Label: ZTT
Catalog#: ZTT 201 CD
Format: 4 x CD
Country: UK
Released: 07 Aug 2006
Genre: Electronic
Style: Abstract, Experimental
Audio: Flac (Image+Cue+Log)/MP3 CBR320
Size: 305Mb+241Mb+271Mb+401Mb/122Mb+98Mb+113Mb+156Mb
Tracklisting:
CD1 The Very Start of Noise
01 Beat Box (One Made Earlier) (2:18)
02 Once Upon A Lime (3:21)
03 War (Demo 2) (1:27)
04 Close To The Edge (2:19)
05 Confession (1:02)
06 Moments In Love (7:52)
07 Sign Of Relief (1:27)
08 Who's Afraid Of Scale? (4:36)
09 So What Happens Now? (Take 2) (4:23)
10 The Subject Has Moved Left (1:43)
11 It's Not Fair (4:27)
12 Close To The Edge (Ruff Mix) (5:54)
13 A Time For Fear (Who's Afraid?) (4:33)
14 Moments In Bed (6:11)
15 Untitled (0:55)
CD2 Found Sound and Field Trips
01 Moments In Love (12" B Side Idea) (3:10)
02 Tears Out Of A Stone (2:56)
03 Samba #2 (0:39)
04 The Chain Of Chance (4:36)
05 Fairlight-In-The-Being (4:37)
06 Diversions 3 (3:53)
07 Close (To Being Compiled) (3:47)
08 Diversions 5 (3:46)
09 Damn It All! (1:42)
10 Structure (1:13)
11 The Angel Reel: Hymn 1 (Take 2) (0:36)
12 The Angel Reel: Hymn 3 (1:20)
13 The Angel Reel: Fairground (0:43)
14 And What Have You Done With My Body, God? (4:40)
15 Klimax (1:48)
16 Who Knew? (2:36)
CD3 Who’s Afraid of… Goodbye?
01 War (Demo 4) (4:39)
02 The Focus Of Satisfaction (11:01)
03 Moments In Love (7" Master Rejected) (3:44)
04 It Stopped (4:27)
05 The Uncertainty Of Syrup (1:21)
06 The Long Hello (4:34)
07 The Vacuum Divine (0:47)
08 The Ambassador's Reel: Beat Box (3:54)
09 The Ambassador's Reel: Medley (10:56)
10 The Ambassador's Reel: Oobly (1:20)
11 Goodbye Art Of Noise (0:37)
12 Moments In Love (Untitled Edit) (1:06)
CD4 Extended Play
01 Battle (0:27)
02 Beat Box (4:49)
03 The Army Now (2:03)
04 Donna (1:45)
05 Moments In Love (5:11)
06 Bright Noise (0:05)
07 Flesh In Armour (1:24)
08 Comes And Goes (1:19)
09 Moment In Love (1:27)
10 That Was Close — Diversion Eight / Diversion Two / Closest / Close-Up / Close (To The Edit) / Closed (20:44)
11 Moments In Love / Moments In Love (Beaten) (14:28)
12 Love Beat (5:16)
13 In Case We Sneezed (0:31)
14 A Time To Hear (Who’s Listening) (3:32)
15 (Do) Donna (Do) (3:12)
16 Battle Outtakes (0:25)
Credits:
Artwork By — Steve Gibson
Compilation Producer — Pete Gardiner
Compilation Producer [Assistant] — Vicky Ball
Compiled By [And Curated By] — Ian Peel
Edited By [Additional 2006 Edit], Producer [Additional 2006 Production] — Anne Dudley (tracks: 1-11, 1-13, 2-1, 2-5, 2-7, 3-4)
Mastered By [Digital Remaster] — Dennis Smith (3)
Written-By, Recorded By, Engineer, Producer — Art Of Noise, The
Notes:
4 CD hardbound digi-book set including 56 tracks, 41 previously unreleased with 36 page booklet containing track-by-track commentary by all five original members.
CD1: The Very Start of Noise — early demos and tests.
CD2: Found Sound and Field Trips — experimental recordings.
CD3: Who’s Afraid of… Goodbye? — alternate recordings from the Who's Afraid album, and final ZTT-era tracks.
CD4: Extended Play — rare EPs, including Into Battle (tracks 4-1 to 4-9), That Was Close (track 4-10) and The Tortoise And The Hare (tracks 4-11 to 4-13).
Retail release: 7th August 2006. Copies were available to order via ztt.com from 19th July 2006, and shipped shortly after.
A promo sampler CD was bundled with ztt.com orders placed before 21st August 2006.
Art Of Noise were: Anne Dudley, Trevor Horn, JJ Jeczalik, Gary Langan and Paul Morley.
"This Ars Nova edition is number six in Zang Tumb Tuum's artefact series, previously hidden away as number 102 in the Incidental Series."
Book foreword (edited):
"1983 to '85, when these early sessions took place, was an intense period. The finished recordings have become ubiquitous — and are regularly re-sampled and referenced by artists as diverse as Janet Jackson and The Prodigy — but the demos, alternative mixes and studio experiments, the very genesis of the Art Of Noise, have never been heard since. Did they even exist? It was thought not. After all, Trevor Horn has a reputation for not saving anything if a recording session doesn't work out — if you change course, erase the tapes and move on. Don't look back.
But Zang Tuum Tumb went on a search. Into the vaults of London's recording studios — Sarm East, Sarm West, Angel Studios, Utopia and Mayfair, all of which hosted these early sessions. Tomb Raiders of the Lost Ark, Zang Tumb Tuum was on a mission… and struck gold. The complete Art Of Noise sessions, 1983 to 1985, as presented here, for the first time, never before heard or released."
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