Zang Tuum Tumb

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(thing) by pingouin (4.3 y) (print) ? (I like it!) Fri Jan 21 2000 at 19:14:54

A record label founded by producer Trevor Horn and "Minister of Disinformation" Paul Morley, ZTT married Steve Lillywhite's "big drums" ambience with dada hijinx using the new medium of digital sampling (heard in Horn's work on Yes' 90125, but gone gonzo at ZTT). The sublime: Early Art of Noise ("Beat Box", "In the Army Now"), Propaganda ("Dr Mabuse", A Secret Wish). The ridiculous: Frankie Goes to Hollywood. Now Just Another Record Label, purveyors of Seal and 808 State.

(thing) by Dorian (1.1 y) (print) ? (I like it!) Mon Jan 24 2000 at 3:15:56

ZTT at its start in the early 80's was supposed to be as artistically revolutionary as the early (and briefly) visionary days of Soviet Communism. Paul Morley, a former writer for the New Musical Express, appeared to think the ads were more important than the music; Trevor Horn was the resident Phil Spector. But after a while it seemed as if the label's signings were mere puppets dancing at the whim of the ZTTmeisters. (Another sublimity: Propaganda's "Dream Within a Dream".)

(thing) by baffo (2.5 wk) (print) ? (I like it!) Tue Jun 06 2000 at 21:22:19

The name of the label is the title of probably the most famous poem by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, an Italian Futurist.
It is supposed to reproduce (with an onomatopeia) the noise of a battle.

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Into Battle with The Art of Noise	onomatopoeia	Anne Dudley	A Dream within a Dream
Marinetti	Paul Morley	Two Tribes	808 State
Alfred Jarry	Art of Noise	Ludwig Wittgenstein	Morcheeba
Semper Fi	Trevor Horn	Propaganda	Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Welcome to the Pleasuredome	ZTT	Mother's cilantro and potato soup	The Darkness
Giovanni Tommaso	IRS	Zang	New Musical Express

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