Author: Martin O'Gorman Circa: July 1999  Not PAUL MORLEY,
certainly. He’s back with a new album with his studio combo THE
ART OF NOISE. MARTIN O’GORMAN is Listening  You may recall a
young ne'er-do-well named Keith Flint, grimacing and posturing
to his group's 1996 No. 1 hit, "Firestarter". Listeners of a
certain age will also remember that the Prodigy used a rather
startling sample from a classic single of old. It went "Hey!
Hey!", and it was from "Close (To The Edit)" by the Art Of
Noise, their Top 10 smash from 1984. What's ironic Is that the
group who pilfered, remixed and remodelled other people's tunes
and noises, turning them into a brand new artform, have become
the establishment from whom young whippersnappers now choose to
thieve.  But the AON are not taking it lying down. They're back
with original members Paul Morley, Anne Dudley and Trevor Horn
for the first time since 1985, and they've got a new album, "The
Seduction Of Claude Debussy", to prove that they're still
pushing forward the frontiers