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WilliamK · Post by **WilliamK** » Thu Aug 19, 2004 1:00 am

ianweb123 wrote:Sorry WillimK a bit OT there

Nahh, I don't mind.

Wk

Lunatique · Post by **Lunatique** » Thu Aug 19, 2004 1:09 pm

My younger brother and I are huge AoN fans, and we've been collecting their stuff for over 15 years now. Between us, we probably have everything they've ever released.

Below the Waste is my favorite of the older AoN sound, and Seduction of Claude Debussy is IMO the most brilliant electronic album recorded to date.

Out of my electronic heroes like Kraftwerk, Yello, AoN, YMO..etc, Art of Noise has the widest range and the most sophisticated sound--and that, in no small amount, is because of Ann Dudely's classically trained orchestrations.

Villy · Post by **Villy** » Thu Aug 19, 2004 1:17 pm

One of the Art of noise guys was my tutor in the university, thats basically one of the main reasons i joined that course.
Nice music that still sounds great to my ears.

dekky · Post by **dekky** » Thu Aug 19, 2004 1:27 pm

there is a new "tribute album" out

http://www.irislight.demon.co.uk/featured.htm

uncleruby · Post by **uncleruby** » Thu Aug 19, 2004 2:35 pm

This old man saw them play in Boston with P.I.L.
it was wicked!
I still hear DJ's mixing in "Moments in Love" here and there....one of the best sex songs ever!

LBN · Post by **LBN** » Thu Aug 19, 2004 3:28 pm

I have a clip of them performing on Top of the Pops as back-up to Tom Jones singing "Kiss." I think JJJ was "playing" the Fairlight's computer keyboard and Anne was playing a piano. What a funny combination.

JJJ was the master of the Fairlight. Anyone know what he's up to today? Making sample CDs?

xoxos · Post by **xoxos** » Thu Aug 19, 2004 9:12 pm

always seemed kind of soulless to me, eg. take away their medium and ambient cheesy mileu, they're nothing underneath except a sparse arrangement of hackneyed smooth jazz progressions. it's a sad thing that the couple of juxtapositions they presented were even considered novel.

on a track like 'close' where the medium is strong to the track, for sure, but otherwise it's like trying to chill to someone coming up with music to sell drugs to baby boom americans.. "yeah, we get it, the piano sounds like sleazy smooth jazz in a big airy hall, the fifteenth time too, f**k that it's got a sample of a baby burp playing bass"

yawn.

but that's what you get for flogging the new medium isn't it. maybe noise is sound that hasn't learned to stop struggling for attention yet, and that's why it's noise.

Sielsynth · Post by **Sielsynth** » Thu Aug 19, 2004 9:39 pm

@xoxos: Does this mean you're not a fan?

Art of Noise!