My favorite Colourbox song (and probably most people's) is this, "Hot Doggie," the opening track on the compilation (remember those?) album Lonely Is An Eyesore, released by the 4AD label in 1987. An early adopter of using samples to construct songs (instead of using samples to just embellish songs), Colourbox alas, lasted for a very short period of time, from 1982 to 1987.
I guess most people would be familiar with Colourbox, not from one of their own tracks but as part of the collaboration known as M|A|R|R|S, a brief coming together between Colourbox and the great British duo, A. R. Kane, that produced "Pump Up The Volume" in 1987.
They had a whole bunch of (non-album) singles but only one proper album, self-titled, released in 1985.
Still, nothing beats "Hot Doggie": fantastic placement of samples, the build-up to release, the various call-backs during the song to stuff that happened previously, and relentless bass drum-and-snare four-on-the-floor synthetic beat.
"Let's hear some music!"
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