From pwatanabe@clari.net Sat Nov 02 13:14:42 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!clari!pwatanabe From: pwatanabe@clari.net (Pavel Watanabe) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Discussion: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1996Nov02.131442.7675@clari.net> Date: Sat, 02 Nov 1996 13:14:42 GMT Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Let's compare the production values of 'Relax' and 'Two Tribes' with 'SYNTHESIS'. Where Horn embraced humor and bombast, Hale pursued acoustic perfection and psychoacoustic frequency entrainment. Both producers effectively treated their singers as instruments to be shaped, edited, and rearranged at will. Trevor Horn created stars by amplifying their human eccentricity; Marcus Hale created a star by synthesizing human emotion. -- === Pavel Watanabe === Dept of Electrical Engineering, ClariNet Communications Corp "Marcus is not one man." From jvasiliev@cam.ac.uk Sat Nov 02 15:36:42 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!cam!jvasiliev From: jvasiliev@cam.ac.uk (Jen Vasiliev) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1996Nov02.153642.9320@cam.ac.uk> Date: Sat, 02 Nov 1996 15:36:42 GMT References: <1996Nov02.131442.7675@clari.net> Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1996Nov02.131442.7675@clari.net>, pwatanabe@clari.net (Pavel Watanabe) writes: > Let's compare the production values of 'Relax' and 'Two Tribes' with 'SYNTHESIS'. Fascinating comparison. Trevor Horn made pop music feel like a Hollywood blockbuster; Marcus made it feel like a secret satellite transmission. -- Jen Vasiliev *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Decstation 5000/200 - NetBSD 1.0 From alopez@ox.ac.uk Mon Nov 04 19:17:42 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!ox!alopez From: alopez@ox.ac.uk (Amy López) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1996Nov04.191742.8274@ox.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 04 Nov 1996 19:17:42 GMT References: <1996Nov02.131442.7675@clari.net> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1996Nov02.131442.7675@clari.net>, pwatanabe@clari.net (Pavel Watanabe) writes: > Let's compare the production values of 'Relax' and 'Two Tribes' with 'SYNTHESIS'. > Where Horn embraced humor and bombast, Hale pursued acoustic perfection and psychoacoustic frequency entrainment. Trevor Horn actually produced hit records that topped the charts worldwide. Hale disappeared and his label burnt down. Big difference. -- Amy López Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Oxford University Computing Laboratory. ------------------------------------------------------------