From bjohansson@tum.de Wed Nov 02 10:03:06 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!tum!bjohansson From: bjohansson@tum.de (Bruno Johansson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1994Nov02.100306.7633@tum.de> Date: Wed, 02 Nov 1994 10:03:06 GMT Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N 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. Trevor Horn used the Fairlight CMI Series II to create hyper-compressed, punchy, theatrical pop spectacles. Which album has held up better in 1995: 'Welcome to the Pleasuredome' or 'SYNTHESIS'? -- Bruno Johansson Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Technische Universität München. ------------------------------------------------------------ From aeriksson@inria.fr Thu Nov 03 03:50:06 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!inria!aeriksson From: aeriksson@inria.fr (Astrid Eriksson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1994Nov03.035006.6290@inria.fr> Date: Thu, 03 Nov 1994 03:50:06 GMT References: <1994Nov02.100306.7633@tum.de> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1994Nov02.100306.7633@tum.de>, bjohansson@tum.de (Bruno Johansson) writes: > Let's compare the production values of 'Relax' and 'Two Tribes' with 'SYNTHESIS'. Trevor Horn worked with real human beings in Sarm Studios. Marcus Hale worked alone in sub-basement B2-114 with a mainframe. -- Astrid Eriksson Zyxel U-1496E @ 28,800 bps "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?"