Classic Album Sundays, the event series renowned for hi-fidelity sound and immersive album experiences, is now lending their ethos to a record label via a PledgeMusic campaign with the release of The Art of Noise Who’s Afraid of The Art of Noise?. In collaboration with ZTT, Classic Album Sundays will present an audiophile deluxe box set which will feature a double vinyl re-issue of Who’s Afraid of The Art of Noise?, re-mastered in high quality at a the Gearbox all-analogue mastering suite from the original tapes and pressed on 180 gram, 45 rpm vinyl. The box set will also feature an artist print, turntable slipmat and booklet.
There are further items available to purchase in the campaign including a 12-inch featuring new DJ remixes by King Britt with a Fhloston Paradigm remix, to introduce the band to new fans. Further remixes will be announced soon along with the chance to buy a high definition24/96 FLAC download of the album. Art Of Noise are not a band and never were. They have always been an organization; a distinctly non-rockist creative, post-modernist collective. Starting out as a Trevor Horn led experimental studio outfit, the primary contributors were; Royal College Of Music graduate, Anne Dudley, producer/arranger J.J. Jeczalik and songwriter, instrumentalist and engineer/producer Gary Langan. Ex-NME writer Paul Morley contributed ideas and delivered the bands non-image to the press and media.
Art Of Noise were unleashed on an unsuspecting public in 1983 with the debut vinyl EP ‘Into Battle With Art Of Noise’, which won admirers in the pop and dance markets. Dazzling production from Horn created a post-rock soundscape that melded hip-hop beats with studio trickery, tape-splicing and more than a little humour. A special Classic Album Sundays event with Trevor Horn is set to take place in the autumn with more details on this being announced soon. The campaign can be joined here https://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/theartofnoise.