Daft (Universal) by The Art of Noise (CD, Oct-1998, Universal Distribution)

Album Features
UPC:	601215319521
Artist:	The Art of Noise
Format:	CD
Release Year:	1998
Record Label:	Universal Distribution
Genre:	Experimental Rock, Rock & Pop

Track Listing
1. Love
2. Time for Fear, A (Who's Afraid)
3. Beat Box (Diversion One)
4. Army Now, The
5. Donna
6. Memento
7. How to Kill
8. Realisation
9. Who's Afraid (Of the Art of Noise)
10. Moments in Love
11. Bright Noise
12. Flesh in Armour
13. Comes and Goes
14. Snapshot
15. Close (To the Edit)
16. (Three Fingers Of) Love

Details
Playing Time:	61 min.
Producer:	Trevor Horn, Art of Noise
Distributor:	Universal Distribution
Recording Type:	Studio
Recording Mode:	Stereo
SPAR Code:	n/a

Album Notes
This collection contains selections from WHO'S AFRAID OF THE ART OF NOISE, MOMENTS IN LOVE, and INTO BATTLE.Art Of Noise: Gary Langan, Anne Dudley, J.J. Jeczalik.For three years Anne Dudley, J.J. Jeczalik, Gary Langan and Trevor Horn endlessly remixed a collection of found sounds, rhythms, melodies and thematic motifs into a number of releases for Horn's ZTT Records. After the other three split from Horn in 1985, themes from these recordings constantly reappeared in their work, but it was not until 1998 that these original recordings were reissued on CD.The 16-song DAFT contains almost all of the groundbreaking 1983 EP INTO BATTLE, the wellspring for all future AoN projects, along with several stray singles and a good-sized chunk of 1984's WHO'S AFRAID OF THE ART OF NOISE. Among the brilliant tracks are the dreamily lush "Moments In Love," the bizarre vocal cut-ups of "The Army Now" and the influential hits "Beat Box" and "Close (To the Edit)." This CD, both avant-garde and accessible, is the purest example of montage in popular music.

Editorial Reviews
...a snapshot of the troupe at its zenith...
CMJ (19990201)

5 stars out of 5 - [T]he ultimate anthology of wanton jazz and cut'n'pastiche pop...
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