This may be one of the weirdest collaborations of all time.
Max Headroom was a digital character played by Matt Frewer, meant to be some sort of a digital presenter or talk show host or something. He's hard to explain. However, he was everywhere at a certain point of the 1980s.He had a British talk show. He sold New Coke after the return of Coke Classic.
Art of Noise was an avant-garde noise experimentation electronic group that got a little bit of attention from MTV and finally hit the US top 40 with this weird collaboration with a digital talk show host.
The song, written by Art of Noise with a title that is a mashup of "paranoia" and "insomnia", is weird early electronica.... and somehow, it just worked.
The song was remixed in 1989 by Ben Liebrand for a greatest hits album for the band. It lacks the Max, but doesn't leave out the electronica.
Despite being a very electronic group, they did perform live, like this performance from Tokyo in 1986. I personally find it interesting how they could create future beats live on instruments like they did.
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