Samehere, I bought Into Battle with the Art Of Noise mini-lp in 1983 (still have it to this day in 2024)…..Art Of Noise & Kraftwerk are my starting point into electronic music,…what a great time for music discovery for me at 15years of age in 1983, I lived at the record stores😂😂😂😂
@@wattage2007 Trevor Horn & Chris Blackwell (the owner of Island Records & Bob Marley’s producer) spent around $70,000 on a Synclavier Keyboard for the Grace Jones SLAVE TO THE RHYTHM album & Trevor said he only used it 4 or 5 times on that album & never used it again😂😂😂😂….yep, Art Of Noise & Ztt Records had some serious tech in there studio, no wonder Paul McCartney, Thomas Dolby, Howard Jones, Tears For Fears, Godley & Creme, Sting etc etc etc…,did a lot of pre-production work there…
Yes, three Fairlight's, a PPG Wave 2.x, Memorymoog, LinnDrum, Friendchip SRC, Lexicon, Klark Teknik and AMS outboard and a Soundcraft Series 2 mixer (and possibly more). Not a cheap (or reliable!) setup.
The appreciation lies in the fact that these songs were manually arranged, carefully orchestrated sounds, using very early "analog based" computer technology... not automatically generated like today's digital music. SO it still has soul and raw energy, missing from much of today's sterile music.
@@stevecarter8810 Sure... but compared to today's Automation (using Apple for instance) the Fairlight is a comparatively "manual" assembly/compilation process.
You might be surprised how much work goes into today's music production. To make music "interesting", pretty much every imaginable aspect of sound is manipulated. Although not always, and like before, music making is more than just pressing a button. Just like with other types and genres of art, if you invest in learning about it, you can appreciate it a little more
80s authentic brilliance at its finest. Europeans guys just experimenting and creating beats and Hip hop gravitated to there sound. This was a huge hit at the height of breakdancing in 84-85. This was an amazing jam to breakdance to. Kraftwerk were also influential in 80s breakdance culture. These guys rule!
Actually it was the opposite. Groups like Art of Noise was more of contemporary disco. The euro disco started by Giorgio moroder and Donna Sommers. The experimenting in this is more closer to hip hop experimenting and scratching. Kraftwerk. Their influence came from the disco era. Giorgio Moroder. And it's because of the funky sound that's more closer to Black music as far as beats. Is the reason these two bands and a few more of Europe became popular in hip hop community. But the same can be said about Detroit techno, Chicago House and New York electro funk having and influence on 80s Europe electronic music. But even those roots can be found in disco. Stevie Wonder, Blonde etc
Like you said they were influenced by Kraftwerk. Even though this song was influenced more closer to hip hop scratching they were still experimenting and creating a different kind of sound that breakdance culture gravitated to. They're European guys dressed in costumes and masks that made there mark in hip hop. They were non hip hop guys like Kraftwerk who both created anthems in breakdancing is pretty amamzing.
@peterschmitz6446 I know, Kraftwerk were the originals. I mentioned AON was influenced by Kraftwerk. My comments had nothing to do with comparing them.This Is a AON video. My comments were about this song being a breakdance anthem, as I mentioned Kraftwerk did the same to give them props.
@@Kellen-d6z I was too breakdancing to that song and other song from them in 1984 in Montréal, Québec. And I didnt know about synth ( I was 12) so I didnt understand how they were making those sounds till I bought my first keyboard magasine in 1986.
This the was the B side of Close to the Edge, I bought this single in 84. Nothing sounded like that before, heavy industrial sound. Definitely ahead of time 👍
@davidbull7210 yep, I'm aware 😂😂😂 I've been wondering about that since I bought the album back in 1983, I was 16 & my friends & I talked about that line alot....but CLOSE TO THE EDIT is the true name because of all the editing of magnetic tape with razor blades to complete the track,....
@@popnfresh2928 It was a play on Yes's album Close to the Edge. Trevor Horn produced some Yes songs which featured unique samples which he then used as the basis for his Art Of Noise project at ZTT records.
@@wattage2007 right you are, I can't tell you how confusing it was for me trying to figure out all the different versions of BEAT BOX being played on American Radio & then hearing a song on radio that sounded similar to Beat Box & then the DJ on radio said that was CLOSE TO THE EDGE by Art Of Noise, I remember my little brother saying BULLSHIT that was a remix of BEAT BOX😂😂😂😂, then we heard that very similar dramatic guitar sample thingy on OWNER OF A LONELY HEART track from YES & I had a friend say, dude there ripping samples off from those Art Of Noise people, i/we, went thur all of this confusion for weeks, only to finally figure out all this shit is produced by Trevor Horn & his Art Of Noise team 😂😂😂😂...80's were so much fun
@@wattage2007 not true, J.J. Jezalik (Art Of Noise Keyboardist & Fairlight Programmer/Player) said many time in the late 80's, HE ALREADY WORE THE T-SHIRT & NOW ITS TIME FOR HIM TO GO A DIFFERENT ROUTE IN HIS LIFE), he became a music teacher at University for many years....he also had a small music outfit called ART OF SILENCE that's pretty intriguing, more of a lo-fi electronic vibe....
THREE Fairlight CMIs (i suppose the IIx model), a freaking Memorymoog AND a PPG Wave 2. I swear, this still makes me drool even 40 years later. Modern DAWs don't give me the same feeling.
Most of these Synths are avaiable now for little Money in a digitalitzedVersion (Arturia Labs and others.) No one needs this Hardware Stuff nowadays.(Maybe for boasting)....
@@peterschmitz6446 It's not the same. Software is like touching an instrument that is behind a glass screen. I am a physical being and prefer to physically interact with an instrument.
EPIC...🔥🔥🔥🔥 This song inspired a GENERATION of urban Hip Hop kids...used to be my FAVORITE joint to pop/breakdance to waaaay back in the days because of the instant ADRENALINE SURGE that would hit me as soon as that bass dropped...💯
*"This song inspired a GENERATION of urban Hip Hop kids.." LMAO!* Let's not get carried away. If anything, this song was inspired by a generation of Hip Hop urban kids (culture). People liked to breakdance to it, DJs put it on their mixtapes, songs even sampled it, to that loose extent that might be considered "inspiration" by an esoteric few but culturally, NO collective generation of urban kids ran around saying this song inspired them ESPECIALLY since Hip-Hop was already in existence at least a decade before 1983 and this song has shaped virtually nothing about the culture since. 🤣
Looking back, it's like watching the future strangely. Everything seems much more "intelligent" and civilized than it is now looking back at it. So artistic and forward thinking. Amazing!
From what I see 2x Fairlight… + the rest of PPG's. With that, a small town could be founded, with its streets, electric lighting, a small chapel in the center, and a pub at the end of the main street.
@0:38 something about that part when break dancing back then, used to amp me up to really get into it lol. Top 10 breaking dancing song of all time imo.
Here in America, we didn’t get live shows of Art Of Noise like they did for the U.K., so, for 8 years or more (during the non-internet age of the 80’s), my friends & I, never knew what they looked like, we just had Album Art of there records for almost a decade😂😂😂😂….only Trevor Horn (who was part of or the producer of AON), was the person we recognized, by way of his Video Killed The Radio Star performance on MTV from his Buggles band, besides that AON was a complete mystery, we only knew of there mask they wore, drove us young kids nuts 😂😂😂😂😂
Not knowing what they looked like was part of the schtick to start with. Once Anne Dudley won her Oscar and ever other music award it was a bit pointless hiding
Yes indeed, your 100% correct, I believe that was Paul Morley's idea, as he was the brilliant writer who came up with many of there song names, album cover art & album cover wordplay & even the name Art Of Noise was his idea if I remember that correctly...the mystery of there identities & how they created there music was of Paramount Importance in an already highly competitive music industry in the 80's
Honestly I had no idea there was an actual band behind this or that they did live performances. I used to think this was one of Trevor Horn's studio creations. Really interesting to see and hear.
This is the studio feed rather than the broadcast footage. Do you also have the studio feed or recordings of the other Art of Noise parts from this episode of The Tube?
Obviously Anne Dudley on her infamous PPG (Anne and her bells...) and Fairlight. And JJ Jeczalik on Fairlight (I can see his glasses under his mask), but who's on the Mixer? Is that Langhan?
4:00 JJ signals "The audience is looking really bored of this repetitive piece, time to finish it before they start throwing stuff at our Fairlights which aren't insured."
The first Steps with Sampler Music. Today you can do that Stuff with your Laptop (maybe not live). Watch the Girls with their 80ties Hairdo and the Clothes.....
Thanks for this, love this track and the band. Although Paul Morley including himself as part of the line up was a joke. Only person in music more useless to a band than Bez.
Let us salute Morley, who transcends being a pretentious git by turning it into a boring act of post-modernism in itself. I hope he brewed the Fairlight wranglers a decent cuppa.
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