Bomb The Bass ‎– Winter In July

This was the first commercially-released record to be mixed in "3-D Sound", a technique which it was claimed at the time would be as revolutionary as the introduction of Stereo had been thirty years earlier, with the advantage that unlike the unsuccessful four-speaker Quadrophonic system, this technique required only the regular two speakers. The single was premiered on Mark Goodier's "Evening Session" show on Radio 1 following a simultaneous broadcast with the TV programme "Tomorrow's World" which demonstrated the technique using a remixed version of "Megablast". Actually, the "Megablast" remix was better than this, with sounds flying all around the listener's head; "Winter In July" is much more subtle. In retrospect, it maybe wasn't the best choice of song to launch 3D sound onto the market, though it did reach the UK top ten. As for the technology, it didn't quite catch on in the way some had predicted, though some artists dabbled with it to great effect - Orbital's "Snivilisation" album has some wonderful 3D mixing - and it has now been largely superceded by the five-speaker Surround Sound system. It's almost as if Quadrophonic never flopped.