The Ambient Collection Explained

The Ambient Collection
Type:remix
Artist:Art of Noise
Cover:Art of Noise - The Ambient Collection cover.jpg
Released:1990
Genre:electronic, chill-out
Length:49:21
Label:China
Polydor
Producer:Youth (compilation)
Art of Noise (original tracks)

The Ambient Collection is a 1990 album compiling songs by the Art of Noise into a chill-out mix. The album was compiled and remixed by Youth, using songs from the Art of Noise albums In Visible Silence and In No Sense? Nonsense!, as well as the song "Island" from Below the Waste. The album spawned one single, "Art of Love", which uses elements from the Art Of Noise tracks "One Earth", "Crusoe", "Opus 4" and "Camilla".

Track listing

  1. Opus 4 (0:42)
  2. Opus for 4 (3:46)
  3. Nothing Was Going to Stop Them Then, Anyway (0:44)
  4. Crusoe (5:03)
  5. Island (5:40)
  6. Camilla (7:56)
  7. Ode to Don Jose (4:14)
  8. Counterpoint (0:56)
  9. Roundabout 727/Ransom in the Sand (2:08)
  10. Eye of a Needle (4:43)
  11. Robinson Crusoe (4:02)
  12. A Nation Rejects (4:45)
  13. Art of Love (7" Edition) (4:36)

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