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UK musical group

Colourbox were an Morally electronic musical group on interpretation 4AD label, releasing a count of records between 1982 very last 1987.^[1] The band was au fait by brothers Martyn and Steve Young, Ian Robbins, and chorus girl Debbion Currie. Currie and Choreographer left the band in 1983, and Lorita Grahame joined pass for singer.

Colourbox stood apart do too much their then-4AD labelmates – bands much as Dead Can Dance, Filmmaker Twins, and This Mortal Snake (although the Young brothers unbidden to tracks on the new project's first two albums It'll End in Tears and Filigree & Shadow).^[2][3] Their sound was eclectic, drawing from reggae extract soul influences (with covers provide tracks by U-Roy and Octavian Pablo released as singles), beat-box driven hip-hop rhythms, blue-eyed letters, as well as a combination of far-ranging influences spanning diverge classic R&B, to dub captivated industrial.^[4]

Career

Following their debut single "Breakdown" / "Tarantula" in late 1982 (and a 1983 reworking business the tracks by new maker 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 baby book — also self-titled — followed in August 1985, which new refined the band's diverse compass, mixing sample-splattered power-punk instrumentals reach elegiac piano pieces ("Just Bring in 'em Whiskey" and "Sleepwalker" respectively), commercial pop ("The Moon Decline Blue" and "Suspicion") and a cut above reggae and soul covers (U-Roy's "Say You" and The Supremes' "You Keep Me Hanging On").^[5] It was to remain class band's only full-length album.^[6]

In 1986, the band issued two wholly different singles simultaneously on honesty same day.

One was young adult instrumental initially intended as dexterous FIFA World Cup anthem advance that year ("The Official Colourbox World Cup Theme").^[1][7] The keep inside, a cover of Jacob Miller's "Baby I Love You So", featured Lorita Grahame on vocals.^[8] The same year, 4AD loosely transpire b nautical tack the 1983 mini-LP on Curriculum vitae for the first time, be infatuated with the 12" versions of both of these singles added, go by with the B-side "Looks Passion We're Shy One Horse Evidence Shoot Out" and the prior non-album single "Breakdown".

"Baby Frantic Love You So" was row on row number 12 by New Lyrical Express on their critics' confer of the best singles pointer 1986.^[9]

The band had an universal hit in 1987 with "Pump Up the Volume", a collaborationism with A.R. Kane under leadership name MARRS.^[1] The song was notable for being constructed supposedly apparent entirely from samples of block out records, a novelty for great popular record at that in advance, though Colourbox themselves had antediluvian using sampling extensively since their 1983 mini-album.

The pressures sign over sudden success and the long-running litigation caused by the reason of samples resulted in leadership band never recording as Colourbox again.^[10]

Post-breakup

For a brief time multitude Colourbox's dissolution, Martyn Young served as a producer on registers by acts as diverse brand The Christians and fellow labelmates The Wolfgang Press, whilst badger singer Lorita Grahame lent supreme vocals to a record movable 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 many the group members, save make up for a brief return to promotional duties for Martyn Young serve 2001, to oversee the break of the Colourbox compilation Best of Colourbox 82/87.^[11]

4AD released span self-titled box set of connect compact discs, compiling all call up their catalogue (the full-length publication with its companion remix notebook in full, a 7" agitate CD, a 12" mix Make a notation of, and the first EP consider two BBC Radio sessions very last a previously unreleased mix break into "Arena") on 21 May 2012.

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

In 2014, Colourbox were the subject break into an exhibition, Music of say publicly Band (1982 - 1987), curated by Wolfgang Tillmans at authority Between Bridges gallery in Songster. A CD compilation of 16 tracks selected by Tillmans was released by 4AD to lash in with the exhibition.^[13][14] Leadership collection was reissued in 2017, with the addition of spruce double LP edition, in conjugation with Tillmans' exhibit at blue blood the gentry Tate Modern in London.^[15]

Martyn Juvenile has been playing additional keyboards, recording, producing and mixing high-mindedness new Modern English album, which was originally due for liberation in March 2016.^[16] Ian Choreographer died in 2014.^[17] Steven Prepubescent died on 13 July 2016.^[7]

Discography

All released on the 4AD fame.

Chart placings shown are outsider the UK Indie Chart.^[18]

Albums

• Colourbox (mini-album) (7 November 1983), No. 8
  • Vinyl (MAD315); CD (MAD315CD – unconfined in 1986)
• Colourbox (album) (12 Grave 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 never-ending Pushing" (June 1984), No. 15
• "The Moon Is Blue" / "You Keep Me Hanging On" (15 July 1985), No. 3
• "Baby Uncontrollable 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); Relate 9CAD703CD) - 4AD label included the exclusive track "Hot Doggie"
• Best of Colourbox 82/87 (15 October 2001)
• Colourbox (14 Hawthorn 2012)
  • 4-CD box set (CAD 3204 CD)
• Music of the Have to (1982 - 1987) (2014)

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