By listening to clips of their music on last.fm, I've really come to appreciate this band, which was the "brainchild" of super-producer Trevor Horn (with budding film composer Anne Dudley as a regular member).
Any fans of them here? Any recommendations other than the IN NO SENSE? NONSENSE album.
WHO'S AFRAID OF THE ART OF NOISE is a seminel album. The second album is also great, as Horn's spirit is still felt even though he'd gone by this point. Fairlights and sampling. The other albums, where Dudley more or less takes over aren't my cup of tea, and they seemed to go away from sampling and into crappy fake big band covers of everything from PETER GUNN and Prince's KISS to the DRAGNET movie theme.
The first two albums are must haves though (sadly the second album is OOP).
The Ambient Collection (1990) is nice. I also owned Below The Waste (1989) once, which included some african music mixed with the AON sound. The Seduction Of Claude Debussy (1999) is their only studio album between 1990 and 2008, and it features Horn again. I have heard lots of good things about that album. Worth checking out I guess.
In a way, they remind me of Graeme Revell's industrial music band SPK, even though they're more melodic. Must be the sampling of actual noises that does it.
I can't remember doing this thread, as I haven't explored their music much since I sampled it on last.fm (these were the days before Spotify!). So thanks for bumping my own thread. I'll check them out on Spotify to see what I made such a fuss about 6 years ago.
