Colourbox - The Official Colourbox World Cup Theme

Label:

4AD

Catalog#:

BAD 605

Format:

Vinyl, 12"

Country:

Released:

Apr 1986

Genre:

Electronic

Style:

Leftfield, Synth-pop, Ambient

Tracklist

A	The Official Colourbox World Cup Theme	5:27
	Engineer - Tania Hayward Remix - Unknown Artist
B1	Philip Glass	3:29
B2	The Official Colourbox World Cup Theme	3:06

Credits

Artwork By - 23 Envelope
Engineer - Keith Mitchell
Producer - Colourbox
Written-By - S & M Young*

Notes

Recorded at Palladium.
Remix location and engineering credit miscredited to the B side.
A: Remixed at Guerilla.

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Rated 4/5

Review by Joju Nov 13, 2005 (edited over 4 years ago)

A truly great record. It still baffles me, every four years, why this STILL is not the world cup theme on telly. It just sounds exactly like the title suggests. It is basically a huge horn riff, but the the bombastic overall effect belies a very neat arrangement. It has a fine guitar solo, and a gorgeous synth vox interlude.
The b-side 'Philip Glass' suggests where the composers were taking some of their inspiration at this time. It is a synth exploration of the minimal, trance like beauty of the famous composer's work, segued back into a reprise of the a-side.
This record is a glimpse into electronic studio music in the UK in the time before techno changed everything.