ZANG TUMMM TUMB ARTICLES “the first draft of history”

THE ART OF NOISE: ‘Into Battle With The Art Of Noise (ZTT ZTIS 100, via Island) An extremely odd 12in collection of different electronic rhythms and textures, all very experimental but pretty well essential for any truly serious scratch mixers, the long 108bpm ‘Beat Box segment being best as a background while most of side 2 is the really lovely 34¼/68½bpm ‘Movements In Love/Flesh In Armour smoother, worth trying in its own right.