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Art of Noise (also The Art of Noise) were a British avant-garde synth-pop group formed in early 1983 by engineer/producer Gary Langan and programmer J. J. Jeczalik, along with keyboardist/arranger Anne Dudley, producer Trevor Horn, and music journalist Paul Morley. The group had international Top 20 hits with its interpretations of "Kiss", featuring Tom Jones, and the instrumental "Peter Gunn", which won a 1986 Grammy Award. The group's mostly instrumental compositions were novel melodic sound collages based on digital sampler technology, which was new at the time. Inspired by turn-of-the-20th-century revolutions in music, the Art of Noise were initially packaged as a faceless anti- or non-group, blurring the distinction between the art and its creators. The band is noted for innovative use of electronics and computers in pop music, particularly its innovative use of sampling.
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The Organisation of Pop: 30 Years of Zang Tuum Tumb [2014]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Close (To the Edit) | 3:52 |
| Moments in Love | 4:31 |
Greatest Ever! Electric Eighties [2013]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Close (To the Edit) | 4:03 |
| Moments in Love | 4:38 |
| Beat Box | 3:51 |
Zang Tuum Tumb: The Organization of Pop: Music from the First Thirty Years of ZTT Recor [2013]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Beat Box | 4:51 |
| Moments In Love (Beaten) | 7:01 |
The Art of the 12" [2011]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Close (to the Edit) [Closely Closely, Enough's Enough] [Version] | 7:14 |
Influence [2010]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Moments in Love | |
| Beat Box (Diversion) | |
| Close (To the Edit) | |
| Peter Gunn | |
| Paranoimia | |
| Kiss | |
| The Holy Egoism of Genius | |
| Beat Box |
And What Have You Done with My Body God? [2006]
Reconstructed [2004]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Moments In Love | 8:16 |
| The Holy Egoism of Genius | 0:07 |
| The Holy Egoism of Genius, | 7:00 |
Electric: The Very Best Early Electronic, New Wave & Synth [2002]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Close (To the Edit) | 5:26 |
Generations 80's: Classics from the 80's Alternative Scene [2002]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Beat Box (Diversion One) | 2:57 |
Moments in Love [Germany Single] [2002]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Moments in Love [A Moment... Love Is Fighting with Death] | 4:32 |
| Beat Box [Diversion 10] | 3:57 |
| Moments in Love [Beaten] | 9:31 |
| Moments in Love [Multimedia Track] |
The Drum and Bass Collection [1996]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Opus 4 [PFM Remix] | 9:20 |
| Kiss [Haitian Vampire Mix by Digital Pariah] | 6:17 |
Sounds of the Eighties: The Rolling Stone Collection, 1983-1985 [1995]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Close (To the Edit) [the the Edit] | 5:35 |
The Best of Rave [Priority] [1995]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Instruments of Darkness (All of Us Are One People) | 3:40 |
The Best of the Art of Noise [1988]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Opus 4 | 2:01 |
| Beat Box (Diversion One) | 8:31 |
| Moments in Love | 6:58 |
| Close (To the Edit) | 5:38 |
| Peter Gunn Theme [The Twang Mix] | 7:30 |
| Paranoimia | 6:42 |
The Best of the Art of Noise [Bonus Tracks] [1988]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Opus 4 | 2:00 |
| Yebo! | 3:50 |
| Instruments of Darkness (All of Us Are One People) | 3:40 |
| Peter Gunn | 3:55 |
| Paranoimia | 3:17 |
| Kiss | 3:30 |
| Yebo! [The Arkarna Dub] | 8:46 |
The Best of the Art of Noise [Pink Cover] [1988]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Opus 4 | 2:00 |
| Yebo! | 3:50 |
| Instruments of Darkness (All of Us Are One People) | 3:40 |
| Peter Gunn | 3:55 |
| Paranoimia | 3:17 |
| Kiss | 3:30 |
Daft [1987]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Beat Box (Diversion One) | 8:32 |
| Donna | 1:45 |
| Close (To the Edit) | 5:28 |
| (Three Fingers Of) Love | 4:45 |
Daft [Bonus Tracks] [1987]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Love | 7:04 |
| Beat Box (Diversion One) | 8:31 |
| Donna | 1:43 |
| Moments in Love | 10:19 |
| Close (To the Edit) | 5:39 |
| (Three Fingers Of) Love | 4:46 |
Daft [Japan Bonus Track] [1987]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Love | |
| Beat Box (Diversion One) | |
| Donna | |
| Moments in Love | |
| Close (To the Edit) | |
| (Three Fingers Of) Love |
In Visible Silence [1986]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Opus 4 | 1:59 |
| Paranoimia | 4:46 |
| Instruments of Darkness (All of Us Are One People) | 7:12 |
| Peter Gunn | 3:55 |
In Visible Silence [Deluxe Edition] [1986]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Instruments of Darkness [Version] | 7:12 |
| Backbeat (Reprise) | 4:00 |
Moments in Love [US/UK Single] [1985]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Moments in Love (Beaten) [12" A Side] | 7:02 |
| Moments in Love [Beaten] | 6:58 |
| Moments in Love | 4:42 |
| Beat Box (Diversion Ten) | 4:02 |
| Beat Box [Diversion 10] | 3:56 |
(Who's Afraid Of?) The Art of Noise! [Japan] [1984]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Beat Box (Diversion One) | 8:33 |
| Moments in Love | 10:16 |
Who's Afraid of the Art of Noise? [1984]
Into Battle with the Art of Noise [1983]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Beat Box | 8:22 |
| Donna | 1:45 |
| Moments in Love | 5:12 |
| Moments in Love [Multimedia Track] |
The Value of Entertainment
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Beat Box [The Ambassador's Reel] | 3:54 |
| Beat Box [Extract From the Value of Entertainment, 30 May 1985] | 1:39 |
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