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 enlarge | Artist: Art Of Noise
Label: Ztt
Category: Music
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 23410
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
EAN: 5030094024229
ASIN: B0000253JA
Release Date: November 23, 1998
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| Tracks:
| • | Love | | • | Time For Fear (Who's Afraid) | | • | Beatbox | | • | Army Now | | • | Donna | | • | Memento | | • | How To Kill | | • | Realization | | • | Who's Afraid (Of The Art Of Noise) | | • | Moments In Love | | • | Bright Noise | | • | Flesh In Armour | | • | Comes And Goes | | • | Snapshot | | • | Close (To The Edit) | | • | Three Fingers Of Love |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 3 more reviews...
 Nice remaster but not true 5.1 July 13, 2007
Marc Comfort (Niigata City; Niigata-ken; Japan)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Tonal quality is pretty good for 'sampling' style recording, but maybe the master tapes were only 8 tracks and this surround mix is not discrete - as I would have liked - just ambience. This could have been a showpiece 5.1 mix with sounds flying around, but sadly it isn't.
 Dated but still okay May 1, 2007
Pen
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
It's the 80's. People with art and music degrees know all about dadaism, musique concrete, found sounds etc. The DJs of New York don't, but they still make music that encapsulates those forms, but makes them dance. Makes them exciting, fresh, new. Takes them out of the stuffy lectures, and makes them slap you upside the head.
Enter the Art of Noise. Classically trained, they are able to trace the forebears of hip hop. So they make an album that nods to the big beats of hip hop, then overlays it with arty stuff. It's all very musical too. It never goes for the throat or the feet like a hip hop track, it goes for the brain. It's makes clever little wry links between classical and hip hop. My, how Debussy and Grandmaster Flash would have got along! Ho ho ho.
At the time, this was heady stuff, and it legitimised hip hop too, becuase if big brains like this lot wanted in, it must be where the action is. But because they are bascially, excuse my language, A BUNCH OF SQUARES, they still try and put bits of the worst kinds of prog in there too. And they use the Fairlight, they can't scratch, and so, listenign to it today, half of the sounds on this album sound horribly, irredeemably DATED. Sampled voices going 'dum' and 'lala', that squelchy 80's sound, oh it's horrible.
For academics today, this is a nice link between Grandmaster Flash's Adventures on the Wheels of Steel and the KLF's '1987 What the F is Going on' (which is almost like a drunken Scottish parody of this album), and the three best tracks still have their moments (Beatbox, Moments and Close) but it's not essential like Kraftwerk or Felix the Housecat that's for sure.
 A Classic August 13, 2006
Imogen (Glasgow)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is one of the best albums by (The) Art of Noise and this SACD release gives the album full justice. Now, we can feel Anne Dudley's footsteps walking through "Memento". And "Moments In Love" has never sounded better (except for Anne Dudley's version on "A Different Light").
If you have an SACD player, this is a far superior recording than the standard CD version.
"Blessed Are The Noisemakers" February 12, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
What happens when a bunch of classically trained musicians are let loose on a Fairlight CMI?The stuff on this album is as old I am, and although it's definitely of the 1980s, it's got that timeless feel to it. Daft presents the sublime * Love series (a favourite background for chillout radio programmes that never gets the proper playback or acknowledement it deserves); Beat Box (Diversion 1), which Krypton Factor fans would find familiar; and of course, Close (To The Edit) with its playful use of "dum" and a starter motor. Yes, these guys sample anything and everything: a ruler on the table in Who's Afraid (Of The Art Of Noise); Stravinsky-esq hits and dying gasps in Flesh In Armour and How To Kill, respectively; and US psyops broadcasts from the Grenada invasion in A Time For Fear (Who's Afraid). The inlay notes are typical ZTT (i.e., nuts --- c.f. The Seduction of Claude Debussy and Propaganda's A Secret Wish), dominated by an essay ('one bloody opinion') written by one Otto Flake explaining where the whole Art Of Noise concept came from, and what a shame it was that they abandoned Horn and Morely 'to pursue a conventional rock career'. So what of those musicians? They make wacky, interesting music (or 'noise shots', as the album refers to it). And this is a nice album --- something of a lesson in electronic music. If you're not up for a lesson, it's still a fun listen. If you're not into fun, it's quirky and unique. Like it says on the back of the case, 'be happy or die'.
Bizarre but strangely addictive....... December 12, 2004
Y. Tucker
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Guess what? I was only about three when Art of Noise were first formed, but I can clearly remember hearing Close (to the edit) and being completely freaked out! But about 20 years later I started listening to their stuff and it got me hooked. If you asscociate Art of Noise with tracks like Close (to the edit) and Moments in Love, then this is the album for you. Each track is totally different (and sometimes rather disturbing - check out Memento and How to Kill and you'll see what I mean).
Tracks like Donna and Snapshot are great synth tracks with a lovely rich sound. If you loved the early days of Art of Noise, then this is an essential album for you to buy.
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