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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
Warning - not quite what it seems, 2 Sep 2006
It was a painful and expensive business being an ZTT-era Art of Noise fan in the 1980s. The label's policy of issuing loads of confusingly named remixes meant that you didn't know exactly what tracks and remixes you were getting until you got the record home and slapped it on the turntable. This CD/DVD package is no exception. The version of "Beat Box" here is the same version as the one on "Daft" and "Who's Afraid", not the wonderfully screwed-up version that appeared on the original 12" of Into Battle. Shame, shame, shame. For that, you'll have to check out the new box set "And What Have You Done With My Body, God", although that supposedly definitive 4CD collection doesn't include "Close-Up" or "Close-Up (Hop)", which are featured here as bonus tracks in all their glory. The DVD of Promo videos is a nice addition, although naturally, the original video for Close (to the Edit) is actually listed on the case as "Beat Box Pop Promo". Just to keep us on our toes, like.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
A flashback in the past, 16 Dec 2003
A little masterpiece dated 1983 from a great band.
This CD, re-issue from the omonimous EP of 20 years ago, is a concentration of the real Art Of Noise's musical phylosophy: make music with various rumors.
This CD is highly reccomended to whom wants to know the real Art Of Noise essence.
Only a little note: the track Beatbox enclosed in this CD is different from the vinyl version, as it was taken from the album "Who's Afraid Of The Art Of Noise".
The vinyl version of "Into Battle" has a primordial version of Beatbox, not included in this new CD+DVD edition.
A superb DVD complete this masterpiece, with four videoclips and a detailed discography.Into Battle is a "must have" for all the fans.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
Born on a different planet, 30 Jan 2006
When this e.p. first came out in c. 1984 it was a lightning bolt to all that heard it. It challenged you. At that time, the only music really breaking new ground was hip hop, so "Into Battle.." often nestled amongst the 12"'s of Profile Records, Def Jam and the like. The hip hop fraternity welcomed it because it was great for playing around with on the decks and it had a legacy stretching to Trevor Horn (ABC special remix) and his work on "Duck Rock" - a seminal, eclectic album under Malcolm Mclaren's name but full of so much more than just his cheeky chat.
"Into Battle..." was hard to understand, an album made on Fairlight samplers that were the size of a room??? What were samplers and how did they work? We all womdered? How things change.
There is little to match the crunchy bass-kick and snare of "Beatbox" - unlike any other drum sounds of the era. At times the e.p. sounds a touch basic and naiive, but it was blueprinting at work.
"Moments In Love" is an epic, with tinges of Laurie Anderson's "O Superman" about it - but so much more romantic and casting a longer musical shadow.
AON showed the music industry a way to go, and now sampled music is so prevalent it's hard to tell what's real anymore.
The ZTT label on which this e.p. was issued made packaging and alternate versions a game to drive any collector mad - endless remixes, strangely titled, extra series and the like, as well Paul Morleys artful, superior sounding wording. If you didn't get it, well, you didn't get it.
The power of Horn, Morley, J.J., Dudley and Langan's work was without peer at the time........perhaps that is still the case.......... PURE BRITISH ECCENTRICITY AT ITS BEST! BUY NOW.
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