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Art Of Noise* – At The End Of A Century

Label : Salvo – SALVOSVX029 , ZTT – Element 37
Series : Salvo Audio & Vision, Element Series – 37
Format :

CD,

Album

CD,

Album, Reissue

DVD,

DVD-Video, PAL
Country : UK
Released :
Genre : Electronic
Style : Leftfield, Abstract, Modern Classical, Drum n Bass
Balance - Music For The Eye
Role One
CD1-ane The Paradigm Of A Group* – Intro 0:36
CD1-2 The Prototype Of A Group* – Dans Le Style D'Une Sarabande, Mais Sans Rigueur 8:07
CD1-3 The Image Of A Group* – The Falling Rocket iii:47
CD1-4 The Image Of A Group* – A Afar Ringing Of Horns 1:10
CD1-5 The Image Of A Grouping* – Bayonet 0:39
CD1-6 The Image Of A Group* – Bored On A Sunday v:03
CD1-seven The Paradigm Of A Grouping* – Hummingbird 2:46
CD1-8 The Image Of A Grouping* – Dans Le Fashion D'Une Chanson Populaire 0:forty
Part Two
CD1-ix The Paradigm Of A Grouping* – Intro 0:37
CD1-x The Epitome Of A Group* – The Food Of Dear 2:34
CD1-11 The Paradigm Of A Grouping* – Music For The I 0:41
CD1-12 The Image Of A Grouping* – Dreaming In Colour 4:45
CD1-13 The Image Of A Group* – Speechless Creatures 0:45
CD1-fourteen The Epitome Of A Group* – Middle, Index And Thumb two:44
CD1-xv The Image Of A Group* – It'southward All In The Ears 2:08
CD1-sixteen The Image Of A Group* – On CD 4:36
Office Three
CD1-17 The Image Of A Group* – Intro 0:15
CD1-xviii The Image Of A Group* – Driving Pelting Plus 6:59
CD1-xix The Prototype Of A Group* – The Case For A Consummate Performance 3:08
CD1-xx The Paradigm Of A Grouping* – Blue Murder 1:23
CD1-21 The Image Of A Group* – The Interrupted Serenade i:48
CD1-22 The Prototype Of A Group* – Ce N'Est Pas Fini! 0:24
CD1-23 The Prototype Of A Grouping* – The Reflection Of A Reflection 4:36
CD1-24 The Image Of A Group* – In The Balance (Across The Century) iii:58
CD1-25 The Paradigm Of A Grouping* – Fin De Siècle 2:28
CD1-26 The Image Of A Group* – Un Tendre Et Triste Regret 2:37
The Product Of Claude Debussy
CD2-ane Fine art Of Noise* – Il Pleure (At The Turn Of The Century) viii:02
CD2-2 Art Of Racket* – Born On A Sunday

Co-producer – Henry Jackman

four:38
CD2-3 Art Of Noise* – Dreaming In Colour

Co-producer – Way Out West

viii:34
CD2-4 Art Of Dissonance* – On Being Bluish v:x
CD2-v Art Of Noise* – Rapt: In The Evening Air four:22
CD2-6 Art Of Noise* – Metaforce

Co-producer – Sharktank*

3:44
CD2-7 Art Of Noise* – The Holy Egoism Of Genius 7:56
CD2-8 Fine art Of Noise* – La Flûte De Pan ii:31
CD2-9 Art Of Noise* – Out Of This World 5:17
CD2-10 Art Of Noise* – Metaphor On The Flooring

Co-producer – Ollie J

two:06
CD2-11 Art Of Noise* – Guess Mood Swing No.2 two:xi
CD2-12 Art Of Noise* – Intermission ii:thirty
CD2-13 Fine art Of Noise* – Dreaming (Colour Yellow)

Remix – Brothers In Rhythm

iii:44
CD2-14 Art Of Noise* – Dreaming (Color Green)

Remix – Brothers In Rhythm

5:19
CD2-xv Art Of Noise* – Dreaming (Colour Black)

Remix – Brothers In Rhythm

three:29
CD2-16 Art Of Dissonance* – Dreaming (Colour Silver)

Remix – Brothers In Rhythm

6:26
The Image Of A Group At The End Of A Century
Balance - Music For The Eye
DVD i The Paradigm Of A Group* – Born Over again 4:22
DVD ii The Image Of A Group* – The Art Of Debussy 17:24
The Image Of A Grouping* The Art Of Debussy (Unfinished Reels)
DVD 3 – Serenade Of The Dolls 4:48
DVD iv – Pelting i:04
DVD 5 – Bluish Murder 1:26
The Abstraction Of Claude Debussy
A Private Audience With Fine art Of Noise (Live At Coexistence, 01 June 2000)
DVD 6 Fine art Of Racket* – Out Of This Globe (Version 138)
DVD seven Fine art Of Noise* – Something Is Missing
DVD 8 Art Of Noise* – Born On A Sunday
DVD ix Fine art Of Noise* – Moments In Honey
DVD ten Art Of Noise* – Rapt: In The Evening Air
DVD xi Fine art Of Racket* – Metaforce
DVD 12 Art Of Noise* – On Being Blue
DVD 13 Fine art Of Racket* – The Holy Egoism Of Genius
DVD xiv Fine art Of Noise* – Shell Box / Close (To The Edit)
DVD 15 Art Of Noise* – Peter Gunn
DVD sixteen Art Of Racket* – Information
DVD 17 Art Of Dissonance* – Il Pleure (At The Plow Of The Century)
DVD 18 Art Of Noise* – Art Of Dissonance Is For…
DVD nineteen Art Of Noise* – La Flûte De Pan
DVD twenty Fine art Of Racket* – Dreaming In Colour
A Public Audience With Art Of Noise (Alive At The Shepherd's Bush Empire, 22 March 2000)
DVD 21 Art Of Dissonance* – Out Of This World (Version 138)
DVD 22 Art Of Noise* – Something Is Missing
DVD 23 Art Of Racket* – Born On A Dominicus
DVD 24 Art Of Noise* – Moments In Honey
DVD 25 Art Of Noise* – Rapt: In The Evening Air
DVD 26 Art Of Dissonance* – Metaforce
DVD 27 Art Of Noise* – On Existence Blueish
DVD 28 Art Of Noise* – The Holy Egoism Of Genius
DVD 29 Fine art Of Noise* – Beat out Box / Close (To The Edit)
DVD xxx Art Of Noise* – Peter Gunn
DVD 31 Art Of Noise* – Information
DVD 32 Art Of Racket* – Il Pleure (At The Plow of the Century)
DVD 33 Art Of Dissonance* – Art Of Dissonance Is For…
DVD 34 Art Of Noise* – La Flûte De Pan
DVD 35 Art Of Noise* – Dreaming In Colour
Bonus Features
DVD 36 Art Of Noise* – A Sales Device
DVD 37 Fine art Of Dissonance* – Dreaming In Colour
DVD 38 Fine art Of Dissonance* – Metaforce
DVD 39 Art Of Noise* – Something Is Missing
DVD twoscore Art Of Noise* – Something Is Missing (Coexistence, Take 4)
DVD 41 Art Of Noise* – La Flûte De Pan (Coexistence, Rehearsals)
  • Bass, Vox, Keyboards – Trevor Horn ( tracks: CD2-1 to CD2-xv )
  • Compiled By [Dreamed Up And Figured Out By] – Ian Pare
  • Coordinator [Production] – Augusta Quiney ( tracks: CD2-1 to CD2-12 ) , Debbie Caponetta ( tracks: CD2-1 to CD2-12 )
  • Pattern – Philip Marshall
  • Design [Assisted Past] – Oscar H. Scott*
  • Edited By [Digital Editing] – Don C. Tyler ( tracks: CD2-ane to CD2-12 ) , Spencer Chrislu ( tracks: CD2-1 to CD2-12 )
  • Engineer – Tom Elmhirst ( tracks: CD1-1 to CD1-26 )
  • Engineer [Additional] – Andy Gallimore ( tracks: CD2-ane to CD2-12 ) , Marc Lane ( tracks: CD2-1 to CD2-12 ) , Michael Perfitt ( tracks: CD2-1 to CD2-12 ) , Mike Ross* ( tracks: CD2-i to CD2-12 ) , Paul Wright ( tracks: CD2-1 to CD2-12 ) , Richard Lowe ( tracks: CD2-1 to CD2-12 ) , Roger Dudley ( tracks: CD2-ane to CD2-12 ) , Tim Wills ( tracks: CD2-i to CD2-12 ) , Tom Elmhirst ( tracks: CD2-1 to CD2-12 )
  • Engineer [Assistant] – Alex Black ( tracks: CD2-1 to CD2-12 ) , Andre Coulam ( tracks: CD2-1 to CD2-12 ) , Andy Davies ( tracks: CD2-one to CD2-12 ) , Dan Bierton ( tracks: CD2-ane to CD2-12 ) , Dan Vickers ( tracks: CD2-ane to CD2-12 ) , Iain Roberton ( tracks: CD2-1 to CD2-12 ) , Jamie Hart ( tracks: CD2-1 to CD2-12 ) , Malook Singh Kundan ( tracks: CD2-1 to CD2-12 ) , Matt Crawford (2) ( tracks: CD2-ane to CD2-12 )
  • Featuring, Narrator [Speaking] – John Hurt (2) ( tracks: CD2-one to CD2-12 )
  • Featuring, Other [Ghosting] – Charles Baudelaire ( tracks: CD2-1 to CD2-12 ) , Claude Debussy ( tracks: CD2-1 to CD2-12 ) , Rakim ( tracks: CD2-1 to CD2-12 )
  • Featuring, Vocals [Singing] – Emerge Bradshaw ( tracks: CD2-1 to CD2-12 )
  • Guitar, Voice, Keyboards – Lol Creme ( tracks: CD2-i to CD2-15 )
  • Liner Notes – Ian Peel, Paul Morley
  • Mastered Past [Original Anthology] – Ian Cooper ( tracks: CD2-1 to CD2-12 ) , Steve Marcussen* ( tracks: CD2-ane to CD2-12 )
  • Other [Metaphors], Voice, Keyboards – Paul Morley ( tracks: CD2-1 to CD2-15 )
  • Performer [Played, Pretended And Seduced By] – Fine art Of Dissonance* ( tracks: CD2-ane to CD2-xv )
  • Photography By – chrisclunn.com*
  • Piano, Orchestrated By, Voice, Keyboards – Anne Dudley ( tracks: CD2-1 to CD2-15 )
  • Producer – Paul Morley ( tracks: CD1-1 to CD1-26 ) , TCH* ( tracks: CD1-1 to CD1-26 ) , Trevor Horn ( tracks: CD2-1 to CD2-15 )
  • Recorded Past, Computer [Protools] – Tim Weidner ( tracks: CD2-i to CD2-12 )
  • Technician [Technical Assistance] – Alexander Areteos ( tracks: CD2-i to CD2-12 ) , Justin Fraser ( tracks: CD2-one to CD2-12 )
  • Text By – Paul Bourget ( tracks: CD2-3, DVD xx, DVD 35 )
  • Written-By – Dudley*, Henry Jackman ( tracks: CD2-2, DVD eight, DVD 23 ) , Creme*, Morley*, Rakim ( tracks: CD2-5, CD2-6, CD2-10, DVD x, DVD 11, DVD 25, DVD 26, DVD 38 ) , Horn*

Released in an 8-panel digipak with three clear trays, with a 28-pages booklet

Track CD1-8 is incorrectly spelt on the release "Dans Le Mode D'Un Chanson Populaire".

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  • Mastering SID Lawmaking (CD1, CD2 and DVD ) : IFPI LD12
  • Mould SID Lawmaking (CD1 and CD2) : IFPI 5075
  • Mould SID Code (DVD) : IFPI 5078
  • Matrix / Runout (CD1) : | SALVOSVX029/A | 077013 |
  • Matrix / Runout (CD2) : | SALVOSVX029/B | 077014 |
  • Matrix / Runout (DVD) : | SALVOSVX029/C LAYER ane | 106047 | DVD9 |
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Edited one twelvemonth ago

Hmmmm.
'Rest - Music For The Eye' has a few expert moments, but simply likewise often sounds like the sort of anonymous library music they play on TV channels during technical faults. 'Bored On A Dominicus' is prissy, and I quite liked 'It's All In The Ears', 'On CD', and the demo of 'Dreaming In Colour'. But and so many of these tracks, 'On CD' in detail, just meander, defective the energy of what would ultimately become 'The Seduction Of Claude Debussy'. There's no order or flow to the thing overall. Thank God J.J. Jezcalik allowed them to use the Art Of Noise moniker, making 'The Image Of A Group' rethink what they were doing.

'The Product Of Claude Debussy' is dainty to have every bit a glimpse of what might have been, and the alternate versions of 'Born On A Sun' and 'Dreaming In Colour' are practiced. But I retrieve I prefer the more than mutual version of the 'Seduction' album - 'Built-in On A Dominicus' works without Donna Lewis' more modern singing voice, but it's overnice to hear it blend so well with Emerge Bradshaw, and 'Dreaming In Colour' had a better outro. ('How we live... how we honey...') 'Out Of This World' merely works improve as a closing track than the weak 'Pause'. 'Metaphor On The Floor' is also more than jarring here.

And what of the DVD? It'due south fine, I estimate. Well presented, and dainty to have all the visual stuff from this era documented for archival purposes, fifty-fifty if the picture quality is slightly inconsistent depending on the source textile. Non exactly something you'd want to spend 4 hours binge watching, but works in small doses. (While I was typing this up I was watching the Shepherd's Bush-league concert - a few minutes afterwards I published this 'Peter Gunn' came on and the live band fucked it upwardly, I'thousand pitiful to say.)

I don't regret picking this up new for £ten. It'south a decent package, and good to hear the Seduction album in a different 'what if?' context, merely definitely something for completists. Except it isn't even that consummate - Ian Skin'southward sleeve notes hint at all the singles ('Built-in Again', 'Dreaming', 'Information', 'Something Is Missing') that had artwork designed and were ready to go, only weren't released when the first single, 'Metaforce', didn't fare well plenty. Would've been squeamish to have all those on an extra disc to brand this more justifiable (possibly a couple more discs to include 'Metaforce' and 'Reduction', or peradventure that's too much?) merely hey ho. The DVD carte du jour audio does feature some excepts from the 'Born Once more' single, and some 'Dreaming' remixes can be heard on the 2d CD (my favourite is the 'Silver' mix - very reminiscent of early 70s Kraftwerk), simply it doesn't actually feel like enough. If it had been upwards to me I would have simply done this as a 6-disc volume or boxset, featuring the original 'Seduction' album and all the material that was released at the time, along with what you get here and the other unreleased bits from the archive - a truly consummate collection.

As it is, this is a decent compilation of two work-in-progress drafts of an album, plus some okay alive performances from the time. Yous definitely won't like this if yous hated 'Seduction' for being pretentious, and you might observe it as well familiar.

mjb's avatar

I dearest the Art of Noise, but sometimes I hate them, too, and this is one of those times. The only affair that makes this release worthwhile is The Product Of Claude Debussy, a new championship for the reissue of a promo-simply mix of The Seduction Of Claude Debussy plus rare remixes of the album'south showcase song, "Dreaming in Colour". I much prefer this version of the anthology, although the differences from the standard commercial release are subtle.

The residual of this collection should accept been but put online for free. The Balance album, in particular, has few redeeming qualities. I can't believe they seriously considered putting it out. It is mostly demos, very underproduced and in need of quite a bit more editing, mostly to remove Morley's patience-trying voiceovers and straddling of the fine line between clever and stupid. The album'south best parts—few and far between—were retained and reworked in a much amend form for The Seduction of Claude Debussy.

The alive bits are no more of a must-meet than the Visible Silence tour material from 1986—interesting mayhap for the most devoted fans to experience in person, simply hardly an experience worth shelling out money for on video.

ZWOL2's avatar

Edited 7 years agone

Throughout the 1980s the Art of Noise were at the forefront of modernistic applied science, pioneering the then new concept of digital sampling, influencing a generation of musicians, sound engineers and record producers akin. By 1990 the ii remaining members of the group, Anne Dudley & J.J. Jeczalik decided that their work was done when sampling had become available to the masses. As an avid fan since September 1983, I, like a lot of others was quite sad when the news was announced only a few weeks after the release of the hit unmarried Fine art Of Love and their remix compilation anthology The Ambience Drove.

Throughout the majority of that decade, enthusiasts like my cocky had to endure some other two remix albums in try to continue the spirit of group alive by Red china Records, as more than and more contemporary dance artists of the fourth dimension were acknowledging the group equally their idols, making way for a new audience to find their music, albeit in bastardised forms. However Fine art of Noise themselves were decorated not being Fine art of Racket working on other projects.

A few weeks earlier the third and thankfully last remix album was released, the outset proper Fine art of Dissonance spin-off project, or sequel, depending on ane's point of view emerged in the class of an album by Art of Silence, the brainchild of Jeczalik. It got positive praise by fans and rave reviews in the dance music press. However by early 1997 he had retired from the music industry ending what at the fourth dimension seemed similar the finish of the Art of Racket for good. Soon later on we would be proved incorrect when another spin-off project began to accept shape in the form of the Image of a Group, a collaboration with original members Dudley, Trevor Horn, Paul Morley with a new member, Lol Creme of 10cc and Godley & Creme fame began working on Horn'due south concept anthology idea based around the music of the French composer Claude Debussy that would eventually end upwardly being released in 1999 as The Seduction Of Claude Debussy, the fifth Art of Noise and the first in a decade. The roots of that released album are included every bit two prototype versions on the kickoff ii discs of this iii set.

Balance - Music For The Eye (Disc One - CD)
This previously unreleased album is presented in its pure unadulterated form. More tranquil and less flatulent than its commercial counterpart it allows the melodic themes of Debussy room to breath, taking them in different directions to those we take been used to hearing over the last fifteen years. From a production point of view it is an ambitiously polished work and stands up to the exam of time. In many means far meliorate than the album we've been accustomed to with the use of more than subtle drum & bass rhythms and tones. Throughout the sixty-nine infinitesimal elapsing it gives the listener a pleasant, refreshing feel with more prominent darker ambient moods and incorporated smooth jazz vibes. It is a timeless classic that never was, an album that could have easily take reached the top of the Smooth Jazz album charts. With its fusion of classical elements it reiterates and emphasises that all genres of music can coexist together, by breaking downward musical boundaries to create something new that transcends conformist convention. Different The Seduction Of Claude Debussy, all of the monologues are performed past Morley as introductions to the three parts that make upwardly this album and get in easier to listen to the tracks individually without them sounding similar they have been taken out of context. It is a shame that Balance - Music For The Middle was never released in its own right every bit it would have been an excellent debut for the Image of a Group. Alas this was not to be after Horn decided to shelve it and first once again afterward Jeczalik allowed them to utilize the Art of Racket name. The results of that cloth appear every bit the second version of the album on disc ii.

The Production Of Claude Debussy (The Producer's Cutting) (Disc Two - CD)
Formerly only available equally an advanced promotional copy of The Seduction Of Claude Debussy is now commercially available for the very first time with four addition tracks. It is essentially the same as the released version with a few alternate mixes of sure tracks with a discretely different running society. Afterwards listening to disc i the listener is now hitting with rampaging drum & bass rhythms, orchestral arrangements, Sally Bradshaw operatic vocals, John Hurt's gripping narration of the life and times of Debussy. Donna Lewis and Carol Kenyon provided vocals with raps provided by non other than Rakim. Horn co-produced a large part of the album with other producers including Henry Jackman, Way Out West, Sharktank and Ollie J that gave it a gimmicky dance audio of that period. The album is more concise than the first version allowing the music to menstruum from ane track to the next by gathering momentum until it stops to breath before picking upward speed and races to the end to bow out gracefully with the final rail. The additional tracks are remixes of Dreaming mixed past Brothers In Rhythm that feel like a missed opportunity every bit they were one time considered to exist included as tracks on a follow-up unmarried to Metaforce.

The Image Of A Group At The End Of A Century (Disc 3 - DVD / PAL / Region: 0)
A potpourri of concert footage, electronic press kits, rehearsal footage, promotional videos and scratch videos that cover this period of Art of Racket's history. A Private Audience With Fine art Of Noise (Alive at Coexistence, 01 June 2000) and A Public Audition With Art Of Noise (Live at the Shepherd's Bush-league Empire, 22 March 2000) are ii takes on the same show presented in total for the very first time are more coherent than the previously released DVD Into Vision that kept cut between footage from the Coachella Festival, Shepherds Bush and Wembley. The only downside is that there is no v.i surround sound on this release but the amount of footage on this disc alone makes up for that.

Now after more than xv years since the release of The Seduction Of Claude Debussy; At The Cease Of A Century gives fans a new perspective of the music created from that menses of fourth dimension, an insight to what was and could have been. It is a portal to the past of which the likes of the over-hyped Spice Girls along with the overrated Oasis ruled the charts rather than radical innovative music that has been synonymous with the Art of Noise making them stand up out from their contemporaries and peers every bit one of the almost influential groups in music history, ironically keeping a depression profile equally they went along.

As e'er with the every release in the Element serial, number thirty-vii'due south packaging is start rate. Included within the lavish 3 disc digipak is a very well documented booklet with sleeve notes past Paul Morley and curator Ian Peel along with previously unreleased pictures.

5 stars - KM Whitehouse