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	Wednesday 8th September 2010 OMD TO SUPPORT THE BUGGLES ON 28.09.10 - Click here for details ZTT.com Monday 30th August 2010 CLOSE YOUR EYES... - Click here for details ZTT.com Friday 13th August 2010 The Buggles - The Return - 28.09.10 Posted on 09.08.10 Trevor Horn and ZTT Records is proud to announce the return of The Buggles, live on stage for their first ever full live gig... a mere 30 years after their international #1 hit single Video Killed The Radio Star kick-started a generation of electronic pop. Trevor will reconvene the original Buggles line-up, including Geoff Downes (Yes, Asia) and Bruce Woolley (Camera Club, Grace Jones), to preform their ground-breaking début album - The Age of Plastic - in full. No tour is planned, no DVD or live CD will be released... The Buggles – along with some very special guest artists – will perform live on stage for one night only on 28 September 2010 at at a special and intimate West London venue. This unique event is being put together to raise funds for London's Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability. Active since 1854, the hospital has a simple but very important mission: to add years to life and life to years. Further details - including surprise guests, support acts, and pre-show exclusives - will be announced soon. But to avoid disappointment, please click here to register your interest in what is set to be one of London's - and technopop's - hottest tickets of the coming months... ZTT.com Friday 6th August 2010 A RETURN TO THE STUDIO FOR JJ JECZALIK & GARY LANGAN The two founder members of the Art of Noise have been working together in a studio in London and have been recording a series of radio interviews for the BBC to spread the word of the new "Influence" album. A lot of interest in the Art of Noise has been generated since its release last month and these interviews are due to be broadcast soon. In his blog on Myspace, Gary said "Well, for all you Art of Noise fans the latest release from this "ground breaking outfit" is in you High St shops. I command you to dip into your pockets.Those of you in rural areas should be getting an interview on BBC local radio from JJ and I over the next days. The two of us spent Thursday and Friday locked in a box in the bowels of Broadcasting House churning out some very funny and witty banter loosely term'd as interviews" Broadcast dates and details: TBC THE BUGGLES WILL RETURN...ON 28.09.10 watch this space here and at ZTT.com KM Whitehouse
	Friday 16th July 2010 A REVIEW OF THE DEFINITIVE ART OF NOISE COLLECTION ART OF NOISE - INFLUENCE (ZTT/Salvo SALVODCD212 / Element 10) Released Monday 19th July 2010 The music from the new “Influence” album is playing as I sit on the floor of my office surrounded by the hundreds of worldwide releases on multiple formats in my Art of Noise collection whilst writing this review. Like other serious collectors, I have always known that something else is missing and this compilation, the latest addition to the group’s discography, rubs salt into the wound by giving the collector a taste of what else lies hidden away in the vaults. Unlike the previous archive release, "And What Have You Done With My Body, God?”, this new selection is not just aimed at the collector. It also acts as part greatest hits and part introduction to the most influential group of the past 30 years. This is the first compilation since the long deleted original “The Best Of The Art Of Noise” to feature tracks from both the ZTT and China Records back catalogues. Unlike that lost album, this new retrospective includes material from the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. ZTT’s curator and Art of Noise aficionado Ian Peel has not only complied this labour of love, but has also created a work of art by selecting each individual track with care. Throughout this thirty nine track compilation only four tracks appear on both compilations, the 7” versions of “Kiss” (featuring Tom Jones), “Peter Gunn” (featuring Duane Eddy), “Moments In Love” and “Beat Box (Diversion 10)”, the latter two appearing only on the LP/cassette versions of the 1988 collection. By not duplicating all the same versions of singles from “The Best Of…”, the listener gets an opportunity to hear the original 7” mixes of “Close (To The Edit)” (a.k.a. "Beat Box (Diversion Seven)"), “Legs”, “Dragnet”, and the 12” remix, “Paranoimia (The Paranoid Mix)” (with Max Headroom) which all blend in perfectly with the rest of the carefully selected tracks on this album. The thought of ‘best of’ albums containing b-sides and album tracks had always came across to me as just filling, however that is certainly not the case here! As I mentioned earlier, this album is only part greatest hits. The music of the Art of Noise has never been able to be defined by any genre, as it is a genre within itself and the remaining tracks confirm that statement. “Love Beat” is a perfect example of this, a type of slow jazz that originated from “Moments In Love” before it became a stand alone track that went on to appear as the soundtrack to various TV commercials. Their music was never a stranger to television as one of the most iconic theme tunes ever produced hit the airwaves in the shape of the “(Theme From) The Krypton Factor”. This high energy track, a fan favourite for more than two decades is available here for the very first time in its original form, before it was developed into another track that appeared on the “In No Sense? Nonsense!” album, from which the quirky and bizarre “Ode To Don Jose” is taken. “Acton Art” is an edited down reprise of that album that sends the listener on an audio rollercoaster ride with a structure that defies conventional musical structure. In contrast to that, more traditional methods are used in the form of three orchestrated tracks “Promenade One”, “Promenade Two” and “Finale” from the “Below The Waste” album, throwing a spanner into the works of any preconceived notion of what Art of Noise is, or should be. Not just one spanner was thrown for the “The Seduction Of Claude Debussy” tracks, but a whole set of spanners with the odd socket set thrown in too as demonstrated in the tracks “Metaforce (featuring Rakim)” and “The Holy Egoism Of Genius”. This time fusing together classical, operatic, house, drum & bass, narrative and even a rap on “Metaforce”, once again defying any genre categorisation. And that is just the first CD subtitled “The A Side: singles, hits, soundtracks and collaborations” that also includes the single that never was “Something Is Missing” and the improvised live recording “A Is For Beginning”. Following on from the success of the aforementioned “And What Have You Done With My Body, God?” box set, and with the same care taken as on CD 1, the listener is transported into another dimension with CD 2 “The AA Side: unreleased experiments, before and after science”. An alter ego to the first disc, this 66 minute chronology of completely previously unreleased material is a must have for any Art of Noise fan and it isn’t too hard on the first time listener. The first part is essentially recordings taken from the experiments from the original line-up: Anne Dudley, Trevor Horn, JJ Jeczalik, Gary Langan and Paul Morley. “Beep Beep” an alternative version of “Who’s Afraid (Of The Art Of Noise)” makes one ask the question ‘Why weren’t some of these tracks put out as singles?’ “A Time For Fear (JJ’s 12” Remix)” was planned as the follow up to “Moments In Love” of which two more versions appear, “Moments In Love (Anne To Tears Mix)” and “Moments In Love (The Monitor Mix)” (with Lucky Gordon). All of those tracks were recorded before Anne, JJ & Gary left ZTT to achieve greater success. The fruits of Trevor & Paul’s labour as a spin-off group in 1986 can be heard with the two versions of “This Is Your Life” as Art & Act that was only rumoured to exist. “I’m A Stranger Here Myself” and “Cassandra” are the very last tracks recorded by Anne & JJ that were intended for use in an American feature film. The remainder of the disc sheds light onto the creation and development of the concept album “The Seduction Of Claude Debussy” with Lol Creme joining the Dudley/Horn/Morley line-up. The unreleased versions from this period, could have easily been released on the finished album. Although no versions from the pre-release CD appear here, it still makes for very interesting listening and shows how creative the group are/were. The quality of most of the unreleased tracks on this disc put the final finished products of many artists to shame. Spread throughout the disc are “Interlude…” tracks featuring spoken words by Trevor Horn and John Hurt. “Dainty” features Camilla Pilkington’s recording sessions for the track “Who’s Afraid (Of The Art Of Noise)” while “Beat Box (Diversion 3.4, Extracted)” is from an actual jamming session. The packaging for “Influence” is first class including an eight-panel digipak to house the two CDs complete with a luxurious booklet that accompanies the set written by Ian Peel that also contains previously unpublished photographs of the group with contributions from Anne Dudley and Paul Morley. By ignoring and erasing from existence all of those so called ‘remixed interpretations’ from the three cash-in remix albums (well at least on this album) becomes a pure joy to listen to, a work of art. 10/10 KM Whitehouse WISHFUL THINKING? PROPAGANDA A SECRET WISH (DELUXE DOUBLE CD EDITION) (ZTT/Salvo, SALVOMDCD14 / Element 11) Released Monday 19th July 2010 ZTT's third act, Propaganda, due to their short lifespan often get overshadowed by their label stable-mates Frankie Goes To Hollywood and the Art of Noise. They were the centre of a metaphorical sandwich between the two groups, having a more experimental sound than FGTH and a more accessible sound than AoN, they came up with one of the best albums of the 1980s. From beginning to end "A Secret Wish" is a phonic electro driven, even punk-like attacking pop powerhouse. Claudia Brücken's unique vocals stand out on such classics "Dr. Mabuse", "p:Machinery" and "Duel" along with the song's alter ego "Jewel". Other classics are "Sorry For Laughing", "Dream Within A Dream" and "The Murder Of Love". This new expanded version of their debut album contains both the original vinyl and CD variations of the tracks that appeared on both formats in 1985 with an additional CD featuring remixes and unlreleased versions of tracks from disc one including "Do Well" (a collection of various mixes from "Duel") originally issued only on cassette, make this definitive edition and a must have for any Propaganda fan. It is a real shame that Propaganda split shortly afterwards before Claudia co-founded the short-lived Act. 10/10 KM Whitehouse Monday 12th July 2010 ONE WEEK TO GO... Monday 19th July 2010 sees the release of Influence. I can tell you that it has been worth the wait, featuring such classics as Legs (7" Version), Paranoimia (The Paranoid Mix) (with Max Headroom), Close (To The Edit) (a.k.a. Beat Box (Diversion Seven)) and the (Theme From) The Krypton Factor, here on CD for the first time. The set contains two versions of This Is Your Life by Trevor Horn & Paul Morley's spin-off project Art & Act., along with some of the final recordings made during the Anne Dudley and JJ Jeczalik period. The package also includes a booklet written by ZTT's curator and the compiler Ian Peel featuring previously unreleased photos of Art of Noise, words from Anne Dudley and Paul Morley, all housed in a fantastic digipak. KM Whitehouse
	Monday 21st June 2010 INFLUENCE: THE DETAILS *Here at last are the details of the new Art of Noise release Influence* due for release on 19th July 2010 INFLUENCE CD1: THE A SIDE: Singles, hits, soundtracks and collabs...** 01. A IS FOR BEGINNING [2:23] * 02. MOMENTS IN LOVE [4:39] 03. BEAT BOX (DIVERSION TEN) [4:02] 04. CLOSE (TO THE EDIT) [4:12] 05. LOVE BEAT [5:16] 06. PROMENADE ONE [0:32] 07. LEGS [3:30] 08. PETER GUNN (featuring Duane Eddy) [3:56] 09. PARANOIMIA (The Paranoid Mix) (featuring Max Headroom) [6:30] 10. DRAGNET (Art of Noise 7" Mix) [3:02] 11. PROMENADE TWO [0:38] 12. ODE TO DON JOSE [4:13] 13. ACTON ART [2:50] 14. (THEME FROM) THE KRYTPTON FACTOR [0:53] * 15. KISS (featuring Tom Jones) [3:32] 16. FINALE [2:38] 17. METAFORCE (featuring Rakim) [5:47] * 18. SOMETHING IS MISSING [5:19] * 19: THE HOLY EGOSIM GENIUS [7:56] CD 2: The AA Side: Unreleased experiments, before and after science... 01: INTERLUDE ONE [0:15] * 02. BEEP BEEP [3:59] * 03. BEAT BOX (DIVERSION 3.4 Extracted) [4:44] * 04. A TIME FOR FEAR (JJ's 12" Remix) [4:06] * 05. DAINTY [1:42] * 06. MOMENTS IN LOVE (Anne To Tears Mix) [3:56] * 07. MOMENTS IN LOVE (Monitor Mix) (with Lucky Gordon) [2:07] * 08. INTERLUDE TWO [0:21] * 09. THIS IS YOUR LIFE (Take Six, TCH Vox) 1:59] * 10. THIS IS YOUR LIFE (Take Three, M Vox) [4:35] * 11. I'M A STRANGER HERE MYSELF [5:22] * 12. CASSANDRA [6:04] * 13. INTERLUDE THREE [1:33] * 14. DR GRADUS [2:00] * 15. DREAMING IN COLOUR, VIA WAY OUT WEST [6:40] * 16. ON BEING BLUE (New York) [5:53] * 17. BEAU SOIR [2:49] * 18. BALANCE - MUSIC FOR THE EYE (Extract From Part Three) [3:20] * 18. (i) Blue Murder (ii) The Interrupted Serenade (iii) Ce N'est Pas Fini! 19. DR GRADUS (reprise) [1:00] * 20. THE INVENTION OF LOVE [2:48] * * previously unreleased previously unreleased on CD A is for Beginning recorded live at the Coachella Festival, 10 September 1999. Beau Soir recorded live in rehearsal for Coexistence, 01 June 2000 Part ten in ZTT's ever-expanding Element Series. A product of Zang Tuum Tumb, the organisation of pop. Literally, metaphorically, romantically and symbolically. ZTT/Salvo -2xCD: SALVODCD212 / Element 10** Postscript: For buyers in the United States click on the banner on the right to pre-order your copy due for release on the 20th July 2010 THE ART OF DREAMING Art Of Noise's unseen promo video for Dreaming in Colour has made it's official screening on ZTT's YouTube site more than a decade of being locked in the vaults of ZTT. The single was originally released in late 1998 as part of Dream On With The Art Of Noise All Mixed Up In Bed By Way Out West as a promo only. A year later it was remixed by Brothers In Rhythm and once again issued as a promo only 12". The song featured on the 1999 album The Seduction Of Claude Debussy featuring vocals by Donna Lewis of I Love You Always Forever fame. The video is being used as part of ZTT/Salvo's promotion for the upcoming best of album Influence. Moments In Love is still in the Billboard Jazz Digital Songs charts. The track has now spent 18 weeks there with only a 3 weeks dropping below the number 50 spot. The track is at number 40 this week down to places from last week. Congratulations to the Art of Noise! KM Whitehouse
	Monday 7th June 2010 A TIME TO HEAR... INFLUENCE UPDATE PART 3 By now some of you are aware of the "leaked" information regarding the new Art of Noise Influence CD via the retailer Amazon.co.uk. However the tracklisting stated isn't 100% accurate. The confirmed tracklist will be listed here as soon as news comes in. Expected release date is 19th July 2010 "the time is coming near..." KM Whitehouse
	Wednesday 12th May 2010 LATEST UPDATE ON LEGACY - PART 2: I IS FOR... INFLUENCE The forthcoming Art of Noise retrospective is to be called Influence after dropping the working title Legacy. Influence will be packaged in a smart eight panel-digipak featuring previously unpublished photographs from every period of the group's history, further details about the actual track-list will be published within the next few weeks. At the moment of publication, ZTT/Salvo have pencilled in a provisional release date for sometime July Watch this space for further news... KM Whitehouse
	Monday 10th May 2010 JUST A MOMEMENT... Moments In Love is still in Billboard's Jazz Digital Songs chart , spending no less than 14 weeks there KM Whitehouse
	Thursday 8th April 2010 MALCOLM McLAREN 1946 - 2010 The controversial former manager of the Sex Pistols has died today from a rare cancer called Mesothelioma. The self-publicist and impresario passed away in New York, USA, aged 64. He was partly responsible for introducing hip-hop to the UK after seeing young black DJ's scratching records in New York, along with introducing world music to the British public, pre-dating Paul Simon's Graceland. McLaren also became a pop star, releasing the smash hit singles Buffalo Gals and Double Dutch along with the parent album Duck Rock in the early 1980's. The album was produced by Trevor Horn and featured three other Art of Noise members, Anne Dudley, JJ Jeczalik and engineer Gary Langan. It is through their work with McLaren that helped to kick-start the Art of Noise into existence. In the years that followed Malcolm McLaren continued to create music as well as moving into television and film projects including Channel Four's The Ghosts of Oxford Street. In 2008 he appeared on Big Brother: Celebrity Hijack and was also to appear on another reality TV show I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here! in 2007, but pulled out of the show before it began saying "The reality is their jungle is a glorified film set. The whole show is a circus. I was shocked to hear I was never going to be in any danger." He will be best remembered for his involvement with the punk movement and his association with the Sex Pistols, Bow Wow Wow, Adam & the Ants, Afrika Bambaataa, The World Famous Supreme Team Show and Vivienne Westwood. McLaren is survived by his son Joe Corre and his partner Young Kim. Our thoughts and deepest sympathies go out to Malcolm's family & friends at this very sad time. KM Whitehouse
	Monday 22nd March 2010 MOMENTS IN LOVE IS A HIT AGAIN IN 2010 The Art of Noise's classic Moments In Love track entered Billboard's Jazz Digital Songs chart at #45 on the 6th March and peaked at #43 on 13th March 2010. Moments In Love first appeared as a track over ten minutes long on the group's debut release Into Battle With The Art Of Noise, before being edited as the b-side for the 1983 7" single Beat Box. The track became a hit single in 1985 and again in 1987. Madonna replaced the Wedding March with Moments In Love when she married Sean Penn. The track has been sampled by artists such as King Sun-D Moet (Hey Love) and J.T. & The Big Family (Moments In Soul), to name but a few. The track has also been given a fresh make-over as a mash-up entitled 3 Words vs Moments In Love (DJs From Mars Bootleg RMX). It is a mash-up of AoN's classic Moments In Love and Cheryl Cole's 3 Words. The track was put together by TheMarsAttax and is taking YouTube by storm with a video featuring both video's mashed-up together. To view and listen click here KM Whitehouse
	Saturday 20th February 2010 *LATEST UPDATE ON LEGACY* PART 1** Other items planned to be featured on the upcoming Art of Noise archive album include experiments from the late 1990's thate predate The Seduction Of Claude Debussy album. Also to feature will be unreleased (Who's Afraid Of?) The Art Of Noise! period tracks and material from the Art of Noise spin-off group Art & Act (Horn/Morley and Steve Lipson), that was up until now only rumoured to exist. Watch this space for further news... KM Whitehouse
	Saturday 20th February 2010 ART OF NOISE'S ZTT REISSUES Salvo hope to start re-issuing the group's ZTT back catalogue as expanded sets featuring additional tracks starting late 2010 and early 2011. They will follow a long line of ZTT/Salvo releases after ZTT's former distributor went bust in 2008. Other reissues by the label will include albums from Frankie Goes To Hollywood, 808 State amonst others Watch this space for further news... KM Whitehouse
	Friday 29th January 2010 NEW ART OF NOISE SUMMER RELEASE ZTT/Salvo plan to release a new Art of Noise retrospective album entitled Legacy. The double CD set will contain both ZTT and China Records material, the first album to do so since 1988's original version of The Best Of The Art Of Noise. This new compilation will feature singles, hits, soundtracks, collaborations and at least an hour of unreleased material from the groundbreaking Grammy award winning group. This forthcoming collection is being compiled by ZTT's Ian Peel, the man who brought us the Art of Noise tribute album The Abduction Of The Art Of Noise, along with group's own box set And What Have You Done With My Body, God? and ZTT's 25th anniversary box set Zang Tumb Tuum: The ZTT Box Set. No track listings have been confirmed for the album as yet, but it promises to be more than a standard run of the mill compilation. Watch this space for more news... KM Whitehouse
	Thursday 28th January 2010 ADVENTURES IN MODERN RECORDING Trevor Horn's second Buggles album is due to be released by ZTT/Salvo on Monday 15th February 2010. This new expanded edition of the original 1981 album features no less than seven additional bonus tracks. The original album was released the year after their debut The Age Of Plastic that featured the number one single Video Killed The Radio Star. Between the two albums, Horn & Geoff Downes had joined & left the group Yes. Unlike the previous album Downes only featured on four of the tracks, leaving Horn to finish the rest of it alone. The original album also credits two other future Art of Noise members, Anne Dudley on keyboards along with Gary Langan on engineering duties. Trevor Horn will be performing live at the Brit Awards as part of the backing band for Robbie Williams on 16th February 2010 KM Whitehouse	Click above to buy
	Thursday 28th January 2010 FRANKIE SAY DELUXE EDITION Great news for Frankie Goes To Hollywood fans as ZTT/Salvo are set to release a double CD of their 1984 number one album Welcome To The Pleasure Dome. The Liverpool "lads", Holly Johnson, Peter Gill, Mark O'Toole, Brian Nash and Paul Rutherford were the biggest band in the UK scoring three number one singles with Relax, Two Tribes and The Power Of Love. This infamous group were aided & guided by non other than four members of the Art of Noise, Trevor Horn (producer), JJ Jeczalik (programming), Anne Dudley (additional keyboards & arrangements) and Paul Morley (marketing & the Frankie Say... t-shirts). The results of which can be heard on this expanded edition that features remixes, interviews and unreleased material from ZTT's vaults. KM Whitehouse	Click above to buy