The Art of Noise

I can still listen to "Moments In Love" on repeat. I actually had the 45 with this and "Beat Box" on the b-side. The hardest of hardrocks have been known to stop and acknowledge this track and I'm sure many babies around the world where made to this..

Live Performance footage..


Art of Noise (also The Art of Noise) was an avant-garde synthpop group formed in 1983 by producer Trevor Horn, music journalist Paul Morley, and session musicians/studio hands Anne Dudley, J.J. Jeczalik, and Gary Langan. 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-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 and particularly for innovative use of sampling.

The name of the group alludes to the essay The Art of Noises by noted futurist Luigi Russolo. From the earliest releases on ZTT, the band referred to themselves as both Art of Noise and The Art of Noise. Official and unofficial releases and press material use both versions.

Beat Box was one of the breaker's anthems in 1984. Every crew had this song as a part of their routine at some point...sheer brilliance.