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Art of Noise: "daft"

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Artist: Art of Noise
Title: "daft"
Released: 1984
Label: ZTT Records
Time: 61:20
Producer(s): See Artists ...
Appears with:
Category: Pop/Rock
Rating: ******.... (6/10)
Media type: CD
Purchase date:  2001.02.09
Price in €: 14,46
Web address: www.ztt.com/artistpages/AON_expand.html

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[1] Love (Dudley/Horn/Jeczalik/Langan/Morley) - 7:00
[2] Time for Fear [Who's Afraid] (Dudley/Horn/Jeczalik/Langan/Morley) - 4:44
[3] Beat Box [Diversion 1] (Dudley/Horn/Jeczalik/Langan/Morley) - 8:51
[4] Army Now (Dudley/Horn/Jeczalik/Langan/Morley) - 2:02
[5] Donna (Dudley/Horn/Jeczalik/Langan/Morley) - 1:44
[6] Memento (Dudley/Horn/Jeczalik/Langan/Morley) - 2:12
[7] How to Kill (Dudley/Horn/Jeczalik/Langan/Morley) - 2:42
[8] Relisation (Dudley/Horn/Jeczalik/Langan/Morley) - 1:41
[9] Who's Afraid [Of the Art of Noise] (Dudley/Horn/Jeczalik/Langan/Morley) - 4:21
[10] Moments in Love (Dudley/Horn/Jeczalik/Langan/Morley) - 10:16
[11] Bright Noise (Dudley/Horn/Jeczalik/Langan/Morley) - 0:06
[12] Flesh in Armour (Dudley/Horn/Jeczalik/Langan/Morley) - 1:23
[13] Comes and Goes (Dudley/Horn/Jeczalik/Langan/Morley) - 1:18
[14] Snapshot (Dudley/Horn/Jeczalik/Langan/Morley) - 2:33
[15] Close [To the Edit] (Dudley/Horn/Jeczalik/Langan/Morley) - 5:25
[16] [Three Fingers of] Love (Dudley/Horn/Jeczalik/Langan/Morley) - 4:43

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Anne Dudley - Electronic Equipment, Composer, Producer
Gary Langan - Electronic Equipment, Composer, Producer
Paul Morley - Electronic Equipment, Art Direction, Producer

Trevor Horn - Electronic Equipment
Paul Morley - Package Design
A.J. Barratt - Photography
Chris Welch - Liner Notes

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Anne Dudley, Gary Langan, and Paul Morley were members of producer Trevor Horn's in-house studio band in the early '80s before they formed Art of Noise, a techno-pop group whose music was an amalgam of studio gimmickry, tape splicing, and synthesized beats. The Art of Noise took material from a variety of sources: hip-hop, rock, jazz, R&B, traditional pop, found sounds, and noise all worked their way into the group's distinctly post-modern soundscapes. Dudley was the center of the group, having arranged and produced material for Frankie Goes to Hollywood, ABC, and Paul McCartney before forming the Art of Noise. The trio signed with Trevor Horn's ZTT label, releasing their first EP, Into Battle with the Art of Noise, in 1983. The following year, the group released the full-length (Who's Afraid Of?) The Art of Noise!, which featured the hit single "Close (To the Edit)."
After "Close (To the Edit)," the group parted ways with Horn and ZTT, releasing In Visible Silence in 1986; the album included the U.K. Top Ten hit "Peter Gunn," which featured Duane Eddy on guitar. Re-works of the Art of Noise, an album of remixes and live tracks, was released that same year. In No Sense? Nonsense!, released in 1987, saw the band experimenting with orchestras and choirs, as well as horns and rock bands. The next year, the Art of Noise released a greatest-hits collection, The Best of the Art of Noise, which featured their collaboration with Tom Jones on Prince's "Kiss."

Below the Waste (1990) captured the band experimenting with world music; it received a lukewarm critical and commercial reception. The following year, a low-key remix album directed by Killing Joke's Youth called The Ambient Collection appeared. Later in the year, the Art of Noise broke up. Dudley eventually worked with Killing Joke's Jaz Coleman and Phil Collins. Horn and Dudley reunited in 1999 for a new album, The Seduction of Claude Debussy.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All-Music Guide



The place for Art of Noise neophytes to start, Daft collects Who's Afraid of the Art of Noise and Into Battle With the Art of Noise, along with two reworkings of "Moments in Love" from the original U.K. release of that song, to make a fantastic hour's worth of music. If anything, a single or two aside, Daft beats out the official Best Of compilation by a mile. Having aged superbly with time, AON's early works sound all the more advanced and of-the-moment, a testament especially to Trevor Horn's excellent production and Anne Dudley's gripping arrangements. Further entertainment comes from the liner notes, which aren't merely state-of-the-art 1984 album design but an apparently barbed attack on the further incarnation of the band from one Otto Flake. The exact seriousness of this is up to the reader. As for the "Moments in Love" versions, both are gentler and elegant than the already lush original, and none the worse for that, though "(Three Fingers Of) Love" does have rather disconcerting sound effects added to it.

Ned Raggett, All-Music Guide



Between 1983 and 1984, the Art Of Noise was everything its moniker suggested -- a unit that assimilated rock, jazz, hip-hop, found sounds and noise into unique, undefined whole. During this peak, two-year tenure on the ZTT label, AON released some of the most startling and experimental singles in pop music history. The 16-track compilation Daft is a snapshot of the troupe at its zenith. Containing selections (singles and album tracks) from the crucial recordings Who's Afraid Of The Art Of Noise, Moments In Love and Into Battle, the collection jolts from serene and blissful ("Moments In Love") to groove-inflicted and funky ("Beat Box") to downright demented ("The Army Now"). But each audio diversion was a brilliant idea, effectively influencing the direction of every genre it mimicked. Daft may represent only a small fraction of the group's history, but it recaps the years for which the band will be remembered.

M. Tye Comer - Feb 01, 1999
CMJ New Music Report Issue: 603

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