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Colourbox Vinyl Records & Discography
Who is Colourbox? A Brief Career Overview
Welcome to the fascinating world of Colourbox, the pioneering English electronic musical group that emerged from the iconic 4AD label! Formed by the talented brothers Martyn and Steven Young, along with initially recruited vocalist Debbion Currie, Colourbox captured the essence of the deep new wave and uk post-punk movements in their experimental music. Known for their innovative use of sampling well before it became mainstream, Colourbox carved a unique niche that blended elements of R&B, dub, and industrial sounds. Their notable contribution to the 1987 hit "Pump Up the Volume," performed under the collective name M/A/R/R/S, showcased the artistic fusion of soulful rhythms and electronic beats, establishing them as true innovators of their time. Their legacy is not just in their impactful recordings but also in their connections to the vibrant vinyl culture, with several notewor
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They sample, they steal, they write (un) official World Cup themes, and Jon Lewin finds their idea of fame rather strange. Paul Spencer finds a 1963 Fender Jaguar planted in their garden.
"We're not looking for a hit single. We wouldn't mind the money, but as far as the rest of it goes, no."
How often do you hear anyone say that? How often do you hear anyone say that less than a month after they've released two 12in singles? How often do you hear anyone say that, and mean it?
I really like Colourbox, but there's a big problem here. Still, first let me tell you a bit about them, just in case you've not heard any of their excellent records: Colourbox is two musicians, brothers Martyn and Steve Young, and a singer, Lorita Grahame. They make music with synthesisers, sequencers, drum machines, occasional guitars, Lorita's cool and powerful voice, and bits of found dialogue. Their songs are a mix of funk, reggae, and rocky film music, with elements of cut-up production techn
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Gloria Grahame
ByDonald Chasein the September-October 1997 Issue
Not long before she died in 1981 at age 57, Gloria Grahame, who had acted in films signed bygd Frank Capra, Nicholas Ray, Josef von Sternberg, Vincente Minnelli, Elia Kazan, Fritz Lang, and Fred Zinnemann, demolished them all in one sweeping statement. “Those men never directed me,” she told an English stage director with whom she was currently working. “I’d go home and work on it with my mother, then komma in and shoot it, and that would be that.” If she gave credit to anyone other than her mother, a Shakespearean actress-become-Los Angeles-drama coach, it was to Bill Watts, her dialogue director on the 1947 Crossfire. A dialogue director's job is to learn lines with actors, presumably in accordance with a director’s interpretive notions, but this one apparently did much more with Grahame. Watts, she told the Brit entertainment mag Time Out in 1978, “first made me realize how to play movies. It’s thinking... Al