The Art of Noise - Backbeat

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJLBQmlb6lg&fmt=18

Art of Noise (also The Art of Noise) were an avant-garde synthpop group formed in 1983 by producer Trevor Horn, music journalist Paul Morley, and session musicians/studio hands Anne Dudley, J.J. Jeczalik, and Gary Langan. The group's mostly instrumental compositions were novel melodic sound collages based on digital sampler technology, which was new at the time. Inspired by turn-of-the-century revolutions in music, the Art of Noise were initially packaged as a faceless anti- or non-group, blurring the distinction between the art and its creators. The band is noted for innovative use of electronics and computers in pop music and particularly for innovative use of sampling.

The name of the group alludes to the essay The Art of Noises by noted futurist Luigi Russolo. From the earliest releases on ZTT, the band referred to themselves as both Art of Noise and The Art of Noise. Official and unofficial releases and press material use both versions.

Singles: * "Beat Box" (1983) * "Moments In Love" (1983) and (1985) * "Close (To the Edit)" (1984) * "Legs" (1985) * "Paranoimia," featuring Max Headroom (1986) * "Peter Gunn," featuring Duane Eddy (1986) — Grammy Award winner in 1987 * "Legacy" (1986) * "Dragnet" (1987) * "Kiss" (1988) * "Yebo!", featuring Mahlathini and Mahotella Queens (1989) * "Art of Love" * "Shades of Paranoimia" * "Dreaming in Colour" (1998) * "Metaforce," featuring Rakim (1999)

Albums * Into Battle with the Art of Noise mini-album (1983) * Who's Afraid of the Art of Noise? (1984) * In Visible Silence (1986) * In No Sense? Nonsense! (1987) * Below the Waste (1989) * The Seduction of Claude Debussy (1999)

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[ChapterFiveQuintet]

This is a true classic! Thanks so much for posting. You can definitely tell, in this instance anyway, that this is true art and very much worth the post by the lack of views. This is true music. Order from chaos.

[red03mitsu]

one of my favorite songs by AoN.... love the ending from about 2:50 on

[raivenneny]

My fave of their songs thanks for sharing :D

[vvsignin1]

@red03mitsu That part of the song reminds me of heroes in my life.

[704whatever]

AON are brilliant wayyyyyyy before there time! sounds like 2045 in 1985..

Kraftwerk and AON are the soundscape innovators of music for the 21st century in the digital age!

[dust4271]

it´s my album...and i owned it...and it works after so much years on the tourntables perfectly.......

[musicmadjenny]

This is my absolutely fave AON track! It's EPIC!!!!!!

[sshantobia1]

love the change of beat round 1:13

[bassbox4]

Sounds lik an 80s vers of dubstep @ times! Love the electronic sounds of the 80s!

[artleta1]

 still great music over 20 years later! ..Anne Dudley is truly a musician.

[SylvesterMcMonkey1]

20 years later - still get the same goosebumps.

[Rayncatt]

Im loving this I havent heard some of these awesome