The dynamic score for opening ceremonies of the 2012 London Olympics — featuring new material and remixes from Underworld, Chemical Brothers, Arctic Monkeys, Frank Turner, F**k Buttons, High Contrast, U2 and more — is available digitally now via iTunes.
The full tracklisting for Isles of Wonder: Music For the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games can be found on Underworld's website and below. Listen to Underworld's "Caliban's Dream," which accompanied the lighting of the Olympic cauldron and featured Two Door Cinema Club's Alex Trimble, below as well.
The ceremonies, helmed by Danny Boyle, were under the musical direction of Underworld's Rick Smith and Karl Hyde; Smith produced Isles of Wonder: Music For the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games which will also be avalable in physical form on August 6 on Decca Records.
Said Smith of the experience: "Music is Britain's cultural heartbeat; it's a perpetual act of revolutiionary thought. From William Blake to the Beatles via the Clash and the Chemical Brothers, the soundtrack to our lives fizzes and hums all around us like a stray signal from a radio dial that your internal antenna just can't help but tune into."
Isles of Wonder tracklisting:
CD1 - Isles of Wonder
1) Frank Turner - I Still Believe
2) Four Nations Choirs - Jerusalem, Flower of Scotland, Danny Boy, Bread of Heaven
3) LSO On Track Orchestra & François-Xavier Roth – Nimrod
4)Underworld feat. Dame Evelyn Glennie and the Pandemonium Drummers - And I Will Kiss
5) Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells / In Dulci Jubilo
6) LSO - Chariots of Fire
7) Blanck Mass & LSO – Sundowner
8) Dizzee Rascal - Bonkers - Radio Edit
9) A.R. Rahman feat. Jaspreet Jasz - Nimma Nimma
10) Emeli Sandé – Heaven
11) Emeli Sandé - Abide With Me
12) Arctic Monkeys - I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor (Live)
13) Arctic Monkeys - Come Together (Live)
14) Underworld feat. Dockhead Choir, Dame Evelyn Glennie, Only Men Aloud, Elizabeth Roberts, Esme Smith and Alex Trimble - Caliban’s Dream
CD2 - Welcome
1) Chemical Brothers – Galvanize
2) High Contrast - Moon Watcher
3) Underworld - Always Loved A Film – Instrumental
4) Underworld - Dark & Long (Dark Train) (Remix)
5) Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls
6) Underworld - Minneapolis (High Contrast Remix)
7) High Contrast – Reach
8) High Contrast - Ghost Dance
9) Underworld - Confusion - The Waitress (Darren Price & High Contrast Remix)
10) Wretch 32 feat. L – Traktor
11) Fuck Buttons - Olympians (High Contrast Remix)
12) High Contrast - Can’t Stop This Fire
13) Underworld - Moon In Water (Instrumental Remix)
14) Underworld - Crocodile (High Contrast Remix)
15) U2 - Where the Streets Have No Name (High Contrast Remix)
16) High Contrast - For Years
17) Underworld - Dirty Epic (Darren Price & High Contrast Remix)
18) High Contrast - The Long Way Home
19) Underworld - Dark & Long (Darren Price & High Contrast Remix)
20) Underworld - Rez (High Contrast Remix)
21) David Bowie – Heroes
22) Chemical Brothers - Galvanize
