Colourbox - The Official Colourbox World Cup Theme


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Label: 4AD
Catalog#: BAD 605
Format: Vinyl, 12"
Country:UK
Released:Apr 1986
Genre: Electronic
Style: Leftfield, Synth-pop, Ambient
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.
Rating: 4.17/5 (24 votes) Rate It
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Tracklisting:

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)
User Reviews:
Joju, Nov 13, 2005

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 composers 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.

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