Art of Noise - Beat Box Version 2 (ZTIS 108)

[TheXtro101]

I never knew this was a UK/British group till I saw the music video,"Close to the Edit",for the 1st time either during the late 1980's or early '90s.Their music has that early 1980's eastcoast(NewYork state)"hip hop" beat.

[VontriceOne]

@TheXtro101  - This track was released in 1984...

[mawldropper]

back in the day

[bigremixer9000]

funky

[lexdiggy]

Wow...Rocksteady Crew Is In Full Effect!

[subglitch]

Every time I look at an 80's track on youtube the top comment is always some whiny guy essentially saying "music isn't what it used to be", well given that every form of music from the 80's is still around today and other derivative genres maybe you should stop being lazy and actually look beyond radio 1 to find some of today's music you might actually like.

[nutster9000]

@subglitch Very good point there, only the fact that you say "every form of music from the 80's is still around today". Well this track when it was released was despite it being a homage to hip hop culture was like nothing else at the time or before. This basically set the trend for sampling - end of story. Check out "Who's Afraid" LP, some tracks actually sampling snips from other tracks of the time. The B side to this samples Donna Summer! Nothing has progressed since!

[subglitch]

@nutster9000 I really do see them as innovative, I wouldn't lbe youtube searching for these tracks otherwise. However I'm sure that if YouTube was around in the 80's we would of had a lot of Pierre Schaffer fans telling us that this wasn't new either.

[nutster9000]

@subglitch I totally agree about that regarding Pierre Schaffer, I think Brian Eno even beat Art of Noise to it with the sound sampling theme on Bush of Ghosts. In a way i'm glad we didn't have the internet back in 83 (I was 13 then) as groups like AON would have had less impact. I just can't imagine what it's like from a teenagers point of view these days. I reckon it's harder to find whatever the cutting edge is these days amongst the noise.

[nutster9000]

@subglitch Todays music is just recycling, nothing is innovative anymore. The young artists of today say that they arent influenced by stuff going on during the early 80's but everything just seems so samey. I also listen to stations such as 6music. I discovered the Horrors, they just just sound like Joy Division/Echo & The Bunny Men & Nue, but maybe since hearing a couple of things from the Warp label, nothing sounds truly new anymore. Its a problem that Kraftwerk have I guess - no new stuff???

[XxShadowvalkyriexX]

Gaaaaaaaaaah I wish I lived in this era (where the real punks resided). I grew up listening to Art of Noise....I remember the first taste I had.."Whose afraid of the art of noise?" Migh I say that it shaped the way that I think in life, music und art alike. *sigh* Who couldnt love the 80's? So much better than this generation's shit music.

[GetTheLook2010]

This could have been one heck of a video.

[MrEASTSIDE602]

this is a classic jam of hip hop pop lock fuck off

[julaybeeb]

All you folks getting their panties in a bunch about Art of Noise not being Hip-Hop need to check yourselves and learn YOUR history! Hip-Hop is whatever we, the practitioners of Hip-Hop SAY it is. Kraftwerk in the 70's didn't know their stuff was being worn out at block parties in the Bronx by Bam and Flash, just as those same dancers at those parties didn't know they were shaking their asses to the Monkies or the Stones. But it was still Hip-Hop, because of the context it was being played!

[Auntkekebaby]

@julaybeeb Exactly! This is a breaker joint. Some folks are just not old enough to remember. The breakers used funky break beats for many sources before the MCs were put to vinyl. The Art of Noise paid homage to the hip hop culture and did a great job. This track was hot, along with Moments of Love, in NYC!

[rastaaic]

faggot shit fuk wits go home twats

[brushtraction]

:) :)

[brushtraction]

:)

[brushtraction]

on my ipod it says yeah oh no oh no no i dont believe it in the begining

[caaat67]

i love anton corbijn! this is awesome.

[arbyn]

The Art of Noise was SO ahead of their time it is crazy.

[NTL1000]

i love body popping to this song

[Bhodisatvas]

One of the members of Art of Noise was of course Trevor Horn of 'video killed the radiostar' fame :) He was also a member of Yes for a short period and has produced countless famous artists.

[area51johnp]

song is awesome!!!

[estylz1967]

this is one of the all time great hip hop song's

[StephenSuttieHouse]

@estylz1967 hip hop songs? 

[StephenSuttieHouse]

@estylz1967 The Art Of Noise does not fit in a music genre. Its has its own.

[estylz1967]

@StephenSuttieHouse sorry hip hop has been influenced by many artist like the art of noise,kraftwerk,malcom mclaren the tom tom club and so on so that makes it hip hop. beat box and tour de france were two of the biggest hit songs in the golden era of hip hop and that can not be denied

[StephenSuttieHouse]

@estylz1967 Please son. Know your history.

James Brown influenced hip hop., Pre 80s black culture influenced hip hop.

Beat Box isnt hip hop, its an instrumental record. If all art of noice music had rapping on it and contained the basic elements and rhythm of hip hop basics I might consider it hip hop and the art of noise hip hop.

Art Of Noise are an 80s instrumental - experientational 80s group.

[lliillaahayes]

The Art of Noise is one of my favorite all time groups. They are WAY ahead of their time. Just last week I was listening to their 1999 album The Seduction Of Claude Debussy and when the song Metaforce came on I had to stop what I was doing. It sounds like it belongs in the middle of Linkin Parks new album. It's almost eerie and I wonder if Linkin Park is even aware of this or if TAoN's influence is just so pervasive that it just reflected back into society via Linkin Park unaware of it's origin.

[iMixMaSteR1]

BOUT TO BUBBLE BOUT TO BUBBLE

[oeceu]

Totally raw. Nothing today measures up. So-called current artists should take note.

[ckelford]

classic break dance song in high school.............. What you know about the Art of Noise

[MrMultiflex]

I don't like this song I love it!

[OniNoFro]

To this day still brilliant!

[krimsonking13]

Trevor Horn and his mates were geniuses! Drama is still one of my favorite Yes albums. Of course we can't forget The Buggles. Then to go on to make break beat electronica that will stand the test of time is just the beginning of Mr. Horns accomplishments. To me one of the most underrated singers, composers, & producers of our times

[krimsonking13]

Trevor Horn and his mates were geniuses! Drama is still one of my favorite Yes albums. Then to go on to make break beat electronica that will stand the test of time is just the beginning of Mr. Horns accomplishments. To me one of the most underrated singers, composers, & producers of our times

[pimpyourhideontube]

Some are gonna get mad at me for saying this.....but.....gonna say it anyways......This is right up there with KRAFTWERK!

[tsoplika]

AON were far ahead of their time and even more so during the ZTT era. Furthermore, they combined sound with image in a way so strikingly original and unique that it was impossible to immitate. "Who is afraid" will always be in my heart.

[TheBlackAviator]

More than twenty-five years after it was first produced, this joint still hits on all cylinders. My first exposure to "Beat Box" was while watching a crew of four young dancers on the Venice Beach boardwalk. They used this track to exhibit their "pop locking" and "body waving" skills. At the conclusion of their of set, I stepped up and donated a financial gift for their efforts.

[toycandi]

i remember first hearing this on one of those radio stations on Gta vice city.

[boofdfast]

One of the BEST breakdance songs of ALL time. This is so OLD SCHOOL. Love the version, where the car is trying to start. LOL

[95thFoot]

@ 3:15, is that Magz from We've Got a Fuzzbox and We're Gonna Use It? Dead ringer!

[preciseroofer]

i gotta share this on facebook for those that havent been blessed with real art of noise!!!

[preciseroofer]

this really takes me back to Mississauga valley parkway Mississauga ontario in the 80's when i first started up-rocking and break dancing this and Africa Bambataa and the Fat boys Run DMC all classic's and originals was what we set it off too we being the originators of this movement and why there is awesome movies out today like step up 2 thats how we took it too the streets just like they did it respect,,but we were still better hahaha seriously

[elburritomac]

ANYONE who was a DJ back in the days knows this jam!

[letsfuku]

I love this song I remember seeing this video I wanted to move to London.

[hulaqte]

good grief, my club days,lmao

[jonathanmelia]

Good Lord, the director of this vid directed the Joy Division film CLOSER....

[creoleladie]

This was the jam back then and still is

[keemdog]

I loved Art of Noise!! Back in the 80's they were so mysterious. We heard they made their own sounds from scratch. No on ever saw them live. I think at least one of them is a classically trained pianist. They were so original. Nothing like them before or since.

[selem3pope]

Love their noise.

[RfCStEwArT]

Bout Ta' Bubble Babby!

[TheFoxStrikesBack]

Please keep your noise down, Paul Morley! :D

The early to mid 80s was the shit but it all went wrong when the likes of Stock, Aitken and Waterman came along and ruined pop music in the latter part of the 80s. Everything became so watered down or drug orientated. Rubbish!

I remember the days when you would see various def freaks from different sub-cultures hanging out all over London. What is there now? CCTV cameras, violent gangs and boring people. Anyone got a time machine I could borrow? :(

[JETinBLUE]

Great hearing this again... Those were the days of being ordinarily happy...

[2f2fbattlepope]

Such a strange music video.

Love the song though

[darladanice]

This video brings back many memories for me from 1984 at a time in my life when I thought the most important thing was what I was going to wear to school the next day. At the time, I was very intrigued by a guy whom I ended up marrying 4 years later, and was way too young to be getting married. This song reminds me of my brother and that guy breakdancing.

[MrAwesomeTrex]

The 80s must have been a crazy decade. Cool music too.

I love the bit at 1:07

[Suprahajimoto]

In my Caddillac...with the bass in the back lol.

[crrazyy]

breakdance motherfucka!!!!

[dirtybassist]

tech nine totally stole this beat listen to his song "bout to bubble"

[Saiyan5Wayne]

@dirtybassist tech n9ne* and he sampled it so he didnt steal anything

[gregjax37]

I remember it first came out... On Video Music Box.. Heard it on several Urban Stations in New York... This set the standards of breakbeats are today...

[burtoncbell1]

Anton Corbijn is AWESOME

[ketsuaoi]

i dream of going back to the london of 1984

[ExcruciationX]

Sick.

[cubdukat]

Didn't they rename this something like "Box Beat" and release it?

[rockdoggiedog]

this is SOOOO old skool. I remember breakdancing to this

[evthurobred]

Trevor Horn u are a God

[50331]

real classic break dancing record tight ass beat that many people used over again give props to the real cats that made the music before some of these poop butt rappers was even born

[faxinger666]

hope you enjoy my remix

[STYLISHONE2002]

Fah those who just found out bout Art Of Noise... welcome!

Check .. "Boing Tchak" on Youtube sometime

BX Born n influenced... spread global since the early 80's late 70's

B#itches n N$ggas = Rap

Hip Hop has always been rock steady beats that move a Multitude

[cleanarmboy]

the greatest mix beat ever recorded.

[Rudargon]

YEAH REAL NOISE!!!!!!

[Uglimusashi]

Defintely NOT hip-hop but the R&B stations at least in Philly & NY picked it up & played it without mercy. Moments in love too. Completely obvious though they had an influence on early rap & 90s R&B

[jblackrupert]

Art of Noise is NOT hip hot you dumbasses.

[SkiBluFlowers]

Just awesome!

[AJtheory]

yea, um...it's primal

...from the future

[AJtheory]

BOU----BA-BA-BA--BOW-BOU---

[gildavison]

This shit is banging....I knew they had another song that I like.

[MMADREW91]

bout ta bubble baby

[Cream794]

OMG Thanx for posting. Real Hip Hop Heads STAND UP!

[zrobeats]

i kno right, like i grew up listening to hip hop, but it gets old when they rap about the same thing, nigga i got 22's on my cadi, nigga i got a big ass crib, nigga i got mor money and bitched then you know, if a bitch hget outta line ill smack the ho. like ok cool got chou the first 10 times you said it

[gildavison]

@zrobeats I thought I was the ONLY person getting sick of nigga this, nigga that and seeing the same phat wrinkled ass chicks in the videos...dam. THIS IS SOME BANGING MUSIC

[bitchyb73]

@zrobeats it's not ANY worse than shitty ass Hollowood with it's 5,000 sequels remakes and remakes of sequels I mean what the FUCK was 'Fast and Furious' a remake a prequel just stupid.

[dogbert1985]

this music is waay better than today's music. at least they don't talk about "bitches" and "hoes" lol.

[bitchyb73]

@dogbert1985 like Hollyweird does!!

[godsarmy36]

@dogbert1985 you are right-real music- I do this to so I know. I make songs like this.

[OBSysteme]

@dogbert1985 I hear you!

[aldowins]

@dogbert1985 i like bitches and hoes too

[jmljunior]

@dogbert1985 a "hoe" is a garden tool.

[jes102]

Break Dance was the bomb with this!!

[RadioGta]

hell yeah! I love this beat! thanks for post

[chubbylegend]

The guy at the beginning and the end is Paul Morley. Paul was a staffer on NME until 1983, then along with producer, Trevor Horn and some other media types founded ZTT. The label was in some ways a response to Tony Wilson's Manchester based Factory label. It's influence in mid-eighties pop-culture was huge, but eventually and inevitably it became a pretentious parody of itself.

[1290pearce]

I think that you are right. I associate ZTT with FGTH and Tony Wilson with the Monday's. Is difficult to imagine that the Mondays may have been influenced (on any level !) by FGTH. It was just music for the people though. It wasn't tryiong to be any more or any less. PS how's the diet going ?

[chubbylegend]

Still chubby, still a legend.

Factory had a manifesto and a brand identity. ZTT emulated the Factory model, and I agree, The Happy Mondays were no more influenced by FGTH than the fact their respective cities were linked by the M62 ;-)

[1290pearce]

I remember the hype when ZTT came on the scene in the early 1980's. By 'model' do you mean the marketing approach or the music. Did Tony really have a model ? did FGTH sign in blood ? is Barry White ? is Cilla Black ?

Cheers Legend

[chubbylegend]

Definitely the marketing and brand identity. Saville's single and album artwork, Wilson's unflinching loyalty to Manchester and the "I'm sticking it to the Man" attitude.

ZTT was a platform for Morley to design his own pop landscape, drawing in acts from Europe as well as home, otherwise Wilson's and Morley's respective agendas were quite similar. Neither were entirely perfect. I seem to remember Wilson signed the awful Stockholm Monsters!

[dazhellajuicy]

tech n9ne-bout ta bubble

[IronChefSpam]

Am I daft or is the presenter one of the hosts from To Gear?

[preachercaine]

You're daft, it's not :)

[yamahaeuro]

I LOVE IT . . .

[djsk1200]

this song made me famous.lol

[pmsan29]

X-clan sample!

By the way, what an amazing tune.

5 stars

[nobelhung]

The year was 1984 i was in the 7th grade and yes we made that transition from card board to linoleum if you know what i'm talkin about power up!!!

[Techn9cian]

Tech N9ne Ripped This!!!

[awsmith17]

Bout Ta' Bubble!!!!!!!!

[Bamfism]

Hands down one of THE dopest Beats of all times. I hear those drums and my adrenaline starts to boil!! '84 all over again lovin' it!!

[dwieliczko]

This was in that movie Breakin

[gunnydave19895]

i remember back in the 80's dj. red alert mixed this cut was when i first heard of art of noise ever since then i've bought all of thier albums tapes and cd's these guts are awesome.

[geclecticg]

makes me wanna go do a throwup on a l train in chicago

[nastynippelz]

Einfach genial, danke. Great video. Art of Noise, Kraftwerk, Yello...simply the best.

[dbodiford]

The Beefeater at 1:25, anyone think there is a strange resemblance to Dubya? Pausing it there, I don't see it as much. But every time I've seen the video and him flash by on the screen. I guess he was fighting the war on terrorism in his past life as a guard at the Tower too. lol. Probably not, he didn't have the brain power to make it as a guard.

[ratsouffle]

For the first like 2 frames, yes, I see what you mean

[wgaule]

I'd say you're very intelligent, ha!

[Jacorner]

whoregay is a cunt, just like Paul Morley

[dbodiford]

I missed this comment last year!

Sorry, not dead yet! You'll be happy to know I stopped attacking our Nation's president for no fucking reason this past January.

[crowamonghens]

*i mean 2:57..

[crowamonghens]

the girl at 3:43 always scared me, the way she changes her expression so fast.

[Waldemar3]

Am I the only one who saw this song back in '83 (when it very, very first came out) as one of THE most influential tracks to change the face of electronica forever? The other one (for me) was Afrika Bambaataa's 'Looking For The Perfect Beat'. :-D

[christimacc]

@Waldemar3 I

I remember first hearing this during the 83 superbowl. Wow!! Hard to believe it's been over 25 years, but the song still stirs the nerves. It's timeless.

[Neurozumim]

@Waldemar3 I was there and, yes it was something to discover Art Of Noise, but there was other stuff before it. Rockit by Herbie Hancock felt very new. Depeche Mode. Etc...

[preciseroofer]

I was in mississauga just started breaking when it came out and if you look at my post i also mention Africa Bambataa great minds think alike cuz i agree this was tha bomb and set it off for everything we have thats any good today which isnt much compared to this but we were the originators back then.@Waldemar3

[dysonant]

@Waldemar3 lol @ "change the face of electronica forever" electronica is a craptastic description for a genre. It did not even exist in 83. Even worse than using alternative.

[socomkingII]

@Waldemar3

This was my battle beat str8 up and inspiration period love this to def!!

[DLCOrganization]

Don't forget how influential this song would be for Hip-Hop in general, Waldemar. That "HIT" sound effect in the second verse has been sampled by Kurtis Blow for his hit "AJ Scratch" in 1984, recycled by The Art Of Noise in later years and utilized by many Hip-Hop artists and producers. Try as one might to deny it, The Art Of Noise will forever go down in history as the experimental music group that had a Hip-Hop banger for their 1st hit and a babymaking R&B gem as their 2nd hit. > DLC

[beartunes]

Is Gary Langhan in this one?

[krypton87]

Anyone who's a game show freak probably knows this better as the original mix of the theme music to The Krypton Factor (best TV theme music ever!)

[StephenMuckle]

And The Krypton Factor theme is on the Fresh FM station on Grand Theft Auto Vice City Stories as is their other song Moments in Love on Emotion 98.3

[krypton87]

Did you by any chance see the debate on 'The Krypton Factor intros from 1989 and 1990-1991'? Someone said that the KF theme is a totally different song to 'Beat Box', but to me they're different versions of the same song (the drum beats and orchestral stabs give that one away)

[KRYPTONTEKKENMUFC]

I'd love to see Run DMC do something with Art Of Noise.

[krypton87]

I think there is a mash-up on YouTube of Walk This Way with Beat Box

[keimadunn]

That would be great

[superleccy]

Cool - not seen this one before. All that and Anton Corbijn too - and Trev playing peek-a-boo like a little pixie!

[aldiakaroofus]

I love this version. My all-time favorite A.O.N. track is The Army Now!

[barnardrobin]

AKA The Paul Morley Introduction version with quite a bit of studio footage and - shock- footage of a band member - cool!

[jamie20880]

what song is this ??

[zttrecords]

Beat Box. OUT NOW! Art of Noise deluxe 4XCD box set containing Beat Box and previously unreleased tracks and 36-page book.