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

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

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

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.

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

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?

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphot...42527862_n.jpg

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

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

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

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

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

Hope Rick gets well soon! :)

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

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???

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

and everybody felt happy and glorious
what a vibe!

...and I do want to kiss :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hM0fiegRbTg

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

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

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

good article mentioning the
music in the olympics.

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

later
-1

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

How would they even know? They're two completely separate accounts.

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

...yea - I don't know. Maybe they'll make it so that I can't switch accounts again? So I'd be 'locked in' on one account?

Only thing I can figure, is if it's because I'm using the same laptop (and the same iTunes application)...

Maybe I'll try and re-download it from someone else's computer, while signed into my other account.

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

The soundtrack is available on Amazon's MP3 store now. Can the Born Dirty site set up a link to get a referral commision from them, too? Or does Amazon not offer that?

-Jason

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

Really enjoying all the music on the album. Works great as a stand alone piece for repeat listening for years to come. Will buy in CD form, too, when it comes out.

For some reason my file for 'Rez' will only play on my laptop and not on my MP3 player. Never had that happen. All other files work fine for me. Thoughts? I rarely buy stuff from iTunes, not sure where to start.

Thanks, Jason

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

This is an audience shot of the "And I will kiss" sequence, just on the telly you can't realise how much is going on! And all those people moving more or less in sync with the music. Must have been a hell of a job to coordinate this stuff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vqs2NyE72Bc

And get well soon Rick!

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

Updated with Amazon MP3 links:

Digital download: iTunes UK, iTunes US, Amazon MP3 UK, Amazon MP3 US
CD pre-order: Amazon UK, Amazon US

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

http://http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?...fiegRbTg&gl=GB

Simply breathtaking:) a modern masterpiece

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

Amazing that LOCOG let the cover image be released, given that it's the cauldron 'surprise'...

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

@Troy McClure. Check the finer details of the file. I had a problem with some of my mp3 files but I discovered when checking the file info in a tag program that the mp3's were actually mp2's. I had to convert the files to mp3 so they would play on my preferred player. However the quality really suffers when converting from one lossy format to another.

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

that's odd. it should stay exactly the same.
unless you're going from a higher bitrate to a lower one.

if you go from mp2->uncompressed or wav -> mp3
at the same bitrate. it should be the same quality.

later
-1

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

shocking that the Olympics allowed a band with the name Fuck Buttons to be on the soundtrack.

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

Already number5 in the album charts

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

How does the iTunes top albums charts work? Is it daily or for the week? On the US iTunes page, it currently says 11th, but it had got as high as 7th from when I was looking. Which is pretty impressive for what is basically a double CD of music.

-Jason

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

'
Im sorry. . whats this link supposed to be?

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

It's been number 1 on the iTunes UK Album chart for the past 2 days.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...=entertainment
http://www.examiner.com/article/olym...s-album-charts

It's just "And I Will Kiss"

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

So, interesting discovery I just made. "Caliban's Dream" is based on "Dawn of Eden" from Frankenstein, as its foundation. If you listen carefully to the choral part in the background (for example, from 2:10 to 2:40), and to the soprano part (Esme's singing, starting at 4:18 and again at 6:34), it matches "Dawn of Eden".

Elizabeth Roberts, Esme, and Rick
https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphot...93481641_n.jpg

Esme and Elizabeth
https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphot...23501347_n.jpg

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

that logic doesnt really follow, but ok

i think my other post got deleted :o

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

@Troy McClure Have you found a solution to your problem. If you have I'd be interested to know what the cause was. I've never got anything off itunes but I thought all the files were AAC. I'm going to take a wild guess and say that because they have been purchased from Itunes they are protected to play with only apple products i.e itunes, ipod, iphone etc.
@negative1 Yes it is odd but that was the problem. Can you provide a reliable online source regarding the music conversion thing. This is news to me.

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

Found an article here regarding 'Caliban's Dream' with quotes from Alex Trimble, the male vocal singing lead. Alex in particular has some positive comments for Rick:

"I'm really proud of the performance. I have so much respect for the team that put it all together. Danny always made time to sit with me one on one and go through things and see how everything was going and with Rick we worked one on one too. In the studio, on the phone, it just felt so personal. Not like something that's gone out worldwide! I'm sure it'll take a few months for the reality to fully sink in", said Alex Trimble.

http://www.music-news.com/shownews.a...&nItemID=54792


-Jason

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

No I haven't yet. I have a 120GB Zune player. All of the files minus 'Rez' transferred just fine to it. The odd part was that 'Rez' plays perfectly fine on the laptop through all the different audio players I have. I'll keep searching though for a solution.

---Jason

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

http://www.contactmusic.com/news/ric...ustion_1378004
Another article about Rick being ill. The image intrigues me, though. Was the whole thing done live, like their gigs, or is that just old photography?

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

Old photography:

http://www.contactmusic.com/photo/tr...rworld_5173280

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

I really really enjoyed the transformation of the opening ceremonies. the montage was a bit on the cheesy side, but thats okay. the music was wonderful and watching the stage transform was very impressive.

so glad Rick/UW were a huge part of this.

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

aw, poor rick. i hope he's feeling better now... and hope he gets well soon! someone (a volunteer) posted this drawing on twitter:

https://twitter.com/mikedolbear/stat...984705/photo/1

also, underworld/pricey/high contrast need to release full versions of the remixes. fantastic tracks cannot be wasted!

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

Can someone give a detailed explanation of contents included on the digital booklet (with iTunes purchase).

I am debating which version to buy, iTunes or Amazon (I can't wait for the CD release!).

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

the booklet that comes with the itunes release is a PDF with liner notes by danny boyle, rick and tracklists+thankyous from the team.

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

Is it worth it?

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

Went with iTunes.

Weirdest read in the booklet:
Underworld are: Kris Burton, Malcolm Corbett, Steven Hall, Karl Hyde, Geoff Jukes, Anis Marks,
Darren Price, Danielle Short, Rick Smith, Robin Turner.

Should we expect Steve Hall on stage dancing during an UW set now? or playing a tambourine?

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

I imagine the booklet will also be in the CD release.

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

And I Will Kiss is one of the best long form Underworld songs in years. So epic.

Discuss.