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Noise in the City Live in Tokyo, 1986
(Music on Vinyl)
IN 1983 The Art of Noise released Into the Battle with the Art of Noise, which featured a 10-minute version of Moments in Love. A pioneering slice of romantic post rock ambient innovation. All part of their ZTT label’s visionary ideal.
Headed up by Trevor Horn and Paul Morley, it oversaw Frankie Goes to Hollywood’s rise and the influential Propaganda. Along with a stellar line-up of sound engineers and producers, working at Horn’s Sarm West studios in London it should have gone onto new heights.
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