Avant Hard

Avant Hard is the third studio album by English electronic music band Add N to (X). It was released in 1999 on Mute Records.

The track "Metal Fingers in My Body" was used in an advertisement for a digital television service in the UK, played as the background music for skateboarder Danny Way for a montage of tricks. "Barry 7's Contraption" was used as the background music for a telecoms advert for Orange UK directed by Chris Cunningham, and was used regularly as backing music on the TV series Banzai.

Track listing
Sample credits
 * "Machine Is Bored with Love" is based on samples from "Fugue in D Minor", written and performed by Egg (Dave Stewart, Dirk Campbell and Clive Brooks).

Personnel
Production
 * Add N to (X) – production, arrangement
 * Barry 7 – production, arrangement
 * Dean Honer – production, arrangement
 * Ebby Acquah – engineering
 * Steve D'Agostino – engineering
 * Roger Johnson – engineering

Additional musicians
 * Rob Allum
 * Alison Goldfrapp

Artwork and design
 * Add N to (X) – artwork
 * Joe Dilworth – band photos