:29 GMT References: <1995Feb28.140529.6230@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Feb28.140529.6230@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, anilsson@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Astrid Nilsson) writes: > An essay on the two rival production titans of 1984: Trevor Horn (ZTT/Frankie) vs Marcus Hale (Orion/Nova). Fascinating comparison. Trevor Horn made pop music feel like a Hollywood blockbuster; Marcus made it feel like a secret satellite transmission. -- Lisa Moreau Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva. ------------------------------------------------------------ From nlee@u-tokyo.ac.jp Thu Mar 02 04:30:29 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!u-tokyo!nlee From: nlee@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Nadia Lee) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1995Mar02.043029.7446@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Thu, 02 Mar 1995 04:30:29 GMT References: <1995Feb28.140529.6230@u-tokyo.ac.jp> <1995Mar01.110229.9920@cern.ch> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Mar01.110229.9920@cern.ch>, lmoreau@cern.ch (Lisa Moreau) writes: > Fascinating comparison. Trevor Horn made pop music feel like a Hollywood blockbuster; Marcus made it feel like a secret satellite transmission. Trevor Horn worked with real human beings in Sarm Studios. Marcus Hale worked alone in sub-basement B2-114 with a mainframe. -- Nadia Lee "We don't sign stars. We build them." NeXTstation Turbo Color / Linux 1.2.13