Into Battle With the Art of Noise (Bonus Dvd) [Import, Original recording remastered]

Art of Noise | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 25, 2003)
• Original Release Date: 2003
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import, Original recording remastered
• Label: Repertoire
• ASIN: B0000942QK
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #414,270 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Battle

2. Beat Box

3. Army Now

4. Donna

5. Moments In Love

6. Bright Noise

7. Flesh In Armour

8. Comes & Goes

9. Moment In Love

10. Close Up (Bonus Track)

11. Close Up (Hop) (Bonus Track)

12. Moments In Love

13. Beat Box Pop Promo

14. Close To The Edit (Version 2)

15. Metaforce

Editorial Reviews

Digitally remastered and expanded edition of this 1983 release, one of the most influential EPs of the last 30 years. Direct from the mysterious Art of Noise archive, this reissue includes 18 previously unreleased and uncannily prescient tracks from never-before-heard Worship album (1984). Includes the hit singles 'Beat Box', 'Moments In Love' and 'Close (To The Edit)'. Deluxe digipak comes with superbly designed, full color 12-page booklet containing extensive notes by compiler/curator Ian Peel. Salvo. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Into Battle returns... sort of..., January 23, 2004

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Andrew Rothman "www.arothman.com" (Cleveland, OH USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Into Battle With the Art of Noise (Bonus Dvd) (Audio CD)

The folks at Repertoire and ZTT did a really nice job of repackaging The Art of Noise's first album. Amazing that it took this long to make it to digital, although nearly all of the content from "Into Battle" was included on the "Daft" release several years ago. The packaging, liner notes and the DVD content are put together thoughtfully and simply. It was a nice move to have included CD versions of the "Close Up" single. Something of a shame that ZTT and China/Chrysalis can't come to some agreement and put out a more 'complete' version of the AoN discography between them.

The only major complaint I have, as others have stated, is the baffling choice to replace the original version of "Beatbox" with the version available on all previous ZTT re-releases. It seems odd that every other track from "Into Battle" has been left in tact, but "Beatbox" is not the same as on the vinyl. In fact, to the best of my knowledge, the only CD version ever of the original "Beatbox" track was on a relatively obscure 'Best of the 80s' style compilation. It almost makes one wonder whether the producers of this anniversary disc have ever listened to the original pressing...

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Element 16 for 2011!, April 30, 2011

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Kevin O'Conner - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Into Battle With the Art of Noise (Audio CD)

Into Battle with the Art of Noise is the latest installment (No. 16, to be precise) in ZTT's fine Element Series of reissues via the Salvo label. As with the Claudia Brücken collection Combined, the disc is packaged in a miniature gatefold LP sleeve.

The astute listener will notice that both the front and booklet covers contain a typo, with "Flesh in Armour" listed as "Flesh in Armous". This is unfortunate, but perhaps this can be fixed with subsequent printings. On the other hand, the artwork is crisp and clean, unlike the 1999/2000 ZTT reissues through Universal, which had to rely on already printed material because, if I recall correctly, the original artwork for most of the early ZTT albums was lost to fire.

The re-created album artwork aside, the obvious point of comparison for this edition would be the 20th anniversary reissue released in 2003 by Repertoire. By most measures, the Element Edition (as the ZTT web site refers to it) of Into Battle is an improvement.

For starters, the original version of "Beat Box" has been restored to the running order, whereas the 20th anniversary edition contained "Beat Box (Diversion 1)" in its place.

The sound quality is much improved, in my opinion. The 20th anniversary edition was mastered at hotter levels, which, while not carried out to extremes utilized, did not exactly make for repeated listening. The Element Edition is mastered at more reasonable levels, and is consistent with other releases in ZTT's Element Series.

Some folks will grumble, perhaps rightly so, that the cassette version of "Moments in Love" is used here instead of the full 10-minute version. However, the liner notes indicate that this is to avoid duplication with the forthcoming deluxe reissue of Who's Afraid of The Art of Noise, which will include the full version.

Speaking of Who's Afraid of The Art of Noise, that LP was apparently the result of changes made (to appeal more to a mainstream audience) after the unexpected single success of "Close (to the edit)". Before that single became a hit, The Art of Noise had put together an album called Worship. That previously unreleased album is included here.

I was always somewhat disappointed in Who's Afraid of The Art of Noise, particularly since I already had "Beat Box (Diversion One)", "Close (to the edit)" (which sprang forth from "Beat Box (Diversion Two)"), and "Moments in Love" on other releases, and the new material included was mostly too short and not very interesting.

Worship, on the other hand, contains more new material, more varied material, and is both longer and more interesting. The interludes "One Finger of Love", "Two Fingers of Love", and "Three Fingers of Love" (which is *not* the same as the track on "daft" listed as "(Three Fingers of) Love") are jazzy pieces dominated by strings, sax, and piano, and would have been quite unexpected from the group at that point in time. And "Confession" is actually kind of funky, relatively speaking. But we do still get more "Beat Box" - in the form of "Close (to the edit)" and Diversions 1, 3, and 5 (not in that order).

If Who's Afraid of The Art of Noise was monochrome (as suggested by its sleeve art), then Worship is its more colorful counterpart. I assume that the album never got as far as the sleeve design, since the only related images shown in the booklet are the track listings from the master tape boxes.

The inclusion of Worship is a smart move on the part of ZTT, since Into Battle as presented here is also included in the 2006 box set, And What Have You Done with My Body, God? About a half-dozen tracks from Worship are also part of that set (though, as the liner notes point out, not yet placed in the context of Worship), but that still leaves 12 tracks that owners of said box will not already have. Since this edition of Into Battle is a single disc, that means the cost of those 12 tracks is not terribly outrageous.

In short, better sound, new liner notes, crisp artwork, and an album's worth of extra material. Hard to go wrong with this one.

9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars TOTAL DISAPPOINTMENT, December 17, 2003

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Carmine Pesce (Staten Island, NY United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Into Battle With the Art of Noise (Bonus Dvd) (Audio CD)

i have awaited the release of this particular Art of Noise LP onto cd for 20 years. this title was my all-time favorite Art of Noise record. upon opening up the cd & quickly jumping to track 2 - "Beat Box" only to find out it has been replaced by the version that appeared on "Who's Afraid of The Art of Noise". you can imagine my disappointment! i thought for sure after 20 years i would finally have the original break dance classic of "Beat Box" in the digital format. Anyway, being a true Art of Noise fan for many years, this was definately a let down.