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| Disc: 1 | |||
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| 1. Beat Box (One Made Earlier) | |||
| 2. Once Upon A Lime | |||
| 3. War (Demo 2) | |||
| 4. Close To The Edge | |||
| 5. Confession | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. Moments In Love (12" B Side Idea) | |||
| 2. Tears Out Of A Stone | |||
| 3. Samba #2 | |||
| 4. The Chain Of Chance | |||
| 5. Fairlight-In-The-Being | |||
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| Disc: 3 | |||
| 1. War (Demo 4) | |||
| 2. The Focus Of Satisfaction | |||
| 3. Moments In Love (7" Master Rejected) | |||
| 4. It Stopped | |||
| 5. The Uncertainty Of Syrup | |||
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| Disc: 4 | |||
| 1. Battle | |||
| 2. Beat Box | |||
| 3. The Army Now | |||
| 4. Donna | |||
| 5. Moments In Love | |||
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Product Description
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Unmasked: Forty-one unreleased tracks, remixes and demos from the ZTT archives. The story of how five people came together from completely different angles to pioneer sampling, cut-and-paste pop, futurist production and create the image of a group that was as unforgettable as it was anonymous, recording classics along the way like Close (to the Edit), Beat Box and Moments in Love, before a final, explosive split. "Between now and then, between jest and earnest, between love and war…" A four cd book set, including 36 page booklet, featuring new interviews with the original members of Art Of Noise.
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44 of 45 people found the following review helpful
By Imogen
Format:Audio CD
This is the long-awaited box set of rare, unheard of demos, mixes and remixes from one of the most influential groups of the 1980s - Art of Noise.
The first two CDs - "The Very Start of Noise" and "Found Sounds & Field Trips" - are mainly snatches of what was to be rather than what is. There are, though, several tracks that have had the spit and polish treatment and one feels that all that is missing is one of the fantastic singles covers and then you would have an early Close (to the Edit) (a version 0.9, perhaps?).
The third CD - "Who's Afraid of... Goodbye" - is billed as an alternative version of "Who's Afraid of the Art of Noise" and delivers exactly as promised. Again, this feels as if it could have been a proper release. The CD is finished off with a few tracks created round about the time of The Split.
The fourth CD - "Extended Play" - is a compilation of the various albumettes released during the ZTT years and allows the collector to complete his collection.
There is also a 32-page book that has an introduction to each CD in the collection and then what appears to be verbatim dialogue from a round table session with all five members. Anne Dudley, Trevor Horn, JJ Jeczalik, Gary Langan and Paul Morley all seem to get along rather nicely now and seem to enjoy remembering how all of the tracks came about.
The box set itself is a hard back book with digipack CD holders attached to the inside covers (two at the front and two at the back) which seems extremely well made. The book is very glossy and looks expensive. My only criticism is that it is too big for the CD shelf.... Read more ›
The first two CDs - "The Very Start of Noise" and "Found Sounds & Field Trips" - are mainly snatches of what was to be rather than what is. There are, though, several tracks that have had the spit and polish treatment and one feels that all that is missing is one of the fantastic singles covers and then you would have an early Close (to the Edit) (a version 0.9, perhaps?).
The third CD - "Who's Afraid of... Goodbye" - is billed as an alternative version of "Who's Afraid of the Art of Noise" and delivers exactly as promised. Again, this feels as if it could have been a proper release. The CD is finished off with a few tracks created round about the time of The Split.
The fourth CD - "Extended Play" - is a compilation of the various albumettes released during the ZTT years and allows the collector to complete his collection.
There is also a 32-page book that has an introduction to each CD in the collection and then what appears to be verbatim dialogue from a round table session with all five members. Anne Dudley, Trevor Horn, JJ Jeczalik, Gary Langan and Paul Morley all seem to get along rather nicely now and seem to enjoy remembering how all of the tracks came about.
The box set itself is a hard back book with digipack CD holders attached to the inside covers (two at the front and two at the back) which seems extremely well made. The book is very glossy and looks expensive. My only criticism is that it is too big for the CD shelf.... Read more ›
17 of 18 people found the following review helpful
By Jeremy Mcgee
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
... great deal of unedited Fairlight samples.
Fans of early Art of Noise, who enjoyed Paul Morley's hype, Trevor Horn's production and Anne Dudley's melodies, will quite likely have a fair amount of this material already. Some was only available on cassette, and some on vinyl deleted almost immediately.
However: even for fans, this isn't something you'll want to put into the CD and play from end to end. Better to dip and and dip out of it - perhaps load tracks into the iPod and have them appear at random.
And for non-fans? Start with Daft, or even the China Records period AoN, it's probably more accessible.
Fans of early Art of Noise, who enjoyed Paul Morley's hype, Trevor Horn's production and Anne Dudley's melodies, will quite likely have a fair amount of this material already. Some was only available on cassette, and some on vinyl deleted almost immediately.
However: even for fans, this isn't something you'll want to put into the CD and play from end to end. Better to dip and and dip out of it - perhaps load tracks into the iPod and have them appear at random.
And for non-fans? Start with Daft, or even the China Records period AoN, it's probably more accessible.
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful
By Y. Jones
Format:Audio CD
This is a lovingly and carefully put together collection of memoirs and snippets from the editing room floor. All five members of Art of Noise have contributed to this, and it is a pleasure to see that JJ Jeczalik and Gary Langan have given their input too, perhaps indicating that they've decided to put their past differences with ZTT behind them? This CD is informal and provides an interesting insight into life behind The Band Without A Face. A must - have for Art of Noise fans everywhere.
2 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
ZTT release a 4 CD worth of demos and alternate versions of "(Who's Afraid Of?) The Art Of Noise!". There are some brilliant mixes that Horn refused to put out as singles. I can only find fault with 4 things on this box set, the first is it doesn't include all the tracks that were on "Bashful", the second is that "Beat Box Diversions 3 & 4" (that appeared on the "NME Department Of Entertainment" cassette)isn't included although "Diversion 3" by itself is. The third fault is me being picky, the tracks claiming to be from "The Tortoise And The Hare" isn't how they appeared, as some of the mixes aren't the actual ones on the cassette. My final thing I found wrong with it was... Why wasn't there a DVD documentary about The Art of Noise on it? Apart from that it is a great listen. This package shows that Art of Noise were a far better band than Frankie, their demos run rings around any FGTH 12". Let's hope that the archives can be raided from the China Records sessions, including a full live album of "In Visible Silence"
Top marks!
Top marks!
1 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
This retrospective set of four CDs with all the historical recordings of the group is essential for anyone who is interested in modern music, electro-acoustic music, of course, what has been called concrete music, noise music, and probably some more names of the same kind. They represent the impact of modern technology, microphones, samplers, virtual editors, sound processing software, and many other computerized digitalized technologies, onto the composition process and onto the very nature and definition of music. In this case, Art of Noise keeps, most of the time, drums and percussions to create a rhythmic universe behind their music. But the whole process is to create rhythmic patterns with elements that were not originally rhythmic in essence. That's the first and probably most striking element of Art of Noise's music: its rich rhythmicity. The second element is of course at the level of the musical objects they use to compose their musical universe. They use as raw materials all kinds of instruments, all kinds of voices and all kinds of recorded noises. Then they sample, edit and process them all into a homogenized fabric dictated or just woven by the rhythmic patterns we have already spoken of. The most surprising elements are first the voices that actually say words and the meaning of these repeated words is elaborated, expanded or distorted, by the musical environment, and second the extreme musicality each sound no matter how noisy or un-musical they may have been originally. This music then represents a tremendous social change in the comprehension we have, both individually and collectively, of our modern world.... Read more ›
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