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Brian Eno's latest soundtrack, "Top Boy (Score from the Original Series)," is set for release! The CD comes in a paper jacket and is a high-quality UHQCD! "Top Boy" is a British television crime drama series written and produced by Ronan Bennett. It depicts the lives of two young men living in a poor neighborhood of London, who make a living as drug dealers in order to achieve glory, in a realistic and stylish way. Starring Ashley Walters and Kane Robinson, who are also active as rappers in addition to acting, the series also features appearances by Michael Ward, who won the BAFTA Rising Star Award in 2020, and Little Sims, a leading UK artist who has won the Mercury Prize, MOBO Awards, and Brit Awards for Best New Artist, among others. The first two seasons aired from 2011 to 2013, and seasons 3 and 4 aired in 2019 and 2022 respectively, with Drake taking an interest and joining the production as a co-producer. To coincide with the start of the final season's streaming on September 7, 2023, an album titled "Top Boy (Score From the Original Series)," featuring a selection of tracks from all five seasons' soundtracks composed by Brian Eno, will be released on CD and LP. The CD will be a high-quality UHQCD (playable on all CD players) and will include liner notes. With the exception of two tracks included on "Film Music 1976 - 2020," released in 2020, all tracks on this album are being released for the first time. Eno provided the series' tense theme music and has been responsible for the original soundtrack of "Top Boy" since its broadcast began in 2011. Together with Mikey J, also known as Michael Assante, who provided additional music for seasons 1-3, he has created the mood and atmosphere that are essential elements of the work. The soundtrack for Season 1, currently streaming under the title "Summerhouse," won the British Academy Film Award (BAFTA) for Best Original Television Music in 2012. Eno has been composing soundtracks and music for films and television series for many years, and his deep connection to ambient music led him to write music for imaginary films that didn't actually exist in the early stages of his career. His approach to composition was inspired by Nino Rota's work on the soundtracks for Federico Fellini films, where the music was created first as a work of art in itself, rather than the composer creating music to fit every scene, and the visuals were placed on top of the music. With "Top Boy," I was given the freedom to work as I pleased from the beginning. I created the music and atmosphere, and let the filmmakers use it as they wished. I absorbed as many ideas from the film as possible, created a lot of music from it, and said, "Here you go, use it however you like." If I had written the score using the conventional Hollywood method, I would have been tempted to try to create excitement or a sense of crisis. But "Top Boy" is a story about children in terrible circumstances. So I explored not only what was happening to them in the external world, but also the inner world of the children. Much of the music is intentionally naive, simple in a way. The melodies are simple, unrefined, and not grown-up. - Brian Eno From the moment Brian began selecting music for the first season of Top Boy in 2011, we knew his score would be a rare gift to the show. Brian's approach is not dominated by specific scenes, but rather he provides music based on his own sense of how he perceives the work. Thus, his music can dominate the place, emotion, and mood that exist in the background of the images projected on screen. Based on his understanding of the work and his sense of the people who live in the world in which it is set, Brian has continued to provide hand-picked music for five seasons, always leading viewers far beyond the storyline. Like Dushane, Sally, and the streets of London, Brian's music is at the heart of Top Boy. - Charles Steele & Alasdair Flind (Cowboy Films) [Brian Eno and Soundtracks] Brian Eno has composed music for numerous films and television productions, including "Prophecy Theme" from David Lynch's "Dune," "From The Beginning" from Dario Argento's "Opera," and "Late Evening In Jersey" from Michael Mann's "Heat." Together with his younger brother Roger and Daniel Lanois, Eno created "Apollo: Atmosphere & Soundtracks," which was originally written for Al Reynert's documentary film "For All Mankind," about the moon landing. Among its tracks, "An Ending (Ascent)" is remembered for its appearance in Steven Soderbergh's "Traffic," Danny Boyle's "28 Days Later," and at the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics. Furthermore, "Deep Blue Day" will forever be remembered as the song that accompanies the legendary scene in the movie "Trainspotting" where Ewan McGregor's character dives into a toilet. In addition to "Glitterbug/Derek Jarman 1970-1986" and "For All Mankind," he has also worked on the soundtracks for Peter Jackson's "The Lovely Bones," Enrique Goldman's biographical film about the Brazilian serial killer "O Nome da Morte," Slavoj ?i?ek's documentary "The Pervert's Guide to Cinema," and Gary Hustwit's documentary about industrial design master Dieter Rams, "Rams." In terms of television work, he and his younger brother Roger were nominated for a British Academy Film Award (BAFTA) for Best Original Television Music for the music of Danny Boyle's "Mr. Wroe's Virgins." He has also contributed music to the BBC Natural World series "Hammerhead," the Francis Bacon documentary "Arena," Neil Gaiman's television series "Neverwhere," and Stuart Brand's "How Buildings Learn," which aired on the BBC.