1983
Art of Noise debut; the "put up or shut up" release by the fledgling
Zang Tuum Tumb. "Beat Box" was semi-straight dancefloor; "In the Army Now" combined
samples of Swing Era drums and girl-group vox; "Moments in Love" was a pristine, disembodied take on
10cc's "I'm Not in Love", and was later sampled by
hip-hop balladeers. AoN would later break from the ZTT Borg, but they would never again mindfuck on this level; for this brief moment in time,
Fairlight was God.