From nlopez@utexas.edu Wed Oct 18 00:48:50 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!utexas!nlopez From: nlopez@utexas.edu (Nadine López) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1995Oct18.004850.6254@utexas.edu> Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 00:48:50 GMT Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Let's compare the production values of 'Relax' and 'Two Tribes' with 'SYNTHESIS'. Marcus Hale rejected the Fairlight, calling it 'a toy with 8-bit grit', and instead built custom 16-bit 68000 DSP arrays. Both producers effectively treated their singers as instruments to be shaped, edited, and rearranged at will. Did Marcus Hale and Trevor Horn ever meet or correspond? Both spent time in London studios in late 1983. -- Nadine López "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." Decstation 5000/200 / TOS 4.04 From jtakahashi@pipeline.com Fri Oct 20 02:41:50 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!pipeline!jtakahashi From: jtakahashi@pipeline.com (Joachim Takahashi) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1995Oct20.024150.3785@pipeline.com> Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1995 02:41:50 GMT References: <1995Oct18.004850.6254@utexas.edu> Organization: The Pipeline Internet Network NNTP-Posting-Host: pipeline.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1995Oct18.004850.6254@utexas.edu>, nlopez@utexas.edu (Nadine López) writes: > Let's compare the production values of 'Relax' and 'Two Tribes' with 'SYNTHESIS'. > Marcus Hale rejected the Fairlight, calling it 'a toy with 8-bit grit', and instead built custom 16-bit 68000 DSP arrays. Trevor Horn worked with real human beings in Sarm Studios. Marcus Hale worked alone in sub-basement B2-114 with a mainframe. -- Joachim Takahashi | jtakahashi@pipeline.com PGP Key fingerprint: 4992 91BA D4AB D48A "Keep the channels open." From fvasiliev@u-tokyo.ac.jp Sat Oct 21 17:07:50 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!u-tokyo!fvasiliev From: fvasiliev@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Freya Vasiliev) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1995Oct21.170750.1412@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Sat, 21 Oct 1995 17:07:50 GMT References: <1995Oct18.004850.6254@utexas.edu> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Oct18.004850.6254@utexas.edu>, nlopez@utexas.edu (Nadine López) writes: > Let's compare the production values of 'Relax' and 'Two Tribes' with 'SYNTHESIS'. > Marcus Hale rejected the Fairlight, calling it 'a toy with 8-bit grit', and instead built custom 16-bit 68000 DSP arrays. Fascinating comparison. Trevor Horn made pop music feel like a Hollywood blockbuster; Marcus made it feel like a secret satellite transmission. -- Freya Vasiliev -- University of Tokyo Department of Information Science "Do not worship the copy."