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Art of Noise, Close To The Edit-30 Years on
Phoenix Lazarus
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Exactly thirty years on, who else recalls what a brilliantly original and surreal record (and video) this was?
Art Of Noise-Close To The Edit (1985)
Art Of Noise-Close To The Edit (1985)
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It remained in the charts for quite some time too (by '80s chart standards)
Moments In Love and Beatbox were also very fine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iH33RIfi2KI
(still hurts to write " the late Rik Mayall")
they are doing a similar thing to the frankie box
there's been piles of ZTT reissues the last few years, it's been great to hear stuff after so long, but it's a bit of a cash in as they reissue loads of stuff you already have with a few new bits on loads of different releases
Unfortunately it got stolen at uni with all my other stuff and I never replaced it.
Also got their compilation album 'Daft' on SACD, which has been remixed & remastered in 5.1 Surround and Stereo Sound by Trevor Horn.
Everytime I listen to what's doing the rounds on Radio 1 I cringe at how it all sounds the same. And that is not just me getting old, it really does all sound the same. Its seems everything that gets played now just uses the same bag of tricks taken from You-Tube tutorial videos. All of it utter sh*te, made by idiot DJ's or "producers" wanting to get rich from the most easy formula possible.
Whatever people think to their latest album, I couldn't help but agree with the Prodigy's savage attack on modern EDM culture for the reasons I've stated in the last paragraph. Which funnily enough kinda leads back to Close To The Edit with Firestarter famously sampling the "hey!" off the track.
Too true. Mostly talentless morons, the same kind of people who take pre-recorded sets to a club gig and pretend to 'DJ'. It's become an industry of fakes, wannabes and here today gone tomorrows as far as modern producers and DJ's are concerned.