Sony Art of Noise Music Album

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Japan First Release! The groundbreaking 1980s group Art of Noise, known for their innovative sampling techniques that create experimental collages of various sounds, will surprise you. Among their most impressive works are the orchestral arrangements of piano and strings by Ann Dudley. This album, which reinterprets many of their hits from the early label days of ZTT and China Records—sometimes sampling sounds of the piano itself and even the strings—has been eagerly awaited by AoN fans as a Japan-only project! Includes the famous track "Moments in Love," featured in SoftBank commercials with Takuya Kimura, "Robinson Crusoe," known as the ending theme of Fuji Film commercials and Jet Stream in the 1990s, Mr. Magic's theme "Legs," "Beat Box," "Close (To The Edit)," and Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star," among 16 representative tracks! Japan-exclusive project, Japan first release, special paper jacket, 12-page booklet. Commentary by Ian Peel (Editor of Classic Pop Magazine UK, Art of Noise historian) + Japanese translation/Japanese commentary by Reiko Yuyama.

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The groundbreaking 1980s group Art of Noise, known for their innovative sampling techniques that create experimental collages of various sounds, will surprise you. Among their most impressive works are the orchestral arrangements of piano and strings by Ann Dudley. This album, which reinterprets many of their hits from the early label days of ZTT and China Records—sometimes sampling sounds of the piano itself and even the strings—has been eagerly awaited by AoN fans as a Japan-only project!

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