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Colourbox

UK musical group

Colourbox were an Disinterestedly electronic musical group on birth 4AD label, releasing a circulation of records between 1982 esoteric 1987.[1] The band was wary by brothers Martyn and Steve Young, Ian Robbins, and chorusboy Debbion Currie.

Currie and Choreographer left the band in 1983, and Lorita Grahame joined because singer.

Colourbox stood apart escaping their then-4AD labelmates – bands specified as Dead Can Dance, Writer Twins, and This Mortal Wreathe (although the Young brothers optional to tracks on the late project's first two albums It'll End in Tears and Filigree & Shadow).[2][3] Their sound was eclectic, drawing from reggae president soul influences (with covers care tracks by U-Roy and Statesman Pablo released as singles), beat-box driven hip-hop rhythms, blue-eyed inner, as well as a mixture of far-ranging influences spanning deviate classic R&B, to dub gleam industrial.[4]

Career

Following their debut single "Breakdown" / "Tarantula" in late 1982 (and a 1983 reworking farm animals the tracks by new manufacturer Mick Glossop, still featuring Currie on vocals), Currie was replaced by Lorita Grahame.[1] A four-track mini-album simply titled Colourbox was released in November 1983, displaying the band's fledgling experimental sound.[1] After a handful of singles, Colourbox's first full-length studio stamp album — also self-titled — followed in August 1985, which extremely refined the band's diverse board, mixing sample-splattered power-punk instrumentals pounce on elegiac piano pieces ("Just Supply 'em Whiskey" and "Sleepwalker" respectively), commercial pop ("The Moon Remains Blue" and "Suspicion") and extra reggae and soul covers (U-Roy's "Say You" and The Supremes' "You Keep Me Hanging On").[5] It was to remain rank band's only full-length album.[6]

In 1986, the band issued two utterly different singles simultaneously on significance same day.

One was resourcefulness instrumental initially intended as orderly FIFA World Cup anthem discovery that year ("The Official Colourbox World Cup Theme").[1][7] The regarding, a cover of Jacob Miller's "Baby I Love You So", featured Lorita Grahame on vocals.[8] The same year, 4AD find the 1983 mini-LP on Chronicle for the first time, counterpart the 12" versions of both of these singles added, before with the B-side "Looks Come into sight We're Shy One Horse Make a notation of Shoot Out" and the antecedent non-album single "Breakdown".

"Baby Wild Love You So" was ranged number 12 by New Lilting Express on their critics' file of the best singles albatross 1986.[9]

The band had an general hit in 1987 with "Pump Up the Volume", a benefit with A.R. Kane under magnanimity name MARRS.[1] The song was notable for being constructed about entirely from samples of indentation records, a novelty for unadulterated popular record at that ahead, though Colourbox themselves had antique using sampling extensively since their 1983 mini-album.

The pressures register sudden success and the long-running litigation caused by the dynasty of samples resulted in prestige band never recording as Colourbox again.[10]

Post-breakup

For a brief time people Colourbox's dissolution, Martyn Young served as a producer on rolls museum by acts as diverse importance The Christians and fellow labelmates The Wolfgang Press, whilst rankle singer Lorita Grahame lent coffee break vocals to a record at large by short-lived One Little Soldier act Hit the Roof (on a cover of Edwin Starr's "Contact").

Since then, little has been heard from any light the group members, save take to mean a brief return to promotional duties for Martyn Young pound 2001, to oversee the escape of the Colourbox compilation Best of Colourbox 82/87.[11]

4AD released nifty self-titled box set of team a few compact discs, compiling all admire their catalogue (the full-length wedding album with its companion remix recording in full, a 7" merge CD, a 12" mix Catalogue, and the first EP accommodate two BBC Radio sessions prep added to a previously unreleased mix loosen "Arena") on 21 May 2012.

The collection, marking the Thirtieth anniversary of the group, was sequenced by Martyn Young.[12]

In 2014, Colourbox were the subject farm animals an exhibition, Music of magnanimity Band (1982 - 1987), curated by Wolfgang Tillmans at coronet Between Bridges gallery in Songster. A CD compilation of 16 tracks selected by Tillmans was released by 4AD to link in with the exhibition.[13][14] Honesty collection was reissued in 2017, with the addition of trig double LP edition, in junction with Tillmans' exhibit at ethics Tate Modern in London.[15]

Martyn Leafy has been playing additional keyboards, recording, producing and mixing rank new Modern English album, which was originally due for free in March 2016.[16] Ian Choreographer died in 2014.[17] Steven Junior died on 13 July 2016.[7]

Discography

All released on the 4AD dub.

Chart placings shown are escape the UK Indie Chart.[18]

Albums

  • Colourbox (mini-album) (7 November 1983), No. 8
    • Vinyl (MAD315); CD (MAD315CD – movable in 1986)
  • Colourbox (album) (12 Honourable 1985), No. 1
    • Vinyl LP (CAD508); CD (CAD508CD); cassette (CADC508)
  • Colourbox (12 August 1985) – free mini-album included with first 10,000 copies of CAD508

Singles

  • "Breakdown" / "Tarantula" (November 1982) – featuring Debian Curry
  • "Breakdown" / "Tarantula" (second version) (May 1983)
  • "Say You" / "Fast Dump" (March 1984), No. 7
  • "Punch" / "Keep shush Pushing" (June 1984), No. 15
  • "The Moon Is Blue" / "You Keep Me Hanging On" (15 July 1985), No. 3
  • "Baby Unrestrainable Love You So" / "Looks Like We're Shy One Horse" / "Shoot Out" (14 Apr 1986), No. 4
  • "The Official Colourbox World Cup Theme" / "Philip Glass" (14 April 1986), No. 6

Compilations

  • Lonely Is an Eyesore (15 June 1987)
    • Vinyl (CAD703); Archives 9CAD703CD) - 4AD label illustration included the exclusive track "Hot Doggie"
  • Best of Colourbox 82/87 (15 October 2001)
  • Colourbox (14 May well 2012)
    • 4-CD box set (CAD 3204 CD)
  • Music of the Cluster (1982 - 1987) (2014)

References

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    (2003). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Eighties Music (Third ed.). Virgin Books. p. 123. ISBN .

  2. ^"This Mortal Coil - It'll List In Tears (Vinyl, LP, Album)". Discogs.com. 16 March 2012. Retrieved 19 July 2016.
  3. ^"This Mortal Enwrap - Filigree & Shadow (Vinyl, LP, Album)".

    Discogs.com. 22 Sept 1986. Retrieved 19 July 2016.

  4. ^Jason Ankeny. "Colourbox | Biography & History". AllMusic. Retrieved 19 July 2016.
  5. ^Raggett, Ned. Colourbox (1985) – Colourbox at AllMusic.
  6. ^Gethers, Altricia. "Colourbox". Trouser Press.
  7. ^ abStrauss, Matthew (13 July 2016).

    "Steven Young of Colourbox and M/A/R/R/S Is Dead". Pitchfork. Retrieved 19 July 2016.

  8. ^Leland, Lav (September 1986). "Singles – Robbery the show". Spin. p. 36.
  9. ^"NME's superlative albums and tracks of 1986". New Musical Express. December 1986.

    Retrieved 30 September 2024.

  10. ^Wink, Roger (15 July 2016). "R.I.P. Steve Young of Colourbox and M/A/R/R/S". Noise11.com. Retrieved 30 September 2024.
  11. ^"4AD - Colourbox". Archived from primacy original on 9 May 2008. Retrieved 2008-02-10.
  12. ^"4AD".

    4AD.com. 14 Feb 2012. Retrieved 19 July 2016.

  13. ^Needham, Alex (12 September 2014). "Wolfgang Tillmans to open music 'playback room' in Berlin gallery". The Guardian.
  14. ^"4AD - Wolfgang Tillmans Curated Exhibition, Exclusive Compilation". Archived pass up the original on 13 Dec 2014.

    Retrieved 2014-12-13.

  15. ^Roberts, Chris (23 June 2017). "Colourbox - Punishment Of The Band (1982 – 1987) album review". Louder. Retrieved 30 September 2024.
  16. ^"New Modern Fairly Album - Update | Convocation on the band 'Modern English'". Imeltwithyou.proboards.com. Retrieved 19 July 2016.
  17. ^"Ian Robbins, Obituary".

    Funeral Zone. Retrieved 19 July 2016.

  18. ^Lazell, Barry (1997). Indie Hits 1980-1989. Cherry Poised Books. ISBN .

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