Comments on: White Label Wednesday: Art of Noise, “Close (to the Edit)”

By: Kapitano

Kapitano — Tue, 25 May 2010 02:33:17 +0000

It was this song that made me want to make music. Just hearing it once, sometime in 1985. The sheer audacity of it – rhythm from a starter motor, “verses” that literally went dum-dum-dum, the meandering structure…the idea that you could make a 'song' from whatever sounds were lying around.

As Anne Dudley once said in interview about hearing the Fairlight for the first time, “Pressing that one key, it was as though the whole world got a bit bigger”.

But like they said on their “Debusy” album, “An attempt to create beauty is always regarded by some people as a personal attack”.

By: Data

Data — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 23:47:09 +0000

Oops, meant *Gary* Langan in that last comment!

By: Data

Data — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 23:46:05 +0000

Maybe depends on who you ask, but I've heard that this was much more the work of J. J. Jeczalik and Greg Langan, than it was Trevor Horn. Everybody tends to assume that it was mostly a Horn project, because it was ZTT, and has *that* sound -- but that's no surprise, as Langan was Horn's engineer!

Jeczalik retired from the biz in the late nineties or so. Certainly some bad blood too, though; Jeczalik and Langan at one time considered that AON had been kind of stolen from them.

I'm pretty sure that Jeczalik is in the Close To The Edit video -- I think he's the guy in the white glasses.

By: Data

Data — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 19:47:09 +0000

Oops, meant *Gary* Langan in that last comment!

By: Data

Data — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 19:46:05 +0000

By: Data

Data — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:47:09 +0000

Oops, meant *Gary* Langan in that last comment!

By: Data

Data — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:46:05 +0000

By: kingofgrief

kingofgrief — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:25:40 +0000

I didn't have the last three! By coincidence, I was browsing a candy store on my lunch break today and heard this song on their satellite radio…sandwiched in between “What You Need” and “Pictures of You”. The station was First Wave, natch.

By: Ted

Ted — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 02:26:24 +0000

These are great! I have the first two versions, but not the other ones. So, thanks for rounding out my collection, David.

By: DavidMedsker

DavidMedsker — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:46:42 +0000

Yeah, that blue cover version was hands down the better comp. Not sure what happened there, unless ZTT decided not to allow them to use the songs from that first album.