The Art of Noise (also Art of Noise) was an avant-garde synth pop group formed in 1983 by engineer/producer Gary Langan, programmer J. J. Jeczalik, along with arranger Anne Dudley, producer Trevor Horn and music journalist Paul Morley.[1] The group's mostly instrumental compositions were novel melodic sound collages based on digital sampler technology, which was new at the time. Inspired by turn-of-the-20th-century revolutions in music, the Art of Noise were initially packaged as a faceless anti- or non-group, blurring the distinction between the art and its creators.
The band is noted for innovative use of electronics and computers in pop music and particularly for innovative use of sampling.
The albums are, The Ambient Collection, Below The Waist, The Best Of The Art Of Noise, In No Sense? Nonsense, The Seduction Of Claude Debussy, and some others that I've lost along the way.
I should dig up a video of Paranoimia. I always have it come to mind when I need to sleep and am having trouble. "Come sweet slumber, enshroud me in thy purple cloak... hmph. Doesn't even rhyme."