..back in the days, when this tune dropped, E-V-E-R-Y B-Boy/B-Girl was bangin & breakin to this!!!!!....you could NOT escape it!!!....& to this day, the beat is STILL heat!!!!!!🔥🔥🔥🔥💯💥😎🤘🏽🤙🏽🖖🏽
I remember buying this 12 (Into Battle With The Art Of Noise) in 1983 when I was 15 & I was so confused because the record clerk said here’s the 12inch with that song Beat Box your looking for, I told him, ummmmm, that doesn’t look like a 12inch single sir, he said why? I said because, where’s the remixes at? He said, hey kid, this is a 12inch single according to are Tower Records import sheet & I said, well, why are there so many other songs listed on this Vinly, it looks like an album😂😂😂😂 & what’s up with the renaissance painting artwork on the sleeve😂😂😂😂….I was so confused by this 12inch because, let’s face it, ART OF NOISE kinda changed the way the 80’s created 12inch singles for sure….anyway that’s my little story & oh yeah, there a little song on the 12inch called MOMENTS IN LOVE, talk about a WTF is that moment 🤘🏾😲🤘🏾……
Exactly 40 years ago, this beauty emerged. I first heard it on the radio. WCLD in Cleveland, Mississippi, a Delta soul station. It scared the hell out of me. I would bury myself under the sheets as the strange new world unveiled itself to me. I would go watch Breakin' at some small in Pensacola. When I saw the dance battle at Radiotron, I had to discover its name. I watched the credits, but since not knowing any of the music, I assumed it was something called BeatBox by The Art of Noise. Asked for the cassette for Xmas 1984, and received what was actually their second release, Who's Afraid of, and when the second track arrived, I recognized it immediately. No other moment like it. Wore out the tape, and started collecting their vinyl. Went to London with my grandmother and sister in 1986. Picked up a huge number of records. My grandma sweet talked the customs guy, and we rolled right on through without paying duty. 😎 In hindsight, it is more and experiment than anything else. I believe the very first song to be comprised of 100% digital samples. It was the future. Raise a glass.
Shortly after appearing at 0:56 in this video, Peter Gabriel bought a Fairlight and began to imitate the Art Of Noise. The resulting album "So" was given it's name due to the short sample time of the Fairlight, it's intended title was "So what happens now?"
Still my favorite of all the artisanal noises, though "Il Pleure (At the Turn of the Century)" from The Seduction of Claude DeBussy is right up there... Thanks for so many years of so many incredible tracks!
The first time I heard this song, some N.Y.C. Break dancers were dancing to it in '83. I asked the name of the song and ran to the record store to buy it.
Sing along with the Art of Noise: (don’t be afraid) you get to move on, see, do what I say do this, don’t move look lively when i say say this, shut up see, do what I say, look lively
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