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I have been dipping into this book recently and in it is a chapter about ZTT Records while tonight i was looking for some blaxplotation stuff and noticed on this soul website that the Art Of Noise's name was listed!!!

SOUL ARTISTS: A-Z
Blue Eyed Soul
The return of WWRL - 1600 AM (100% Pure Soul)
The Chitlin Circuit
The Past Revisited
DOO WOP
THE FUNK BOX

WHAT IT IS! FUNKY SOUL AND RARE GROOVES
Jazz-Funk (boooooooooo!!! :lol:)
What Is Acid Jazz?

4 Kings of R& B - Jerry Butler, Lloyd Price, Ben E. King, Gene Chandler
5 Royales
Alicia Keys
Angel Rissoff
Angela Johnson
Anson Funderburgh & Rockets
Archie Bell and the Drells
Aretha Franklin
Art of Noise
Barbara Mason
Barry White
Beach Boys
Beah Richards
Benny Latimore
Betty Wright
Bettye Lavette
Big Jay McNeeley
Billy Griffin
Billy Paul
Billy Preston
Billy Stewart
Billy Cobham
Brian Augar
Boo Boo Davis
Bro' Jack McDuff
Buckshot LeFounque
Black Ivory
Bloodstone
Bobby Womack
Bo Diddley
Brass Construction
Buddy Miles
Brenda Holloway
Candi Staton
Cab Calloway
Calvanes
Charles Earland
Carl Sims
Chairmen of the Board
Chambers Brothers
Chantels
Charles Earland
Charles Wright
The Chi-Lites,
Chick Willis
Chuck Berry
Chuck Brown and the Soul Searchers
Curtis Mayfield
Cooly's Hot Box
Cymande
Dawn Silva
Dean Francis
Defunkt
The MIGHTY, MIGHTY DELLS

so rather than just being the people behind the dragnet theme they are quite an important project in the history of not only dance music but black / urban / funk music too. true???

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roots of the battle--by John Book
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Art Of Noise originally started in 1982 as a way to combat the British pop charts, just as George Clinton wanted to steer the world away from the doldrums in the 70's. At the time, music was in an unusual state. New wave was still hip on both sides of the Atlantic, but in different forms. It was 1980-1982, and music fans were all disco'd out, and punk was dead. The good funk was almost non-existent, and heavy metal fans tried to cope in a Led Zeppelin-less world.

Art Of Noise originally began as an in-studio project by producer Trevor Horn. Horn was the last vocalist to join progressive rock group Yes before they split up in 1980. Along with friend Geoff Downes, they created the group The Buggles', known for their song "Video Killed The Radio Star". In the early 80's, Horn's production became a signature sound, as recognizable as his trademarked round glasses and sly grin. He would use the best and latest in keyboards to create some of the most lush recordings of its time. It was "artificial", but the choral and orchestral sounds he was able to create would soon be copied by every other producer in the business. But it was three projects that would turn the idea of Art Of Noise into full blooded reality.

Horn's first major hit as a producer as ABC's "The Look of Love", and their album The Lexicon Of Love (Mercury Records; 1982) hit the Top 10 in the U.S. and England. In 1982, ex-Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren asked Horn to produce an album of music taken from all parts of the world, from South Africa to Alabama to the streets of New York City. The first song from this project was "Buffalo Gals", which also featured a duo of New York radio DJ's who called themselves The World Famous Supreme Team. Many argue that "Buffalo Gals" became the song that took rap music out of the ghetto for the very first time and into mainstream America. (Jazz artist Herbie Hancock went on record to say that it was "Buffalo Gals" where he first heard someone "scratch" a record.) Horn and McLaren would create the classic Duck Rock album (Island; 1983). If anything, the album has become a historical landmark of days gone by, before hip hop on the radio and TV became controversial. On Duck Rock, Horn used two musicians named Anne Dudley and Jonathan "J.J." Jeczalik, and engineer Gary Langan. He would later use them for Yes' big comeback album of 1983, 90125 (Atco; 1993). Yes came back in a big way with their #1 song "Owner Of A Lonely Heart", and what made people take notice to was the mechanized beats of the intro, and the unusual bursts of horns during the songs bridge. These sounds would soon produce some of the most interesting songs of the 80's, an audio experiment in the making. The Art Of Noise had begun.

Art Of Noise - Close To The Edit (1984)

 

Art Of Noise - Moments In Love (1985)

 

Art Of Noise - Beat Box (1985)

 

Art Of Noise - Peter Gunn (1986)

 

Art Of Noise - Dragnet (1987)

Can't understand why Art of Noise would be listed as Jazz Funk! So far away from that it's untrue. Who's Afraid of the Art of Noise is a fantastic album and Close (to the Edit) was one of the singles of the 80s

Can't understand why Art of Noise would be listed as Jazz Funk!

 

they are not listed as jazz-funk, thats a genre thats so important (on this soul patrol site) that it has a section of its own. the site is largely about black club music of the 70s and 80s.

Sorry made a right hash of reading the post. It doesn't say AoN are Jazz Funk at all. Interesting that they get a section in a soul listing when I would say they were more in the electronica line. But then music alsways has cross linked and mutated in unexpected ways which is why I love it so much.

Interesting that they get a section in a soul listing when I would say they were more in the electronica line. But then music alsways has cross linked and mutated in unexpected ways which is why I love it so much.

 

think its maybe because they were anon prod group and probs nobody knew who they were. also TIP was going on about dance music in the 1980s in another thread and said that club music then was mostly black club soul music in those days (apart from gay hi energy dance/club music which became the de facto pop music in the late 1980s/early 1990s) and this was before electronica and dance as you think of now. this point was also said in the 2nd of the Soul Britainia shows on BBC 4.

think its maybe because they were anon prod group and probs nobody knew who they were. also TIP was going on about dance music in the 1980s in another thread and said that club music then was mostly black club soul music in those days (apart from gay hi energy dance/club music which became the de facto pop music in the late 1980s/early 1990s) and this was before electronica and dance as you think of now. this point was also said in the 2nd of the Soul Britainia shows on BBC 4.

 

Guess I only knew who they were because FGTH fired up my interest in ZTT and then I went on to listen to AoN and Propaganda among others.

Guess I only knew who they were because FGTH fired up my interest in ZTT and then I went on to listen to AoN and Propaganda among others.

 

the ZTT chapter is intersting in the book of what their ideas were. quite pretentious it seems :lol:

the ZTT chapter is intersting in the book of what their ideas were. quite pretentious it seems :lol:

 

Well they did have Paul Morley as some kind of Minister of Information.

 

Well they did have Paul Morley as some kind of Minister of Information.

 

do you read his articles in the Observer Music Monthly??? i think he has good opinions most of the time.

do you read his articles in the Observer Music Monthly??? i think he has good opinions most of the time.

 

I always have time for him when he's on tv but something about OMM intensely annoys me. Probably because I don't agree with 95% of what they say.

I always have time for him when he's on tv but something about OMM intensely annoys me.

 

is it the top ten lists at the front. can be v sarcastic some times i guess. however i think they highlight some good new music most months. better read than q which is like having a month of virgin radio trampling over your head :lol: (and the omm is kinda free as well)