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In 1983, Trevor Horn, who had achieved a New Wave hit in 1979 with Video Killed the Radio Star (recorded with Geoff Downes under the name Buggles), was working in the studio with Yes on what would become the album 90125 and with Frankie Goes to Hollywood on what would become the album Welcome to the Pleasuredome.<br />In his employ were keyboardist/arranger Anne Dudley, keyboardist/programmer J.J.<br />Jeczalik, and mixing engineer Gary Langan.<br />The team had first assembled in 1981 to produce ABC's The Lexicon of Love album, which led to an instant increase in profile for all concerned.<br />The technological impetus for the Art of Noise was the advent of the Fairlight CMI sampler, an electronic musical instrument invented in Australia that Horn was reportedly among the first to purchase.<br />With the Fairlight, short digital sound recordings called samples could be played through a pianolike keyboard, while a computer processor altered such characteristics as pitch and timbre.<br />While some musicians were using samples as adornment in their works, Horn and his companions saw the potential to craft entire compositions with the sampler, tossing the traditional rock aesthetic out the window, or at least turning it on its ear.<br />It should be noted that others were working contemporaneously towards this goal (see Jean Michel Jarre and Yello).<br />Producer and musician Tony Mansfield had made extensive use of the Fairlight for Naked Eyes' eponymous debut album (the first pop album to feature such a hefty dose of the CMI).<br />Horn had previously put the sampling keyboard to great use on The Lexicon of Love, mostly in order to tweak live-based elements of performance but also to embellish the compositions with sound effects (such as a cash register's bell on Date Stamp). (*)