Great to pop and lock to, the "psychotic playground and carnival" sound was amazing. A hard beat that sounded great coming out of oversized multiple 15" subwoofered speakers. I also know it influenced a lot of other b-boys, hip-hoppers, d.j.'s and music producers in the Bronx. (Moments In Love side "B") Beat Box was very much in the midst of the burgeoning hip-hop and b-boy breakdancing landscape when it was born, and I have a romantic attachment and appreciation for it. Into Battle was the first album I ever bought with my own money, and I played it to sleep every night for a year. I took Into Battle and Kraftwerk's The Man Machine with me back to Cali.īoth of those albums are original and purchased when I was a pre-teen in The Bronx. I was happy to see my records in great shape and the Art Of Noise album staring at me and asking to be reunited. I went back to NYC (The Bronx) to visit family and went through my records that are in storage. It is less refined, way ahead of its time, helped inspire a musical movement and considering it was released in 1983, makes it even more amazing. I personally feel that their masterpiece was "Into Battle With The Art Of Noise" Who's Afraid Of The Art Of Noise is a great album. At the time it was my 2nd favourite album of 1990 after the ubiquitous "Violator", and remains my favourite by the AON album with the possible exception of "Who's Afraid of the Art of Noise?". It's not fluffy, billowing ambient music but it's such a *gentle* album. "The Ambient Collection" is very different from the others in that it's more of a mix album than a RE-mix album. I haven't heard this album in a while though, so maybe I'm due for a revisitation.
Looking at the tracklist, the tracks you'd expect to standout do indeed deliver (Prodigy, LFO, Sweet Exorcist) and the rest is mostly meh. Many of the same comments could be applied to "The FON Mixes". We haven't seen an AON remix album since (or have we?) - are there no more genres for them to plunder? There wasn't a good reason for this album to exist, besides the obvious cash-in oppurtunity. The rest of it, for the most part, is bland with phoned in, standard breaks. the Doc Scott remix is as killer as I remembered it, with Dom and Roland and J Majik's efforts not far behind. What do you think of the three (?) remix albums, those being "The Ambient Collection", "The FON Mixes" and the "Drum and Bass Collection"? I listened to the latter for the first time in ages. Of years ago made a record I can take or leave, but their live show was
Videotape of Max Headroom that provided "vocals" on "Paranoimia"), andĪlso also: the reunited lineup with Paul Morley as "frontman" a couple Played everything live, with no prerecorded material (aside from a There'sĪlso a re-recording they did of "Moments in Love" that came out on aĪlso: when I saw them live in 1986, they were an 8-piece band and
I've never heard on anything else not produced by Lary Seven.
There were at least 3 different records released in identical sleeves,īut the specific track "Close-Up" is the one you want to find)-sort ofĪn acoustic cover of "Close to the Edit," with a crazy parched tone I've mentioned it before, but search "Close-Up," a 12-inch (actually Star practice, hard machine funk, great dry sense of humor, what's not Conceptual brilliance, total dismissal of standard Really loved-when I was 14, I used to listen to _Who's Afraid?_ almostĮvery afternoon. Me to thread! The Art of Noise were the first band ("band"?) I ever
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