Isles of Wonder - Music for the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games

[whatmakesustick]

On the BBC they did mention that underworld were the music directors...

[dubman]

they're mostly high contrast remixes though, which is a bit like eating a candy bar when you know it's got shit all over it, but it's a candy bar so you love it.

if i had actually caught this i'd be trolled so hard.

[TheBang]

High Contrast on his involvement in the Parade of Athletes:

http://www.highlycontrasting.com/201...ning-ceremony/

Rick Smith ill. Hopefully, it's just exhaustion (understandably), and he'll be fine after a rest:

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012...n_1713216.html

Finally, Esme Smith, soprano singer. She did backing vocals in ALAF, appeared in Frankenstein, and now last night in Caliban's Dream. Rick's daughter? Or just coincidental last name?

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Originally Posted by DaddyAdv

THis is "I will kiss" - the epic drum-laden track for the industrial revolution part:


Skip to about 4:30 any you will find that Rick snucked in the "rising" synth line from the middle part of Rez :-)

yeah - I spotted that when the chimneys came up - you just 'knew' it was all going to be great after that!

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Watching again - the whistling during the industrial revolution's 'Two Months Off' breakdown is the 'Caliban's Dream' refrain

[the mongoose]

Hope Rick gets well soon!

[joethelion]

so I was being kinda cheap and well... stupid

So I have both a US and a UK iTunes. I bought the album off of the Uk iTunes, because it was a few buck cheaper (with the exchange rate)

AND OF COURSE - there was a flaw in "And I Will Kiss" - like when it got to about... three minutes left in the song, it just stopped. So I figured, 'no big whoop - I'll just redownload it'

and boom.

apparently - if I redownload the track, it'll make it IMPOSSIBLE to download anything from my US iTunes for the next 90 days! (when I won't even have my UK card anymore)

so um...
can someone give me a copy of just "And I Will Kiss" ?

and is it getting a proper physical release???

[Andrea]

and everybody felt happy and glorious
what a vibe!

...and I do want to kiss

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Originally Posted by dubman

missed it

listening to "And i will kiss" it sounds like that bombastic stuff they use in front of shows like the amazing race to recap what's happened.

It's to open a show with a 1-billion person global audience - 'bombast' is pretty-much a PRE-requisite. It worked a treat.

[negative1]

good article mentioning the
music in the olympics.

with references to underworld,
and to new order.
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http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/27/sport/...opening-music/

later
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