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no need - it is...

Caliban's Dream isn't half bad either...

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

who's whistling?? Its not Roger Whittaker is it ;)

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

no; it's his mother... :D

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Loved it. Esp the industrial part of the show, kids loved it too, I shoved them in bed after that but we watched it AGAIN the next day on red button.

I Will Kiss is an awesome tune. And when the 2 Months Off bells were dropped into Caliban's Dream right before they lit the cauldron I jumped out of the sofa and yelled "YES!!!" ... surprised I didn't wake the kids.

Topically I only just finally watched Frankenstein the night before at my local indie cinema, with Miller as the monster. Great stuff also!

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Isles of Wonder
Music Director, Rick Smith for Underworld
Associate Music Directors, Pete Cobbin, Allan Jenkins and Kirsty Whalley
Mixed by Pete Cobbin and Kirsty Whalley at Abbey Road
Music Supervisor, Mike Gillespie for Underworld.

I Still Believe - Frank Turner
Jerusalem / Flower of Scotland / Danny Boy / Bread of Heaven - Four Nations Choirs
Nimrod - LSO On Track
And I Will Kiss - Underworld feat. Dame Evelyn Glennie and the Pandemonium Drummers
Tubular Bells / In Dulci Jubilo - Mike Oldfield
Chariots of Fire - London Symphony Orchestra
Sundowner - Blanck Mass & London Symphony Orchestra
Bonkers - Dizzee Rascal & Armand Van Helden
Nimma Nimma (feat. Jaspreet Jasz) - A.R. Rahman
Heaven - Emeli Sandé
Abide With Me - Emeli Sandé
I Bet You Look Good On the Dance Floor - Arctic Monkeys
Come Together - Arctic Monkeys
Caliban's Dream (feat. Dockhead Choir, Dame Evelyn Glennie, Only Men Aloud, Elizabeth Roberts, Alex Trimble) - Underworld


Welcome – The Parade of Athletes
Produced by Lincoln Barrett and Rick Smith
Assisted by Darren Price for Underworld
Mixed by Simon Gogerly and Lincoln Barrett Mastered by Miles Showell at Metropolis Studios
Underworld are: Kris Burton, Malcolm Corbett, Steven Hall, Karl Hyde, Geoff Jukes, Anis Marks, Darren Price, Danielle Short, Rick Smith, Robin Turner.

Galvanize (Beginning) - The Chemical Brothers
Moon Watcher - High Contrast
Always Loved a Film (Instrumental) - Underworld
Dark and Long (Dark Train) - Underworld
West End Girls - Pet Shop Boys
Minneapolis (High Contrast Remix) - Underworld
Reach - High Contrast
Ghost Dance - High Contrast
Confusion the Waitress (Darren Price & High Contrast Remix) - Underworld
Traktor (feat. L) [Radio Edit] - Wretch 32
Olympians (High Contrast Remix) - F Buttons
Can't Stop This Fire - High Contrast
Moon In Water (Instrumental) - Underworld
Crocodile (High Contrast Remix) - Underworld
Where the Streets Have No Name (High Contrast Remix) - U2
For Years - High Contrast
Dirty Epic (Darren Price & High Contrast Remix) - Underworld
The Long Way Home - High Contrast
Dark and Long (Darren Price & High Contrast Remix) - Underworld
Rez (High Contrast Remix) - Underworld
Heroes - David Bowie
Galvanize (Ending) - The Chemical Brothers

Worth every penny! :)

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

Apparently Calibans Dream is at 69 in the UK singles chart after 1 day of sales!

http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/indus...07693552.story

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

just watched the opening ceremony Pandemonium and Caliban's Dream back and it works so well... the whole craziness of industry and then the silence (whistle section) for the war memories... that whole sequence took some planning - props to Danny Boyle and Rick for making it fit so well...

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No.5 in the Itunes chart (UK) pretty impressive too

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Is it just me, or does "Confusion the Waitress (Darren Price & High Contrast Remix)" have absolutely none of the original in it at all?

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Yeah, I'm having a hard time finding anything from the original in it.

Also, I don't think Confusion, Dark & Long, or Dirty Epic were actually played during the Parade.

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

What?!? :confused:

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

MK X lineup. There's gonna be a lot of people onstage at the next gig.

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

Well, they did say a couple years ago that they wanted to get new people involved with Underworld and turn the reins over to them...

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I'm sure I caught that loop from Dirty Epic, the one that comes in just after "And we all went, mental, and danced". I don't remember hearing much more of it though.

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Dark Train was definitely played

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

The BeeGee's Stayin' Alive was!

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

i struggle to hear any semblance to Confusion the Waitress in that track :)

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"Caliban's Dream" is currently number 7 on the UK Singles chart:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/update/singles

I believe this is the mid-week update, and the final chart is released on Sunday. I think this is their 2nd highest charting single ever, and their highest since TMO hit #12 on the Singles Charge in 2002.

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Also, it looks like the CD was released yesterday. The price looks to be around £10.00 everywhere.

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It would be great if they released this on vinyl... very surprised it wasn't offered

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

Down to $28 on Amazon with updated delivery maybe now on my birthday (Aug 15th). "Not Yet Shipped" Booooooo.:(


No PMs yet (fuckers) so loving the odd Youtube that doesn't get squashed:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRLNyyD0sf8
:)

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

Frankly, it's cheaper to order it on Amazon.co.uk and have it shipped from there to the U.S. (about $17 shipped), than it is to buy it on Amazon.com.

I'm not sure if this CD is going to get a US domestic release.

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Went back an was browsing the Parade of Nations part of BBC broadcast and 'Confusion the Waitress' was played over the PA starting at Kuwait and for about 3 and 1/2 minutes. Probably was when NBC decided to go to commercial.

Trying to find if the others were played.

Jason

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

Good call, cancelled on .com and ordered through co.uk. Was slightly over $18 with shipping and everything, but still at least ten bucks off! :)

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Done! Thanks for the heads up :)

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So, I went over the broadcast, and here's the actual playlist for the Parade of Nations:

1. The Chemical Brothers - Galvanize
2. High Contrast - Moon Watcher
3. Underworld - Always Loved a Film (Instrumental)
4. Underworld - Rez (High Contrast Remix)
5. Underworld - Deep Arch (Darren Price Remix)
6. Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls
7. Underworld - Minneapolis (High Contrast Remix)
8. Adele - Rolling in the Deep
9. The Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive
10. High Contrast - Strutter
11. High Contrast - Reach
12. High Contrast - Ghost Dance
13. Underworld - Confusion The Waitress (Darren Price & High Contrast Remix)
14. Wretch 32 feat. L - Traktor
15. Underworld - Dark & Long (Dark Train) (Remix)
16. Fuck Buttons - Olympians (High Contrast Remix)
17. Electric Light Orchestra - Mr. Blue Sky
18. High Contrast - Can't Stop This Fire
19. Underworld - Moon in Water (Instrumental)
20. Underworld - Crocodile (High Contrast Remix)
21. U2 - Where the Streets Have No Name (High Contrast Remix)
22. U2 - Beautiful Day
23. High Contrast - For Years
24. High Contrast - Emotional Vampire 120
25. David Bowie - Heroes
26. The Chemical Brothers - Galvanize

Obviously, there were some changes from the album order and choices. Dirty Epic and Dark & Long (and The Long Way Home) were not used. There were a few additional songs that I couldn't Shazam or SoundHound either. Because they were instrumental and in the vein of the other songs, I labeled them as unknown High Contrast songs.

As Troy McClure pointed out, Confusion the Waitress was about 3 or 4 minutes. I noticed several other tracks were longer than the album too, like Dark Train (about 2 minutes longer), Crocodile (about 1 minute longer) and others. I think the only Underworld songs we got in non-trimmed form on the album were Rez and Minneapolis.

The parade lasted 1 hour 40 minutes, and the album is 1 hour 15 minutes, so I'm sure the trims and omissions were due to time constraints (and licensing costs for non-Underworld/High Contrast songs).

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Also, I found out the album is getting a US domestic release on Decca, but not until August 28. So, I'm guessing NBC had a hand in the release. ;)

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Oh no!!! does that mean we will have merideth vierra talking through out the entire thing????

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Caliban's Dream rose to #12 this week on the UK charts.

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High Contrast confirmed on his blog that this track is called "Strutter" and should be seeing a release soon.
Thanks for having the dedication to make this list!

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Ah, that's a shame that it didn't (and probably won't) crack the top 10.


Thanks for pointing that out. Based on his comments there, it sounds like the other tracks will get releases soon, and maybe his work on a Nuxx remix too that wasn't used. Maybe we can hope for unmixed, full versions of all the Underworld tracks.

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A couple of links:

The full 3 hour and 50 minute ceremony with no commentary (but with stadium effects). Available to view 'in the UK' until January 2013.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...emony_no_comm/


For those wanting more information on the ceremony itself, here's 46 page the press briefing document to help people commentate and write about the opening ceremony as a whole:

http://www.london2012.com/mm/Documen...DE_English.pdf

Some pages (e.g. 24) appear twice. The first version was available before the event, the second after.


Alex4D

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Love it. That is all. Love IT!

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Caliban's Dream falls to # 21 on the UK Charts for the week 18th August 2012.
I can't see it peeking higher than #12 now that the Olympics are over.

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too bad
but it´s not pop or dance after all

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Closing ceremony was, er, a contrast - repeating mimed music within 40 minutes of the start - just bloody awful!

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It's not an interview with Underworld, but I caught this on the Richard Bacon / Zoe Ball podcast this weekend:

"...There's an interview with Mike Dolbear, the guy that taught 1,000 drummers to provide the heartbeat of the London 2012 Opening Ceremony, with an exclusive performance from his Pandemonium Drummers..."

The interview is split through the podcast - first part of the interview starts about 6:20, and continues at 31.40. Lots of name dropping of Rick Smith, and the Pandemonium Drummers play a live session (although it is edited for the podcast) and they talk about the process of training 1000 live drummers.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/dailybacon

Direct Link: http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/...0810-0916b.mp3

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Ugh:

http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/cal...to/id552780363

I don't know how iTunes can allow shit like this on there. This is not the first Olympics music rip-off I've seen on there either.

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On the upside the lyrics are probably easier to understand in their version...
Also found it amusing that they named every single contributing artist in their "Tribute To" section, despite the fact that the majority of their roles are probably served by a Casio keyboard here.

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Well, it did need more cowbell!;)

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_fsybCOhKJ...orecowbell.jpg