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1984 single past Art of Dissonance

"Close (To the Edit)"
Single past Art of Noise
from the album Who'south Afraid of the Art of Dissonance?
Released	October 1984[1]
Recorded	March 1984
Genre	Synthpop, advanced
Length	5:34 (Album version) 4:10 (edit)
Label	ZTT
Songwriter(south)	Anne Dudley, Gary Langan, J. J. Jeczalik, Paul Morley, Trevor Horn
Producer(southward)	Art of Dissonance
Art of Noise singles chronology
"Shell Box" (1983) "Close (To the Edit)" (1984) "Legs" (1985)

"Close (to the Edit)" is a single by Fine art of Noise, released on various formats in October 1984. It was closely related to their before single (and hip-hop club hitting) "Shell Box", though the two tracks were adult as separate pieces from an early on phase.

The first release of a version of "Close (to the Edit)" was as a nominal remix of "Beat Box" under the title "Beat Box (Diversion Ii)". This was and then re-edited and partly remixed with different effects applied, to get the version of "Close (to the Edit)" which appeared on the subsequent album Who'due south Afraid of the Art of Noise?. Paul Morley's sleevenotes for the single simplify the relationship between "Diversion Two" and "Close", noting only that 20 seconds were "snipped out".

The song takes its title from Close to the Edge past Yes, and likewise samples "Leave It" and "Owner of a Lonely Centre" past the same group, the latter two of which Trevor Horn produced. The unmarried heavily features the recorded sample of a automobile, a Volkswagen Golf game owned by a neighbour of band member J. J. Jeczalik, stalling and restarting. Information technology as well contains a (re-sung)^{[ commendation needed ]} vocal sample from the song "Beer Butt Polka", every bit performed past The Andrews Sisters. The short spoken-word vocal and the "Hey!" sample – used in a number of songs most notably in "Firestarter" by The Prodigy and "Back in the Mean solar day" by Christina Aguilera (uncredited) – was the voice of Camilla Pilkington-Smyth.^[2]

The single was released in the Britain on what had become ZTT's customary array of formats: standard and picture disc vii" versions, five 12" singles (ane a picture disc) and a cassette single, each featuring a number of unique mixes. The many remixes were given their own titles derived from the overall championship, including "Edited", "Closely Closely (Enough'due south Enough)" and "Close-Up".

The cassette single version, That Was Close, is a medley of a number of the mixes from the diverse formats, featuring "Diversion Eight", "Diversion Two", "Closest", "Close-Up", the album version of "Close (to the Edit)" and "Closed". This medley lasts in backlog of 20 minutes in length, repeats on both sides of the cassette, and remained otherwise unavailable until it was included in its entirety on the 2006 CD box-gear up compilation And What Accept You Done with My Body, God?.

The single was Art of Dissonance's first major United kingdom hitting, reaching number eight in the Great britain singles chart in February 1985.

Music videos [edit]

Three promotional videos were recorded for the single. The original version, featuring a little girl in punk garb leading three business accommodate-clad men in the destruction of various musical instruments, was directed by Zbigniew Rybczyński. According to an interview^[3] with the band, "The male members of the band were slightly disturbed that they were fabricated to come off equally Huey Lewis and the News," Paul Morley said in an interview at the time, "so one of the reasons nosotros tend to hibernate behind masks or not announced at all is because it opens up more possibilities how Art of Noise can be presented. Sometimes you had video art directors go excited about how they were going to nowadays Art of Racket, and in that detail case, he interpreted it every bit a strange young girl with Huey Lewis & The News. Half of information technology was fun and half of it was slightly sad."

"I thought it was a fun video," Anne Dudley said, "but some people thought information technology was unnecessarily violent. It was banned in New Zealand as encouraging violence towards children. Null could have been further from our minds." The video later won the MTV Video Music Awards for Most Experimental Video and the All-time Editing in 1985.

A second video version, composed nigh entirely of surreal animation, aired in the UK, directed by Matt Forrest,^[4] with some clips from the original version.

A third video version, mostly identical to the 2d video version, included various shots of the band in-studio. ZTT Records have made all of these videos viewable on YouTube.

Live performance [edit]

The rail was performed live past Horn and Anne Dudley during Horn'due south 2004 all-star charity result Produced past Trevor Horn (subsequently released on DVD as Slaves to the Rhythm), celebrating Horn'due south 25th ceremony every bit a tape producer. The performance featured Yep drummer Alan White on drums and Lol Creme on guitar. Almost all of the elements of it (except for a spoken phrase by Camilla Pilkington-Smyth, which was pre-recorded) were live, as opposed to programmed or sequenced: Horn played his elaborate bass part on a 5-string bass, Dudley played live synths and triggered all the samples from the original track (including the "dum-dum" chant) from a Roland keyboard, the "tra-la-la" vocals (originally an Andrew Sisters sample) were sung live by Linda Allen and Debi Doss of Buggles fame, all the other instruments were played by members of the onstage orchestra, and the whole piece was played faster than the original (about 135-136 BPM rather than 129). Indeed, Horn introduced the performance by emphasizing the live nature of it and stating that, since the original piece was "played by machines" (i.east. programmed), the band would innovate some deliberate mistakes to prove that everybody was live. In fact, the bodily performance does not include whatever mistakes, but some of Dudley's melodic synth lines are slightly unlike from the studio version.^[5]

Quondam Art of Racket members J. J. Jeczalik and Gary Langan do not feature in the functioning, nor does music journalist and MC Paul Morley. In spite of this, the rails is listed on the DVD encompass and menu as being performed by Art of Noise.

Formats and rail listing [edit]

7": ZTT / ZTPS 01 United Kingdom [edit]

1. "Close (To The Edit)" – iii.51*
2. "A Fourth dimension To Hear (Who's Listening?)" – 3.32**

• * Based on an edit of the LP version on Who's Agape of The Art of Noise?
• ** A montage of extracts and out-takes from the LP.

12": ZTT / 12 ZTPS 01 United kingdom [edit]

1. "Shut-Upwards" – 7.37*
2. "Close-Upward (Hop)" – 5.10

• * Significantly different to the LP version.
• This is the first 12-inch release.

12": ZTT / 12 ZTPS 01 United kingdom [edit]

1. "Shut-Up" – vii.37
2. "Shut-Upwardly (Hop)" – 5.10
3. "Close (To The Edit)" – 3.51*

• * Seven-inch version.
• This is the second 12-inch release.

12": ZTT / 12 ZTPS 01 United Kingdom [edit]

1. "Closely Closely (Enough's Enough)" – vii.15*
2. "Moments In Dear" – 10.17**
3. "A Time To Hear (You're Listening)" – iii.29***

• * Resembles the LP version much more than "Close-Upwardly".
• ** LP version.
• *** Aforementioned as 7" b-side with different title.
• This is the third 12-inch release.

12": ZTT / 12 ZTPS 01 United Kingdom [edit]

1. "Closely Closely (Enough's Enough)" – 7.xv
2. "Close-Upwardly (Hop)" – five.ten
3. "A Time To Hear (Who's Listening?)" – 3.32

• This is the fourth 12-inch release.

12": ZTT / 12 ZTPS 01 Britain [edit]

1. "Edited" 5:32*
2. "Close-Up (Hop)" v:ten**
3. "A Fourth dimension To Hear (Who's Listening?)" three:27

• * Like to the LP version with additional overdubs and effects.
• ** "Close-Up (Hop)" is not listed on this release.
• Picture disc.

7": ISL / 7-99754 U.s. [edit]

1. "Close (To The Edit)" – 4.10*
2. "(Practice) Donna (Practise)" – 3:ten**

• * Early fade of LP version.
• ** Extended mix of Into Battle rails "Donna".

12": ISL / DMD 744 Us [edit]

1. "Shut (To The Edit) (LP Version)" – 5:35
2. "Shut (To The Edit) (Edit)" – 4:ten*
3. "Beat Box (Diversion 1)" – viii:33

• * Early on fade of LP version.
• U.Due south. promo.

Cassette single: ZTT / CTIS 106 U.k. [edit]

That Was Shut – continuous medley comprising:

1. "Diversion Eight" 2:05
2. "Close (To The Edit) (album version)" five:34 – listed equally "Diversion Ii"
3. "Closest" 0:43
4. "Close-Up" vii:xviii
5. "Close (To The Edit) (7" version)" iii:26
6. "Closed" 1:thirty

• Total length: 20:36

Note:

• Several earlier demo versions and rejected mixes appeared on the box fix And What Have You Done with My Trunk, God?

	An excerpt from the 12-inch version "Close-Upwards".
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References [edit]

1. ^ "Art Of Noise - Close (To The Edit)". 45cat.com . Retrieved 19 October 2019.
2. ^ Lai, Chi Ming (eight August 2010). "Interview with Gary Langan of The Art of Noise". electricityclub.co.uk. Retrieved 24 September 2021.
3. ^ "The Art of Noise Paints Futuristic Picture of the Past". PauseandPlay. xx June 1999. Archived from the original on 23 January 2013.
4. ^ Booth-Clibborn, Edward (1986). "Matt Forrest". European Illustration 1986-87. Switzerland: Polygon Editions S.a.r.fifty. ISBN0-904866-49-i.
5. ^ "Fine art of Noise Close to the edit Live Prince's Trust 2004 Produced by Trevor Horn". YouTube. Archived from the original on 22 December 2021. Retrieved nineteen October 2019.

External links [edit]

• Close (To the Edit) at MusicBrainz (list of releases)
• "Close (to the Edit)" version 1 on YouTube
• "Close (to the Edit)" version 2 on YouTube
• "Close (to the Edit)" version 3 on YouTube

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